Objects, media, or computer programs, which can be used to design
The pencil is one of the most basic and most popular graphic design tools.
Design tools are objects, media, or computer programs, which can be used to design. They may influence the process of production, expression and perception of design ideas[1] and therefore need to be applied skillfully.[2]
^Jane Anderson: Architectural Design, Basics Architecture 03, Lausanne, AVA academia, 2011, ISBN978-2-940411-26-9, p. 40
^Christof Ehrlich: The Construction of the Idea and its Tools, in: Design - Creativity and Materialization. Cottbus, 1999, ISSN 1434-0984.