At one point in history, blueprints were actually blue. Now, if you even see a dead tree version of plans or assemblages, they’re probably printed off with a plotter or large format printer. … ...

Blueprint stage the time to make design changes. SHEILA RICH. CORRESPONDENT. Editor’s note: Rich Ideas is a monthly design column by Sheila Rich of Monmouth Beach, ...

In the same way, we should design our database using a graphical tool to produce the “blueprint” – a data model – before a single line of application code is written.

Technical drawings of architectural or engineering designs always seem to consist of white images and text on blue paper. Why? It’s because of how those documents are made. The blueprinting ...