Revisiting handwriting
I’ve decided to revisit handwriting. I happened upon a recent post on Jason Santa Maria’s blog regarding his picking up using a sketchbook more, and with his inspiration I’m giving it a try. To quote Jason,
“Sketchbooks are not about being a good artist, they’re about being a good thinker.”
While I don’t fancy myself a designer by any stretch, I do find concepts easier to understand by seeing them visually (as most people do). I like to organize my thoughts, communicate system designs, or diagram process flow using mind mapping programs or Visio, but the use of the technology sometimes gets in the way of my brainstorming process.
I particularly like a quote from the Sketch wikipedia article:
Sketching sharpens an artist’s ability to focus on the most important elements of a subject [...].
So I too have decided to start handwriting more, sketchbooking if you will. In my case, it’ll be more words than pictures or diagrams.
For additional inspiration, Michael Nobbs posts a lot of links to sketchbooks and related articles on his twitter stream.
