Rick Bartholomew

author of "Design Process Hand Sketching for Interiors"

February 4, 2014

Rick Bartholomew is a Registered Oklahoma Interior Designer with 35 years of practicum experience in residential, commercial, and furniture design. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Science in Interior Design from Oklahoma State University. His area of specialization is furniture design and various methods of visual illustration drawing techniques. He holds ownership of a copyrighted furniture collection inspired by Native American history and culture. Rick was a design consultant for a national retail fixture and custom furnishings manufacturer and continues to conduct sketching and color rendering workshops across the country. Professor Bartholomew's passion, in addition to furnishings design, is dedicated to teaching students and practitioners the art and necessity of hand-sketching techniques and color marker and watercolor rendering illustrations. He also strives to foster the importance of quality visual presentation composition and information graphics and is personally inspired by Native American cultures, the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Georgia O'Keeffe, Nicolai Fechin, Art Deco and contemporary design. Professor Bartholomew lives in Tulsa and has been previously tenured at OSU during his 18 years of teaching experience. He hopes to publish additional books on presentation techniques and computer-aided construction documents for interior architecture millwork, built-in furnishings, and custom furniture for design students, educators, and the practitioner.

The intent of the book is to develop student hand-sketching skills to enhance their basic knowledge of drawing techniques to use throughout the educational "design process." The text is also intended to be a visual resource to aid the design student in visual presentation technique enhancements for various types of illustrations needed to convey design concepts. The practice of hand-sketched concept presentations is still viewed as important design process building blocks prior to final computer-generated documents. Hand-sketching techniques for building plans, elevations, sections, 3-dimensional illustrations, millwork and construction details are covered in the book in addition to an important issue of initial design processes of bubble diagramming, block and space plans. Information graphics, delineations, and visual composition are also topics addressed to enhance the visual communication of preliminary design concepts. The final chapter (Ideation,Chapter 10) is a series of copy-right free line drawings for students to explore their skill building through practice exercises referred to within each chapter. The main emphasis is placed on step-by-step line drawing complexity to meet the needs of the viewer to convey the level of comprehension required to adding quick applications of color to enhance final visual compositions.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2014-honorees/rick-bartholomew

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