Through the Interface

Creating the AutoCAD 2019 brand imagery

For the latest release of AutoCAD a new set of imagery was created. This is the first major evolution of the AutoCAD product brand in several years: our Brand Strategy & Design group recently shared some material about the work they do that I thought would be of interest to readers of this blog. Many thanks to Sabrina Humphreys and Bonnie Cha for contributing the content for this post. The last major redesign happened for the AutoCAD 2014 product family, and was used until AutoCAD 2018. Here’s what the team said about this effort (I’ll share their words verbatim... Read more →

Fun with multi-touch and Alias Sketch for AutoCAD

Over the holiday season I bought myself an external 21.5” LCD multi-touch screen from Albatron. I’d been meaning to play around with multi-touch technology (on a full PC rather than a smartphone) and the arrival of Alias Sketch for AutoCAD 2010 on Autodesk Labs seemed like the perfect opportunity. AutoCAD doesn’t currently have in-built multi-touch support – and therefore neither does the version of Alias Sketch that works inside it – but at least the single-touch capabilities of the screen would give me the chance to flex a few of my (admittedly somewhat atrophied) artistic muscles. To get started... Read more →

Visit to SaloneSatellite at Milan Design Week 2009

As those of you following me on Twitter may know, I spent Monday morning at Milan Design Week. I had a couple of reasons for being in Milan at this time. Firstly, my grandmother now lives there, so I spent Sunday evening (the evening of her birthday) with her and my Milan-resident family. The second reason was Milan Design Week. In recent weeks I’ve been in touch with a Swedish designer, Staffan Holm, who I knew would be exhibiting at SaloneSatellite during this year’s Milan Design Week. SaloneSatellite is the general-admission (i.e. it’s free to get in) section of... Read more →