Drawing for Designing

This paper distinguishes between the type of drawing useful for making pictures and the type of drawing useful for designing. It describes a generative method for the sequential construction of complex images from simple geometric forms. These images are subsequently transformed into representations of some meaningful artefact with further enhancement of their visual complexity. This procedure has been found useful in the teaching of the art of design, and the author argues that its usefulness could be extended to composition even in technological subjects.