Sketch books

As a design student, your sketch book becomes your best friend, your worst enemy, you favorit and most important tool, you workspace, your diary and your way of communicating what is in your brain... 

But it does not come naturally, it's a skill to develop over the years. No one can teach you how to do it, because you have to find your own style and your own way of doing it.

At Kolding School of Design, we spend a lot of time dwelling in the proces, developping the idea and the concept, researching and mind mapping our thoughts. We appreciate an aesthetic and tactile sketch book, using different papers, clips, tapes and pens to give it a unique and personal flavour. 

Not all people appreciate the work of a wellmade sketch book. This week I was met by the phrase: "You like researching alot, it might be a bit too much!" I was shocked! I have never been met by a teacher who told me that I was doing too much process work. But as he said, "I like doing it too, but sometimes it seems a bit superfluous as you're only really doing it for yourself." - and he is right. As long as I'm in school, my process work and my sketch books will be looked at and marked by teachers, but as soon as I'm out of here, no one will care...

But then I figure, no one expects their diary to be read, but that doesn't keep them from writing it! So I'll keep doing my thing, trying to communicate with my brain, giving us a language that will speak out loud, and hopefully make a bit more room up top for new and improved ideas.