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Why hire a graphic designer when most of us can do it ourselves? ; )
 
PS
 
Your web address is spelled incorrectly in your folio.

Joint ventures, networking with other LAs, networking with other professionals in related fields, hiring (or being hired) as subs, are all things that many people do easily and successfully, but a true co-op of part time people is not the same thing. It needs to be an entity with marketing and management.
Are any of you in a true co-op?

Russell:  a denial without a reason is not an apology, or an explanation of a

misperception. 
Agree or disagree with me, but don’t get personal…..

Sorry, I already got slammed for offering an opinion.

I particularly like that this model offers a cooperative / mentorship vision of landscape architecture that this offers – more network-centric and egalitarian.

For newbies like us I think a coop offers the chance to bid on projects we wouldn’t have the chops to get on our own. It also gives the team the chance to go up against the big guys. Personally for us, the chance to even write proposals and bids is an experience a new landscape architect can’t get on their own. Wait…I should say write correctly.…[Read more]

This scene seems to sort of fit the thread.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI
 
“We’re adding a little something to this month’s sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anybody want to see second prize?  Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you’re fired.”

Danielle: you were “one of them”  lol…
 
(joking here Russell, just joking here)

worse   alias   ever.

Well somewhere on here I told people to come up here to take a job if they think the situation sounds so sweet.  It was sarcasm obviously, but should still be in here somewhere…

I caught that too.

ditto

First of all, Nicole Foss is a trained biologist, not a trained economist.  
 
Second of all, the bank publication is using statistics with sources to back up its information, whereas Nicole Foss did not give any information to back up her statements.  
 
Finally, she did not say peak oil is “kookiness”, she said Nicole Foss is kooky – as are a l…[Read more]

“They don’t want to be in a cookie-cutter type of development..”
Does anyone, really?
 
“Consider designing outdoor spaces as if they were living rooms.”
Mindblowing concept. I sense the ‘S’ word coming…
 
The author makes gen-y’s sound like overgrown children, and maybe there’s some truth to that, but I like taking baths and my dogs sleep on t…[Read more]

About half my work is residential; I would join a co-op like the Hive or like an artists’ co-op (really a co-working space) for the 3rd reason – long dark winters – in other words, to do my work around other people. I would have to balance the cost of the space vs. the price of my sanity…. just kiddding….not really.
 
I’m actually working…[Read more]

After reading through the last three or four pages I can only come to ONE conclusion:
 
I need a raise.
 

Those of you who have actually gotten leads, written up contracts and have done residential landscape design/architecture, … would you have incentive to join a co-op? If so, what would that incentive be? Residential work does not require a team, so it is not because it expands your capability. 
 
Joining a co-op is much like taking on a pa…[Read more]

At the risk of another personal attack (assuming your remark was aimed at me Russell?)
Artists have been doing studio and gallery co-ops for a long time.  You may want to look into how these are constructed-business wise.  Not exactly the same, but maybe similar enough.  I know they usually charge a flat monthly fee (ala Tanya), and a pe…[Read more]

Lol – yes, if we want to cling to the paltriest of semantics while at the same time disregarding my acknowledgement in the above post…