Tag Archives: Perspective (graphical)

Let’s have some fun.  Grab a pen and some paper and draw a cup or a car or a house.  Done?  Great.  There’s this term – canonical perspective.  It comes out of some research first presented in 1981 by a guy named Palmer.  The short version of what he did was to ask folks to draw him something and he found that most people drew the object from the same perspective – slightly above, looking down, and a bit off to either the left or right.  Is that sort of what your drawing looks like?  Well, this point of view has been dubbed the “canonical perspective” and it’s today’s business thought. Continue reading →