The phrase "a design sketch" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a preliminary drawing or outline that represents an idea or concept in design.
Example: "The architect presented a design sketch of the new building to the clients for their feedback."
Alternatives: "a conceptual drawing" or "a preliminary design".
The black bodysuit with the red highlights is a design sketch from DC's recent revamp and keeps him looking sharp and handsome.
The museum has a remarkable collection of drawings, largely to do with design, and it was here not long ago that Sir Timothy Clifford came across an unidentified Michelangelo, a design sketch for a salt-cellar.
An example of a design sketch displaying this feature appears in Fig. 2.
If a design sketch further included some calculations, it was incorporated in this third level, rather than being assigned to a fourth level.
Specifically, a design sketch includes all forms of displayed representations, where the main features of an object or situation are conveyed in efforts to "give external definition to an imagined, or only half-imagined, suggestion for a design form" (p. 1).
On 22 August 1943, Erich Groner, a German naval historian, and author of the book Die Deutschen Kriegschiffe, 1815 1945, was shown the report while at the "Führer Headquarters", and was directed to make an "interpretation" and then prepare a "design sketch drawing" of the Japanese battleship.
You can get a cover for your BlackBerry with a design sketched by a tattoo artist.
For this camp, Mr. Dyer had made a massive, lusty grill from rusted steel pipe, after a design sketched by the chef Rene Ortiz.
Star Models, a modeling agency based in Brazil, released ads depicting a fashion design sketch of a model contrasted with a picture of a "real" model with those same unweidly proportions.
Throughout, it has remained my ambition to find a solution to the global problem of air pollution". A 1990 design sketch for Dyson's car exhaust filter.
Once you have a developed idea for your card, including format and a basic design sketch, choose the paper you want to use.
