Progress is good, but we need to make sure that we’re
progressing in the right direction. Our fundamental skills and
the craft of design have started to take a back seat. Using the
right tools and techniques is certainly an important part of
design. But do our tools and resources make us better designers?
Taking a close look at the current state of design, we can see
that sometimes modern design tools and processes do more harm
than good. Please note that in preparing this article, we
presented basic questions to designers, from beginner to expert,
in an unscientific poll. Close to 600 designers participated.
Draw Comics The Marvel Way As a teenager, I loved comic books:
the art, the stories, the super-powers I wished I had. I
remember the point when I went from reading and enjoying comics
to wanting to create them. I became obsessed with being able to
draw exactly like the great comic book artists of that time,
people like Jim Lee. Taking books like How to Draw Comics the
Marvel Way out of the library was li