When he eventually brought together a design team he used one simple sketch, which he'd made in Cannes, and made one of the world's most innovative cars.

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Working with MGM's head of design, Murren came up with a rough sketch of how a city could fit on the land.

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The Ecosign team fired up AutoCAD, a design software used by architects and engineers to sketch three-dimensional project drafts, and used PCs to plug in technical numbers for Olympic courses.

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She uses Photoshop to sketch out her ideas, regularly bouncing them off her two design assistants over email.

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Mr. Martin expected the Butlers to reject his first sketch: a tall, skinny home much more ambitious in design, disproportionate in scale and costly to build than the surrounding homes in the area.

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And the transmitter design that Bell immediately sketched in his notebook upon his return to Boston was identical to the sketch of the transmitter that Gray had submitted to the Patent Office.

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