As a designer, you need to retain strong, hand-drawn, personal art in your drawings. Otherwise, you risk being isolated and diminished by CAD operators over time. If the world sees your design work through CAD drawings, your contribution appears to have been worked out by the machine and a machine operator is cheaper than a designer. It's happening all too often. The visual product of the recent building boom in th U.S. is a clanging alarm. You can do three things: Expand the quantity and quality of your pre-cad drawings, and tune-up any CAD output yourself to re-establish your mark on i... [ read more about ColorCaps 2006 >> ]