As if pulled up on an imaginary shear, exploded views provide an insight into the inside of devices, machines and systems. They illustrate relationships clearly and help everyone to find,…
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All technical illustrators deal with projections to represent 3D objects on a plane. They apply standardized projections such as isometry and dimetry, or work in free projections and vanishing point…
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) is known for many things; painter, sculptor, architect, anatomist, mechanic, engineer and natural philosopher. What our branch loves him for is his technical illustrations.
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In addition to the subjective and collective perception of colors, the objective ability of each individual observer to process colors plays a role.
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When using colors in technical communication, we must keep in mind the interpretation of colors in different cultures.
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Sometimes it pays to think outside the box, in this case, outside the rice bowl. What we see there is a style guide for technical documents in Chinese and for…
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The use of signal words has often been discussed at conferences, consultations or simply between colleagues.
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Technical illustrations are becoming more and more efficient. Views are quickly generated with the 3D CAD model. But what to do when human-machine interactions make it necessary to represent that…
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Technical illustrations are supposed to convey content (messages). Graffiti should also convey messages (content). In a good technical illustration, the content can be understood by the addressee depending from the…
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Manuals often hide secrets that we don't see or that we forget. We discover these secrets later when we take a second look at the online help, or someone shows…
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