I read Doug Stowe’s blog regularly. There’s a pretty good size gap between his work and mine, but what he has to say is always interesting and he says it in a way that both informs and entertains.
His July 4th post is a good example of why I read his blog. In a very small amount of space, he sets in motion a number of ideas, any one of which is worth exploring:
For example, the part of a technical drawing that he notices, that he feels is indicative of some kind of formal training isn’t the representation of the object to be built, it’s the lettering and the use of call-outs (or leaders). Drafting is a language with its own conventions and syntax, and this is not the first time that I’ve noticed that the text portions seem more exotic than the representation portions.
For example, the casual assumption that the highest form of recycling is reuse, and the related assumption that the best way to reuse garbage is to make something out of it.
For example, the value of planning. He’s working on an 8-page article – which is something I would dive into without much forward thinking and then rewrite a half-dozens times to make work – and has a full page of outline. A ratio of 1:8 for planning to final product is fantastic, in that it represents real thought about how the result should represent the thoughts of the writer.
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