The use of drawings and diagrams to explain a design.

Resources

marcusperspective.com marker-based representations that are full of life and vitality.

www.youtube.com/c/LearnUpstairs features easily accessible web-based tutorials that focus on digital techniques that enhance and facilitate image-making.

Representation is the most important communication tool that an interior designer has. The representation of a project can enhance the ideas about design intent, facilitate decisions about spatial ideas and materials, and through objective drawing methods describe aspects of a project that otherwise cannot be visualized. Representation is much more than a drawing that describes the design of a project; it embodies the intent of a project, and can be much more interpretive and subjective, showing the user’s point of view. In essence, representation is a visual narrative that explains the intent of the design concept.

There are many online communities and online tutorials that can help explain the function of representation in design, as well as both the software used and the skills and techniques that a designer needs to develop. These range from the creation of photo-realistic imagery, to other representations that use drawing conventions to explain the features integral to a design. These drawings use transparent and exploded diagramming techniques to explain a project to an audience.

In addition to renderings and delineated drawings, the designer should consider using illustrations that are more abstract, such as collages, materials compositions, or hand diagrams and sketches, all of which can represent the mood and the impressions of a design project.