Monday, January 30, 2012

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Edit DWGs free online. No software needed


AutoCAD WS is a web app which provides a simple way for you to edit and share AutoCAD drawings from anywhere using a web browser on a PC or Mac. Learn more here. Click here to sign-in to your account.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Free Moleskine App for IPhone & iPad


The official Moleskine® App for iPhone and iPad allows you to express your creativity through text, images and sketches. Pick a classic Moleskine notebook paper style, create a new thought and start to type or draw choosing amongst different colors and sizes. Free Download here.

Friday, January 27, 2012

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Free Photoshop Express Apps From Adobe


Photo by Kento Mizuno (shot with a Canon 7D, 70-200 mm lens).
The Photoshop Express Editor app is for retouching pictures. Features include  cropping and rotating, fixing red-eye and exposure, changing saturation and Touchup. Adjustments include white balance, sharpen and soft focus It is clean and easy to use if you’ve even basic experience with any type of graphics editor. Photoshop.com is free with 2GB of storage available to everyone.

American Book of Type Styles Free Online


American Type Foundry's 1912 Type Specimen book is a complete catalogue of printing machinery and printing supplies published in 1912 by American Type Founders Company. Now is available here.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

David Hockney's iPad Art



In the winter of 2008, David Hockney bought an iPhone, and began to draw on it with his thumb, using an App called Brushes.
In early 2010, when the iPad was launched, he quickly moved up to this larger tablet computer, and the prolific production of digitally-aided drawings has continued till now.
To learn more about his last exhibition in the Royal Academy of Arts click  here.  
David Hockney drawing on iPad here

Architectural Magazine Free Online


Click here to Free Download Architectural Drawings by Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, Diebedo Francis Kere, Ábalos&Herreros, Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma, Rem Koolhaas...

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Smart Tourism for Smart Cities


Madrid & Barcelona Flickr Tourism Indicator is a new tool to measure the impact of tourism over cities. To learn more click here.

The indicator is an example of the use of Data Analysis in Architecture. Among various software tools used in data analysis you can find C, C++, Perl, Python, Unix shell, R, Matlab, SAS, SPSS, Excel, databases, Hadoop etc.  Click here to find information about R free software, the most popular one. 

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Adobe InDesign CS5 Classroom in a Book


Click here to see the Official Adobe InDesign Book

Guggenheim Offers Free Books Online


The Guggenheim Museum has posted 65 art catalogues online for free reading, including works about Alexander Calder, Evard Munch, Vasily Kandinsky, Mark Rothko, Josef Albers, Francis Picabia, Paul Klee, Francis Bacon and many others. 
You can download all them too in multiple formats including PDF, EPUB, Kindle and text iterations here.

Friday, January 20, 2012

Kit House Wins Talentos Design 2011


EPS Past Students Daniel Mayo and Álvaro Figueruelo wins Talentos Design 2011 Competition for their Kit House.
To watch the winner video click here or visit VivoArquitectura.
Kit House under construction here.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Grasshopper Intermediate


To watch Grasshopper Intermediate Video Tutorials click here
To watch Grasshopper Basic Video Tutorials click here

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Are you new to Mac?


This video tutorial will help you learn more about your Mac one step at a time. If you learn your Mac, you'll love it. Enjoy!

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Daylight Long Exposure Photographs


Philip McKay is specialised in black and white fine art. Filters play a big part in his photography and for long exposures he uses the ndx400 filter and the ndx1000 filter with a exposure time of three minutes or more. Lee neutral density graduated soft filters are also used for shorter exposures. To see more photos click here.

Daytime Long Exposure Photograph Tutorial here 

Nigh-time Long Exposure Photograph Video Tutorial here

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Revit Architecture Tutorial Videos


To watch the video tutorials click here
Revit Architecture and Revit Structure Free Download for EPS students here

Maya & Quick Time Movie in After Effects


This tutorial shows you how to create a simple render in Maya, and how to import the image sequence into After Effects to make a Quicktime movie.

Maya Free Download for EPS Students here

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Arial vs Helvetica

































Here’s a graphic showing the difference between Arial and Helvetica. Learn more here

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Friday, January 6, 2012

From 2D to 3D using Photoshop & After Effects


Using the Vanishing Point Exchange with Adobe Photoshop you can create very believable 3D movements from quite simple 2D digital photographs like thisIt’s a pretty easy process. To watch a video tutorial click here.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Rendering with Sketchup & Photoshop

Tutorials to create a Daytime and Night rendering by exporting images from Sketchup to Photoshop.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

What's BIM Technology?


BIM (Building Information Modeling) is not a software but an information based system that improves how project get designed.
When carrying out architectural designs through BIM, you create a 3D model introducing architectural items such walls, columns, beams, windows, doors or stairways instead of lines. Each of the items is saved in a different layer, allowing you to export structural elements or other facilities (plumbing, electricity or wastewater systems) to make easy the work of other professionals or  the use of peripheral software which support BIM applications.

There are currently many commercial applications using BIM Technology such as Autodesk Revit Architecture, Graphisoft Archicad, Nemetschek AllPlan, Gehry Digital Project, Nemetschek Vectorworks, Autodesk Revit Structure or CypeCAD.

Monday, January 2, 2012

How to Build a 3D Printer


To watch the video, click here
EPS Workshop: How to Build a 3D Printer
This automatic 3D printer makes plastic objects based on tridimensional designs. MakerBot hosts an online international community called Thingiverse, a collaborative repository of designs for 3D printing and other DIY processes where users can post files, document their designs, and collaborate on open source hardware. The site is a collaborative repository for design files used in 3D printing, laser cutting services, and other DIY manufacturing processes.