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I agree, Richard Elliott. $150 an hour or so, sounds like a good range; $25 to $50 I said above is too low.

I think you are really undervaluing what is being offered, and by the sounds of it the request for training is coming from professional organization, not some one who is doing a small hobby on a Wednesday night at art class.
I am in Australia and listed below are some courses and there costs
ESRI 2 day course: $2,200
AutoCad Beginner 3 days:…[Read more]

Very true, to replicate a persons style is very difficult (and not very creative or satisfying), and the companies who are after training there staff to produce an image like yours will soon realize that there is a lot more work in it than they originally thought.
Perhaps you could offer a basic training in the fundamentals of graphics and…[Read more]

Ask Mike and Brian Lin. They made a career of their drawing school, as far as I can tell – at Penn they did not teach drafting, so we as a class hired Mike Lin during the summer – it was $300 to $400, class size was about 20,and it was a terrific class, we all loved it. I have heard they have a teaching studio set up also, so students can go…[Read more]

Here’s some general information that I have gathered by asking pointed questions and looking at all information available on the “new” exam format.
First of all, CLARB claimed, during the ‘redesign” process, that the new format would closely follow the way things are done in an office. Of course no one at CLARB has actually worked in a design…[Read more]

Thanks for your thoughts. Once my bitterness passes, maybe I’ll decide to take it again. It’s really too bad. If I were alone that would be one thing, but there pissing off a lot of people and I don’t see why anybody would want to get a license with all these headaches.

I see a lot of people put on presentations at trade or professional organization meetings that are supposed to be teaching certain skills, but are much more about demonstrating their own ability than actually teaching anything. By the end of the night several people have spoken with them about doing freelance work for them.
In fact, one…[Read more]

I gotcha, like :
Moods in the Landscape: A.E. Bye by A. E. Bye (Jul 24, 2006)
or
Art into Landscape, Landscape into Art by A. E. Bye (Jun 1988)
Thanks ! 🙂

Who is A.E., Henry ?
Title, publishing, year ?
Please 🙂

Good for you, sounds like you have a good strategy. I know what it’s like to develop a style and be paid to produce that style on projects. In reality, if you do decide to do some tutorials chances are those that try to replicate your process will only be moderately successful. What clients don’t realize when they’re paying for professional…[Read more]

Attempt much appreciated, Book and comments duly noted, thanks !  😀

In a feeble attempt to return the discussion to its original focus, the primer I used was Theodore Walker’s Planting Design (1991). It was geared toward landscape architects, but would be very straightforward for an instructor teaching motivated non-designers. The only real drawback a couple of decades later is that the illustrations and drawings…[Read more]

Trace One, 
I want to thank you for that very important lesson you taught me today : do not let yourself and your discussion be dragged down into an argument you did not look for.
We spoiled the topic (I doubt anyone will want to share their books after this long digression), but I guess that’s the price to pay for the lesson.
Thank you again.

*edit* time for thinking

thanks

Design With Nature by Ian McHarg, Wjiley 1995 (reprint of 1971 original..) 

I seem to recall online videos that were ‘sold’ via subscription by an enterprising designer (these were admittedly not ‘interactive’ but the person did very well for themselves.
A lot would depend on the market (how many are you competing with and how much does a client foresee making by being able to leverage what you teach them).

Hmmm, Andrew, not sure I exactly understand what you mean, so please forgive me if I miss the point.
When I came to SEAsia for the first time, I understood that everything I knew about landscape architecture had to do with my cultural background. Here the contrast is so strong that you understand that the way you see and analyse things has to do…[Read more]