Sketchbooks and there uses

I have recently come across the book ‘Graphic.’ Whilst mulling around water stones. It has opened up my mind to the importance of keeping a sketchbook even for a subject like Graphics. Where most projects are computer based. In the opening pages of the book there is a brief explanation in to why sketchbooks should be an important process to coming up with an idea and creating it.  The piece of text explains why we have sketchbooks and our attachments to them.

Maybe it is the appeal of the smell, the clean crisp pages or the vast amount of possibilities this one book can turn into.  Designers are compelled towards a new sketchbook. They are practical and useful and like a diary to a writer a sketchbook is filled with thoughts and loves of a designer.

The text goes on to say “A sketchbook is a physical manifestation of unfettered thoughts” and whether a sketchbook is cluttered or neat and pristine, what matters the most is that the information is clear and consist. Many factors can affect our minds and how we view the world, such as the government, political parties and religion. But the writer of the text says that we shouldn’t let that influence what we put on paper and we should always go beyond the boundaries.

Overall sketchbooks are portrayed in the text to be an extension to a designer in both a physical and mental form. They serve the purpose to make an idea possible and that those ideas shouldn’t be controlled by anyone.