value of sketching in teaching graphic design.

Design is a comprehensive discipline encompassing several processes, tools, and methodologies, to create and communicate solutions. This requires research, gathering evidence, creative thinking, designing, refining, testing and, foremost, conveying an idea to a specific audience with a purpose.  Over the past decades, higher education institutions and, especially, design schools have deployed Computer Aided Design (CAD) software into the curricula. This undertaking provided students with new tools to design, develop and implement in a fast-paced society. Digital technology has undoubtedly caused changes to the design process that have still to be fully understood. (Oxman, 2006, pp. 229-265).