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I replaced my black starter ink with an 80 ml for the second time just last week. I bought the printer in February. I’ve gone through at least 10 rolls of 24″x 150′ bond using mostly b&w line drawings. I just replaced the starter color ink (12ml) with 29 ml cartridges.
This is an image of my typical 24″x 36″ b&w print with some parts blurred out…[Read more]

Thanks for the feedback Andrew. I looked at the HP’s and found that the cost of ink per ml was higher than the other 2. Good to hear that ink cost is a non-issue. Will have to give it another look.

I used to work at a large format printing business at the University I attended. We had Canon plotters, and a KIP laser printer. The KIP prints very quickly (around 10 seconds per 24×36) and has a scanner.The KIP we had was black and white only, and was perfect for CAD drawing sets. They offer a colour version too that prints almost as quickly. I…[Read more]

Fabulous: I had not seen the mags that you referenced but just checked their websites. I will definitely send the links to my friend.  Thank you.

What are your criteria? 
A lot of suppliers offering thermally treated woods with some doing the process domestically (rather than shipping it out to the Baltic and back) – the ash supply seems to be from the trees cut down for borer infestation so may be a good choice.

Agreed. There are two separate initiatives there and with regards to the promotion of the profession as a great career, perhaps the carriage was put before the horse there.
Creating spaces for people to live, breath, and make memories in is a emotional endeavor. I would agree that tapping into those emotions—and matching abilities and a…[Read more]

I think there is a big difference between recruiting for the profession and promoting the profession. “The profession” has done a great job recruiting to the point where there is a flood of people with not only BLA or BSLA degrees, but many with MLAs and not enough employment opportunities for them. I think they took advantage of the environmental…[Read more]

ASLA (local, state and national) should do a better job at marketing LA but so should each of us. Remember, ASLA is made of people and if you are a member, you can suggest activities….
What have you done to “spread the word” beyond clients:
1. Have you signed up to be a Landscape Architecture merit badge counselor for the Boy Scouts?  …[Read more]

The Highline is a funny one – you hear larch and arch each take total credit. 
Advocacy is a pretty hot topic at ASLA, with each chapter taking various initiatives: go to schools and show all the great projects that get kids excited and tell their parents, participate in ACE program (I can’t tell you all the moments of ‘oh, landscape architects…[Read more]

I agree with this. It’s hard to define what we do compared to architecture because we generally don’t make objects, we makes spaces (usually), and whenever it is visually stunning, it is through the use of plants or hardscape which could give people the impression that it was undesigned (natural) or done by an architect (The Highline for example…[Read more]

Of course if money is no object then you could have it carved out of solid marble too.   But the tooling cost alone is likely to be many times what a production statue would cost.   I’m hoping to find a shop that already has tooling and sells the statue in normal course of business.

For those interested in this I suggest a review of the following:
Author and Citation Information for “The Concept of the Aesthetic”
The latest version of the entry “The Concept of the Aesthetic” may be cited via the earliest archive in which this version appears:

Shelley, James, “The Concept of the Aesthetic”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of…

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Agreed. If anyone wants to post a concise definition of what an LA does the majority of us would disagree with it because it is too diverse. Diverse = vague. Think about relying on the marketing results you are likely to get through the marketing of a vague profession vs. marketing your own skill set to people who need and understand your skill…[Read more]

Just a little insert on something that caught my attention by accident: I flipped the t.v. remote a few days ago, and stumbled into the program “The Desert Speaks” on public t.v. Mostly that program has a laid-back host who goes out to various places in the southwest and S. American countries where he explores some part of nature with a local…[Read more]

I think you bring up a great point here, Claudia. I wonder who the target for this awareness campaign would be? Should the ASLA’s purpose be to educate the residential sector or professionals in collaborative industries like architecture and engineering? Perhaps both?

The only time that I have found it to be a “selling point” has been for trying to sell commercial projects to regulatory boards. I have not found it on the radar screen of clients because they are interested in it for environmental reasons.
The project that I mentioned above was for the personal residence of an architect who thought it would give…[Read more]

Andrew, 
I agree that LEED is nothing more than good design.  What LEED has done is substantiate that our good design is a selling point and the marketplace has finally come around to our design ideas as part of a standard regiment.  LEED adoption is not ding our profession but a plus and we should continue to educate home and commercial owners al…[Read more]

Blanket statements such as ‘basically, commercial clients are only interested in budget and deadlines’ is not accurate as we all know, every project, owner and client is different.  I’ve had plenty of commercial owners that reversed their VE efforts for a better project, ie decrease spacing, better specimen trees, non rectilinear swale design, va…[Read more]