{"id":549,"date":"2006-01-13T09:47:41","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T14:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=549"},"modified":"2006-01-16T21:12:35","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T02:12:35","slug":"all-dressed-up-and-nothing-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"All Dressed Up And Nothing To Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick pointer to Ethan Leander Timm&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Presenting Systems<\/em>&#8221; article (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgarchitect.com\/news\/newsfeed.asp?nid=3027\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>) over on CG Architect. Initially I was taken in by the first paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Potentially, photorealistic architectural presentations may confuse an audience more than clarify. By implicitly claiming to look &#8220;real&#8221;, they could actually hinder some creative conversation between architect, client, and the general public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With the over-emphasis on tools and technical abilities these days, newly-minted designers seem to be forgetting what their job really is: to be creative. They are not and nor should they aspire to be computer\/software technicians. Hence, I thought the article was going to be about that topic. My mistake.<\/p>\n<p>The article is really one big technical explanation and example of how to use a variety of software tools to present what seems to me to be a final presentation (don&#8217;t ask me what it is they really have to discuss after one of these intricate presentations; if an Industrial Design project gets to this level, most of the discussion is complete). That&#8217;s cool. And it&#8217;s a neat article. But I&#8217;ll trade this one for a nice write-up explaining why industrial designers should be concentrating more on Creative Thinking than Technical Skills. Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick pointer to Ethan Leander Timm&#8217;s &#8220;Presenting Systems&#8221; article (Link) over on CG Architect. Initially I was taken in by the first paragraph: Potentially, photorealistic architectural presentations may confuse an audience more than clarify. By implicitly claiming to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=549\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}