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I walked out of a Mike Lin workshop at a CELA conference at LSU in the late ’70’s. Why? Because I was already drawing and sketching using this “style.” But I was taught by Buck Abbey and Van Cox – both L.A. prof’s at LSU. They probably leaned the method from Mike himself. I was also snagging a copy of every book on architectural and site graphics…[Read more]

Not sure we really need more egotism in our profession, but the other thing you see plenty of in architecture that we could use more of is design nerdiness. By nerdiness I don’t mean the tendency to wear bow ties and weird glasses or any of the negative stereotypes associated with word “nerd”. I mean a passion for all forms of design,a love of…[Read more]

Thanks Rob – yep… as they say Big Brother is watching 😉

This isn’t quite on that track but could tie in on the “ideal person wanted” theme. It seems that education and employment in general are becoming unhinged. 

Majority of unemployed now have some college education:
http://www.floatingpath.com/2012/05/20/time-ever-majority-jobless-w…
For most of the recession, the media kept saying that the…[Read more]

Now, more than ever, employers would like a person with proficeint AutoCAD, SketchUp, etc., superior plant material knowledge, field supervision, and (10 years experience in mind), with a 0-3 years salary request, usually out of school. This is what these postings mean. No such individual exists. Most of the time, when the work thins, you are…[Read more]

I did assume from the Subject that this was about working on a government project.

But I enjoyed the post and the insights you offered into designing for so specific a situation as a reality TV show. Thanks!

Ya, designboom is dope.

Ha!  Going to have to repost that one… 🙂

It is very entertaining, especially coming from that world. i think LAs could learn something from them though. We need a bit mor4 agressive attitude and unabashed egotistical bantering. It would be good for the profession. We are too nice.
 
BTW. Went to the the AIA national convention this week. Never before have so many bowties, sportcoats and…[Read more]

better yet
http://www.designboom.com

BTW — I did have to look it up…

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/tag/buckminster-fuller/

**sitting in my BF Fort now on my laptop about to head over to archinect to trash talk the latest architecting du jour…

haha..good one.

I wonder how many of them are building a Buckminster Fuller blanket fort right now.

Can you post an example page with both presets so we can see what’s coming out?  Maybe describe how that specific page was put together as well – what are images, what formats each of the images are in, what’s pdfs linked into another pdf, etc.
Also, I’m a little confused. Your original post said bitmaps (and did you mean bitmaps, as in .bmp or…[Read more]

A few job posting come through via the university – many from alumni that either work for local firms or started their own design/build.  But what is striking about the ones I see through the university is that the majority of them want 1-3 years of experience….

Haven’t figured out how a requirement like that is useful to those graduating with…[Read more]

Thanks Craig,
Interesting how the grass is always greener?
I will remember what you said when I have yet another tedious conversation about the calcium content of the new type-n cement or the latest DOT regulation….. 🙂

I also took Mike’s course a couple of decades ago.   I don’t remember it being the “my way or the highway” as you describe it Alex.
We worked with lots of different media–not just markers.  (One which I found invaluable was prisma color sticks–super fast and subtle.  Good for small presentations.)
The other was the emphasis on qu…[Read more]

We all have to realize that landscape architecture firms have been getting unsolicited resumes sent to them on almost a daily basis for a few years now. There is little reason to post an ad for employment, so not seeing ads may not be an indicator that hiring is not going on. … it is not an indicator that it is, either.
 

Design/build is about the only kind of ad I see out on the internet also (to April).

Ha!