Andrew Spiering

Hi Abigail,
Jeff Gonot is doing a series on our blog right now on the “Forgotten Landscape”.  Check out his latest post here: http://www.land8.net/blog/2012/02/07/rebirth-of-the-forgotten-landscape-part-two/
I hope this helps!

Hi Justin,
I use Land FX and especially like the planting module.  It cut the time spent on planting plans by 1/2 at least.  Check out some of the other threads here.
Also, consider Dynascape and Vectorworks.  If I were starting from scratch and wasn’t already setup using AutoCAD, I would strongly consider these two solutions.  Both are reli…[Read more]

Agreed!   Crissy Field is another good one in SF. 

We’re finally on prime time!  Rob’s a funny dude.  You can do it…!

Sounds exciting.  Feel free to post this to our events page.  Thanks!

Sounds like a great chat topic… : )

Will be writing a blog post on this topic soon.  Check out harvest (as already mentioned) and freshbooks.

Check out this project by a Land8 member… http://land8lounge.com/photo/albums/design-it-shelter-competition
 

Great!  It’s gonna be a good one…

Hi Nicole,
Great question!  We have a webinar series coming up in a couple of weeks with Daniel Tal on SketchUp & Shaderlight.  It will definitely be worthwhile for you to attend.  Check out the details on the event page – http://land8lounge.com/events/land8-webinar-sketchup-and
 
Thanks! Andrew

Not sure if this was mentioned yet, but I just came across this website… http://fontsinuse.com/… could be a point of inspiration for those diehard Papyrus users. 
 
 

haha…

Posting internships to the JobLink were free at one point.  It may have been their way of avoiding paying the $600 to advertise the job opening…  just a thought.

Check out Women in the Dirt… a documentary film that explores the role of women in landscape architecture.
 

Read more and comment on our blog… http://www.land8.net/blog/2011/03/08/women-in-the-dirt/
 

Thanks, Brian!  I’ll give him a ring…

1.  Hand graphics are very important!  Here‘s discussion on the topic.
2.  I have not taken his course, but sat in to observe.  From what I saw, he was able to help his students develop confidence in their drawing skills that was seen in their before/after drawings.  Basically, he teaches you how to find confidence by practicing a few methods over…[Read more]

We will also be donating 10% of the total ticket sales from our upcoming webinar series to Red Cross to help the relief efforts in Japan.

Make a donation via Red Cross here – http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main

You can view The Lounge on your mobile via – http://www.land8lounge.com/m
 
As for an actual app, I think it’s a great idea.  Other than web browsing, what features/functionality would you like to see?