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What does it mean when something is under construction? Well, for one thing it means the design is supposed to be complete. The planners, the architects, the engineers are done, and the builders get to work. Time lapse photography can commence, and eventually capture something wonderfully asymmetrical: the process of construction.

In design, even the tools are different. The paramount tool of design, at least until the present day, has been the pencil.

We highly recommend a book on the pencil.

The Pencil : A History of Design and Circumstance

by Henry Petroski

The pencil is such a part and parcel of our lives, we scarcely think about it. Evidently this has always been so; pencils have always been an essential part of the creative process of working and reworking that is so important to engineering. Visit Amazon.com soon and ; order this fascinating tome.