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The blog will serve as a collection space for a variety of musings and observations of the world around us...sketches, drawings, photos, images and videos...intended to be shared and to stimulate thought and inspiration...douglas wittnebel

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Thursday, May 9, 2013

OAK Gate 28 painting

Oakland Gate 28, looking to the north, foggy skies, and a long four section connection to the Southwest Airlines flight to Seattle...painted with adobe ideas app on ipad version...

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Creation without Fear, notes from the talk

Our design meeting in Seattle was full of events, discussions and presentations.  One of the most interesting and energetic talks was from Brian Murphy from XBox, and he woke the morning group with a thoughtful and fascinating look at creating, innovating, discovering and more.  Here are my diagram/capture notes.
 

Monday, April 29, 2013

Seattle and the space needle

I was in Seattle for two days for meetings.
...what must have been a magical moment in 1962, when the Space Needle opened and the first visitors took in the views from the top, painted with adobe ideas on ipad...

Monday, April 22, 2013

earth day 2013

earthday2013 by douglaswittnebel
earthday2013, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.
43 years ago today, the first Earth Day was an event for teaching and learning about the blue and green sphere we live upon...

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Salt Lake City gate D7

Stopover at SLC, gate D7, view of the snow capped peaks and tumbled cumulus clouds

Sunday, April 14, 2013

The big "G" in a collection of No. 2 pencils...

A collection of No. 2 pencils have gathered together to form a large Gensler "G", part of a group show in our design office...

Monday, April 1, 2013

Big Data Blog Post

 
My blog post on the Big Data subject is now live on GenslerOn and worth a quick trip to the site for an enjoyable read.  Illustrations and diagrams were completed in adobe ideas...

Monday, March 25, 2013

Drawing mash with digital and wall and analog...

 
A video mixture or mash of different drawing techniques including wall drawing, digital drawing, iPad, apple tv, and hand drawing...
 
 

Friday, March 15, 2013

a sign for Big Data........

I am working on a short article about the use of the term, Big Data, and what it might mean for those of us in the technology and design business world...Here is one of the early title illustrations.

Friday, March 8, 2013

Much ado about Yahoo!

These days, most of the talk about mobility and alternate work and telecommuting have taken a side aisle to the recent announcements at Yahoo! about the staff returning to the home base.  These days around the world, nearly every knowledge worker is a mobile worker. Some workers are more mobile than others, but we know that all workers can benefit from the increased agility of doing work tasks and assignments at any site or within any geographical context...

Thursday, February 21, 2013

upside downton abbey

Drawing on the world of public television and English tea cups and favorite series of some of my friends, here is a sketch view of the upside down world of Downton Abbey...

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Design Local SAN FRANCISCO



I was the sixth member of a design team for the Mannington carpet 24 design local project.  We had a great time and the results of our efforts are now on the interent...

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

SuperBowl unplugged

The weekend of the SuperBowl, and the memorable 2nd half, and the more memorable electrical outage, providing some spark and energy to the 49 er football team...Who pulled that plug?

Monday, January 14, 2013

drawing on the wall in the year of the snake

drawingonthewall3 by douglaswittnebel
drawingonthewall3, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.
kicking off the new year of the snake with a snap shot pic of my drawing on the wall late last year...more wall drawings to come this year, and hopefully an interactive wall drawing system will be developed...

Via Flickr:
kicking off the new year of the snake with a snap shot pic of my drawing on the wall late last year...more wall drawings to come this year, and hopefully an interactive wall drawing system will be developed...

Monday, December 31, 2012

2013, year of the snake

Final post of the year, a painting card study for the new year, 2013, year of the snake...created with ink pad app on iPad...

Friday, December 21, 2012

Monday, December 3, 2012

Building Energy Modeling Study

 
 
 
As a kick off to the month of December, a posting of a recent building energy modeling study designed and created on the iPad with the use of adobe ideas...with a nod to the classic Beaux Arts ball...

Monday, November 19, 2012

Drawing on the wall, drawing on the digital screen

Drawing on the wall scenario in the conference room at the Gensler office in San Ramon, California...I am looking at some new ways to blend wall drawing techniques with digital screen imaging through mediascape...current topic of exploration is ways of working, or workstyles in the office of the future...

Friday, November 9, 2012

Meeting in Houston, Texas...Gensler


Once a year, the Principals of Gensler gather for one big super meeting.  This year the event took place in Houston, Texas, and the drawing above captures the events, locations, food, drinks and people over the three days...this was created in adobe ideas, ipad version...

Grand Canyon Sketches 2009

Grand Canyon Sketches 2009
a selection of sketches from the Grand Canyon