[Bob Luther]

LandFX with FXCAD, Sketchup for 3D, Pixelmator for image processing (great Mac alternative to Photoshop). Wouldn’t change a thing!

[Bob Luther]

Well I am disappointed in my industry if you are the future… This whole conversation is a joke, I get it you are just trying to get people fire up on a stupid topic, egg on my face… You are… Why do I even, I’m done!

[Bob Luther]

Yes I use a whole crap load of fonts on a wide range of projects, it just isn’t the first or fifteenth thing I think about, in fact I love to make lists for my project to-dos, never have I written a to do… Find perfect font… I have had the opportunity to do a pirate/shark themed project and did use papyrus and who knows maybe I will put it on my next project. I do use fonts but it is not anywhere close to important to my design, it’s almost subconscious, i change fonts just because I get bored and want to do something else.

[Bob Luther]

Absolutely!

[Bob Luther]

I often pull out my iPad in meetings to pull up manufacture websites to help a client pick stone, or benches, or to pull up images of plants to verify what the client wants. I have plugged my iPad into the tv in the clients conference room and done a power point presentation, I have used it to take quick photos, there are a wide range of great uses.

[Bob Luther]

First off, it takes a huge amount of restraint not to just rip into how… Oh I almost went there. Two things graphic presentation (preliminary design) fonts may make a difference to give a theme or feeling, construction documents need clear crisp legible font/typeface so that a contractor can read and install the design.
A quick question, where in the LARE exam are fonts covered? Oh that’s right they are not, our industry is about a lot more than some silly letters on a page, if you were trying to piss people off, well done. If you were trying to get a discussion of over 100 posts, well done, if you really think fonts are important go to grad school or find another profession. I don’t mean to get pissy but I just wasted an hour reading all of these posts for nothing!

[Bob Luther]

As silly as it sounds I have had consultants who we work with that reclines are done with photographs. We will plot the consultants work, redline it, pin it to the wall and take digital photos rather than scanning ( because of scanning costs and also scanner access) then email or Dropbox a bunch of photos and a note to explain the changes, then a phone call to clarify, we are in the process of going to a more virtual setup, but change is slow.

[Bob Luther]

When you deal in fantasy and without a budget and have the perfect setting anything is possible… It is also one perfect vantage point of an idealic scene, in the design landscape we often don’t ask the viewer to stand in one exact spot to create the visual, we ask the view to move through the space, or use the space, or be apart of the space not just an outsider looking in.

[Bob Luther]

Hey cool piece of art for the guys in the Good Year Blimp to look at as they take shots of Santa Monica for the Lakers game on TNT. I love aerials like the one you posted as nobody will ever see that visual. Not a favorite of mine either, seem like something else could fill the space better than 50 paths to nowhere.

[Bob Luther]

We use Sketchup every day to design elements of the landscape and produce construction detal, we use it for creating bases for hand renderings or for simple exhibits that can be sent to various people with in the design team very quickly. A lot of firms send out their high end modeling/rendering to asain firms who can create high quality photo real renderings “overnight” to get into that field it is more about the second and third level of software (rendering engines).

[Bob Luther]

Autocad with LandFX

Microsoft Office (email, memos, transmitttals)

Sketchup

Photoshop

Illustrator

Microsoft Publisher (use InDesign if available)

PowerPoint

 

[Bob Luther]

Yes I am contradicting myself, by pointing out that ASLA does not take the steps to promote the industry, they should look outside the box but do not. Would celebrity endorsement help? it couldn’t hurt! If Oprah had a special on Landscape architecture and the role of LA’s on the Green industry it would reach and educate more people in a single hour than any efforts I see with ASLA, do I want Brad Pitt to be an Honorary LA, no, but I would like to see a little more exposure of someone like Eddie George, heisman trophy winner, NFL Star and Landscape Architect.

[Bob Luther]

STOP waiting for ASLA to promote the industry, if you want to promote LA’s in the green industries you need to promote yourself and put yourself on a team that competes for RFP’s and RFI’s you need to educate the architects and engineer’s as to what you can add to their team ASLA will never do that for you. The Brad Pitt Story is a perfect example did ASLA approach Bratt Pitt and educate him? give him an honorary celebrity ambasidorship to be a spokesperson? I doubt it, if he would have said he wanted to be an interior decorator but with non-animal thingys PETA would have made him a poster child for their cause. ASLA has no voice.

[Bob Luther]

it depends on what you are trying to accomplish… I think for most simple models sketchup is the new industry pick. For high end complex modeling Rhino and Max seem to be the standard.

[Bob Luther]

for a medow area you should look into a mix of grasses. for a mono-crop planting (single species) blue fescue (more architectural look) or mexican feather grass (wild meadow look) then to mix it up you could add some muhlenbergia (deergrass) for some size and variation.

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