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AutoCAD 2011 Textbook Published
Douglas Seidler has revised his successful AutoCAD textbook for AutoCAD 2011:
Digital Drawing for Designers: A Visual Guide to AutoCAD 2011
explores the relationship between hand drawing and digital drawing.
With AutoCAD 2011, Autodesk enhanced the user interface and improved many drawing functions including annotative dimensions and text. Neither simplistic nor exhaustive, this revised edition of Digital Drawing for Designers teaches the latest version of AutoCAD by relating to what architects and interior designers understand best: the visual world.
more: books.dougseidler.com
Seidler to present at the IDEC 2010 annual conference in Atlanta
Douglas Seidler will present two abstracts:
The MaterialWiki Project: A Call for Collaboration
The Role of Building Information Modeling (BIM) In Education and Practice (Floyd & Seidler)
at the Interior Design Educators Council 2010 Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA - March 2010.
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Hand Drawing for Designers Textbook Published
Hand Drawing for Designers:
Communicating Ideas through Architectural Graphics
by Douglas R Seidler & Amy Korté
Despite an increased reliance on digital media, hand drawing remains a powerful tool in conceptual design. Hand Drawing for Designers: Communicating Ideas through Architectural Graphics will show you how to use hand drawing to explore multiple design responses quickly and intuitively and to develop a successfully responsive design solution.
The text approaches the act of drawing as a communication tool, valued within design firms for conceptual design, design development, and client presentations. The concepts and methods in the text build, progressing from an introduction to drawing rationale to two- and three-dimensional drawing techniques and presentation drawings.
Designed to strengthen the user’s understanding of visual representation and technical drawing by visually teaching, Hand Drawing for Designers provides the skills for translating three-dimensional ideas into two-dimensional drawings to effectively explore and communicate your design ideas.
more: books.dougseidler.com
Seidler Joins ID Faculty at Marymount University
Douglas Seidler joined the Interior Design department at Marymount University as an Assistant Professor in the Fall 2009 semester. Seidler is working with the current faculty to expand the Interior Design department to the University's new Reston Center which he will direct in the 2010-11 academic year.
Seidler left the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University where he taught since 2003. He was also adjunct and advisory faculty at the Boston Architectural College during the same period.