Computer-aided design (CAD) is the go-to method for designing most of today's physical products. Engineers use CAD to turn 2D ...

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Full disclosure: [Óscar] isn’t nine now, but he was in 1988 when he wrote LOCS, a drawing program in Z80 assembly modeled after Logo. You can see a demo of the system in the video below. You might ...

Adobe recently announced Photoshop Sketch and Illustrator Draw, two great free drawing apps available on iPad, will be removed from the Apple App Store (and Google Play) on July 19. Luckily, the apps ...

The Ohio State Department of Landscape Architecture has full access to cutting edge computer design programs, but the department’s graduates may be behind the times when it comes to looking for a ...

Inkscape is a fun, free and very powerful vector drawing program that runs on all major computer platforms: Linux, Macintosh and Windows. This program can give you endless hours of enjoyment, even if ...

He was a lead designer of the computers that cemented IBM’s dominance for decades. He later wrote a book on software engineering that became a quirky classic. By Steve Lohr Frederick P. Brooks Jr., ...