Services
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Architectural
Rendering
Our ability to consistently deliver quality, hand-crafted imagery has earned trust from our clients. We believe in enjoying the process and being a pleasure to work with. The passion for our craft is reflected in the quality of the work.
Design
Charrette
It is our goal to serve our clients by helping visualize their concepts and to be an integral part of the design team. We strive to understand the essence of each project, and reinforce that message or story through artfully crafted illustrations.
Education
and Demos
We’ve established our illustration studio to better serve our clients' needs, and also to grow as artists. We work with the intention of creating evocative imagery that will bring life and vibrancy to the design.
Depiction, LLC is an illustration studio offering architectural renderings based in traditional media. Serving as one of only a few traditional media studios in the country, our artists work hand-in-hand with design professionals, developers, cities, and other organizations to tell the story of their projects.
Our artists have over three decades of experience, which allows us to identify and craft the visual narrative and present it through artful, engaging imagery. We pride ourselves in our ability not only to serve as an architectural visualization service, but to collaborate as part of the design team, inventing architecture and conceptualizing the public realm.
The illustration process has evolved into one of flexibility, efficiency, and collaboration. Our expertise in traditional media has provided our artists the ability to tailor technology into a digital work flow which is intended to reflect the qualities of traditional media. This allows us to deliver hand-crafted visuals, both quickly and economically, in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
Architectural
Rendering Services
We transform simple 3d computer models into fully articulated and rendered illustrations.
Our workflow is collaborative and provides key review points for client input and feedback. Adjustments to building design and overall intent are infused into the drawing process.
Many clients provide a basic SketchUp model. Photos of architectural style and intention are also provided to direct the invention of architecture. The following two projects are great examples of how we are able to “fill in the blanks” on a project. Our ability to collaborate and participate as part of the design team is perhaps one the essential service we provide. We aren't simply tracing a completed design, but participating in creating the architecture design.
Title: Hazelwood Green
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Client: Remake Group
The client provided a massing model on a well designed site plan. We aligned the model with a Google Earth export and composited the two elements together. The composite was used as a base for the drawing. The above sliding before/after diagram shows the power of our architectural invention and water rendering skill set.
To find out more about this project check out the Featured Projects section.
Aerial Watercolor Rendering
Preliminary Drawing
Client’s base SketchUp model
Title: Sanderlin Avenue
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Client: Cooper Carry
The time-lapse on the left is a development of a preliminary drawing. This process is drawn fairly quickly and the preliminary is available for client feedback. The final line art incorporates client comments and is more carefully crafted. The line art is also provided for review and approval. This particular prelim drawing won an Award of Excellence which can be seen here.
Design Charrette Services
Savannah, GA
Working on location as an integral part of the design team is beneficial for immediate feedback and development of perspective renderings. These illustrations are often times looser colored drawings produced over several days and used in the final presentation. The illustrations are a team effort with everyone (including the public) contributing to the thought process, design, and character of the place.
What is a charrette? A charrette is an intensive planning session where citizens, designers and others collaborate on a vision for development. It provides a forum for ideas and offers the unique advantage of giving immediate feedback to the designers. More importantly, it allows everyone who participates to be a mutual author of the plan.
The idea for design charrettes (from the French word charrette meaning “chariot” or “cart”) is believed to have derived from stories of architectural students in Paris in the 1800s. As the story goes, students’ exams were collected in a charrette, and some of these students continued to madly sketch together as their designs were being gathered for evaluation.
A time-lapse from a day-in-the-life of charrette work.
The working session was held in a local church which provided ample space for the team, residents and government officials to listen, provide feedback and design. The collaboration with the team was ambitious and with everyone contributing, seven perspectives were created over three days. This Savannah project was also presented in the Congress of New Urbanism 26 conference.
