ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines exercises encourage the student to value drawing for its complete benefits – generating ideas applicable in future design work. Drawing for the purpose of discovering ideas does require time and effort expended in experimental drawing and diagramming. The process builds up one's internal storehouse of design possibilities for future project work. The examples and exercises provided instruct how to practice design drawing, initially free of real-site or real-project constraints and variables. The chapter emphasizes how to build the background and resources for new design ideas. It prepares the groundwork essential to shape imagination, invention, and inspiration. The chapter provides a map to design discovery, plotting a personalized path to design innovation. By practicing the exercises, students can able to demonstrate increased agility when using drawing and diagramming to investigate design themes. Drawing and design explorations address considerations that are specific to a project.
