Countless great ideas have started out as napkin sketches. Send us your best napkin sketch and win a big prize (or at least have it published on the English Page).
Imagine Picasso sketching the silhouette of a beautiful woman in a Paris café. Or entrepreneur Rollin King, who used the back of a bar napkin to sketch a business idea – a simple triangle connecting Dallas, Houston and San Antonio – that would ultimately become the world’s most profitable airline – Southwest. Or ever seen the first sketches of Walt Disney’s Space Mountain? That’s right, all true stories of successful napkin sketches. As it turns out, there’s a way we can all become proficient napkin sketchers to express and set our visual thoughts free.
And so it was that I recently found myself pitching an idea to some friends over dinner at the Aula. The handiest communication device I had was a ‘Sodexho’ napkin, which I enthusiastically proceeded to sketch my idea on while talking. The sight of napkin and pen drew my audience closer to see what I was drawing. This is how the napkin sketch shown here came to be. AS the idea of my napkin sketch had sparked some interest, I decided to explore it further, only to find out that other napkin sketches had already been made famous.
My sketch shown here is about a mobile phone application: a virtual mouse for the real world that allows a user to click on a building and get information about it. The bottom of the sketch shows a virtual bullet that is fired when a user clicks in the direction of a building. Each numbered step on the sketch tracks the path of this virtual bullet until it hits a building, the point at which coordinates are looked up and relevant information is returned to the user (e.g. a webpage). The upper part of the sketch shows a user who is having dinner at Aula and ‘clicks’ on the library to see at what time it closes during exams.
After about twenty napkins and many baffled looks from the Aula cashiers and my friends, my napkin masterpiece was finished. I then decided to find out more about napkin sketches.
My starting point for researching napkin sketches was a Youtube clip of Dan Roam’s ‘Authors
So now we would like to get you – TU Delft student – involved in the fun by inviting you to join our great napkin sketch contest. All you got to do is send us your best napkin sketch (preferably on the back of a ‘Sodexho’, but we accept other brands). Scan and email your napkin sketches to d.mcmullin our limit is one napkin per person.
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