tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26414854160940900422012-01-30T15:39:31.289-08:00SKETCHING is about getting ideas out fast and without fuss while GRIDS provide structure. Sketching on grids get ideas out fast without looking like a total mess. This blog is about testing out sketches (ideas, drawings, designs, theories) on a structure (Blogger). Mostly I'll blog about urban design, downtown Jacksonville and new media.Dennis Enguerrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02742939012651640690noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2641485416094090042.post-57074395943534588472010-06-24T21:51:00.000-07:002010-06-24T21:51:08.695-07:00

I was very excited to watch the Urban Jacksonville Weekly podcast live tonight. The guests were Dr. Wayne Wood of RAP (Riverside Avondale Preservation) and Steve Lovett of  ELM (Ervin Lovett Miller). Most of the hour and a half show dealt with downtown Jacksonville development and ELM's architectural designs for the Laura Street Trio. Hopefully Steve Lovett wasn't too annoyed with my question

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Here's a quiz for you. Can you guess what three buildings are depicted in the image above? The answers are at the end of this blog post. You probably know what businesses are housed in these garish buildings even though they've been motion blurred. This post isn't intended to be some diatribe against the fast food industry. Jaimie Oliver (TED Prize) and Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me) have that

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I've been playing with an economy of action in painting. Less flourish, less color, less depth. Not necessarily in a Ludwig Mies van der Rohe sort of "less is more" but a way to find richness in other design elements like texture and composition. I limited the palette to a cobalt blue, yellow ochre and red oxide. All the objects were essentially white. It's surprising to see how much color exists

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People of Jacksonville. There is plenty of parking downtown. I submit for you as evidence. Even if you're too cheap (or poor like me) to pay for a garage, you can walk two or three blocks to a meter after 6pm or on the weekends, and park for free. Don't tell me it's too far to walk you walk either because the parking lot at the town center is several blocks long as well and you don't seem to mind

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In an article from EU Jacksonville, Joey Marchy, Co-Chair of AIGA Jacksonville, misses an opportunity with an argument made about the following dialogue.[…]“Graphic Design in the city will continue marching forward, elevate the city in ways we haven't experienced” To which a reader responds,[…]“What, nicer ads being put up?” Graphic Design or Visual Communications as some call it, can

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With summer in full swing it's the season for outdoor markets like the Jacksonville Farmers Market, the Riverside Arts Market (RAM) and my personal favorite Art Walk sponsored by the Downtown Jacksonville. There is so much great stuff out there being produced by homegrown talent. Sadly browsers aren't always being converted into buyers. So let go back to school for a second and learn

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A new and improved Laura street is coming with wider sidewalks and the promise of foot traffic for downtown business. Let's imagine that vibrant city street to be. But first, play George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue on your iPod, YouTube, or your brain if you remember the tune (United Airlines uses it in all their commercials if that helps). That's the sound of a bustling progressive city. The

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Duval County Public Schools produces some pretty smart kids, I used to sit next to them at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and Stanton College Preparatory (my smarts were more modest). Some of them were bona fide geniuses. When these students graduate high school they go on to get degrees from the best colleges and universities in the country. But where do they go after they college? I

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Planners and architects love talking about urban infill as one of the many cures to suburban sprawl. RAM, Riverside Arts Market is a great response to that very issue. It's about the underside of this bridge, the west side of the Fuller Warren that makes this market so exciting. Yes, it's activated by the artists, vendors and visitors, it's planned by the city and the DOT, but the placing the

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