Why sketching is becoming the new digital detox

We live most of our creative lives on screens. Ideas get typed into notes apps. Brainstorms happen in shared documents. Even visual thinking has migrated to tablets and styluses, mediated by software that promises infinite undo and perfect lines.

And yet something is shifting. Across creative industries and well beyond them, people are returning to paper. Not as nostalgia, but as necessity. The sketchbook, that humble analog tool, is experiencing a quiet resurgence among professionals who spend their working hours in the digital realm.

The Ritz Herald explains why sketching is enjoying a renaissance and why paper still matters in our uber-digital era.