Shelby Putnam Tupper is founder and creative director of Shelby Designs Inc., a small-but-mighty, full-service, customer-obsessed design consultancy.

One rule of lean design is that you don't reinvent "wheels." If a component exists, use it. SmartDraw V7 software accommodates this idea with hundreds of already-drawn components that users drag and ...

It's not a pretty picture. U.S. art students spend so much time toying with computer graphics these days that many wind up without needed drawing skills, university instructors say. Students are more ...

I reviewed the best digital art software and the best drawing software for Mac, Windows, Linux, and mobile devices. What I'm looking for from each of them is plenty of brushes, tools, and a simple ...

With the aid of intuitive, user-friendly landscape design software, exterior architects and designers can easily streamline the time-consuming practices that threaten to bog down projects. No matter ...

US art students spend so much time toying with computer graphics these days that many wind up without needed drawing skills, university instructors say. Students are more comfortable manipulating ...