
The Kimball Art Center Begins the Design Process for a New Home in Summit County
A small Utah art centre has hired the architects behind the Tate Modern. Here is how a building brief, thirty options and two years of fundraising fit together.

A small Utah art centre has hired the architects behind the Tate Modern. Here is how a building brief, thirty options and two years of fundraising fit together.

Build a dog from circles, tilt the proportions towards the breed, then lay fur in bunches that follow the coat – a shape-first method gathered from working artists’ tutorials.

One flexible pen, one rule — thin on the upstrokes, thick on the downstrokes — and a page of drills: how brush pen calligraphy grows from first lines to graceful letters.

Why a cheap flat fee can cost an illustrator far more than it earns, and how to price the rights instead of the drawing.

Layered with paste and finished well, yesterday’s newspaper becomes trays, bowls and vases with a Victorian pedigree — elegant home decor that costs nothing but drying time.

Most beginner faces fail for the same handful of reasons. Fix the proportions first, then build features on top.

Pressure, tilt, spacing and texture do the work a bristle does by hand — here is how the settings map to the physics.

Safe, simple paper projects that build little hands with almost no preparation — and almost no cost.