Cla Allgood

Well hello there!  I recently graduated from UGA with a BLA and am looking for some local landscape architects to talk to.  If you are interested please add me as a friend on Land8Lounge!

Dear colleagues,

Does anyone have any suggestions on innovative ways of promoting the projects you’re working on?Apart from media and personal websites is there for example other sites which allow to reach wider audience?Thank you.
Elif Bonelli

thanx mike, i will try this and tell u

In setting up perspective in mounds or terrains, you must assume they are in a square box, locate their base points on perspective and find their height, then do connect from each base point to the top.  Hope this help.

i have doubt in perpesctives & sketching for mounds, terrains, iam not getting proper shape or profile of the mound in 3d 

A beautiful landscape plan nicely rendered by our member Romella Edgmon who took our workshop in July 2007. She contributes the entire rendering process below to share with our members.  Thanks to Romella.
It was a pleasure coming up with a conceptual design for a water feature in honor of philanthropist Walter Annenberg. A water…[Read more]

Bruce Lonnee, MHP’99 on the Oconee Street Corridor.

For me mentoring is a lot to do with conversation, and whenever I get the chance I like nothing better than to sit down and chat.
There are however many people whom I admire that I have not yet met, and one of those would be Zaha Hadid.
Of those I am unlikely to meet I would have to name Francis Bacon. I really love his work, but I also like wha…[Read more]

This is my 5th recession, it took me years to recover from the savings & loan crash. i thought i had a safe niche, no more developer or commercial work. i have focused on high-end high design residential and cultural projects which i was sure was recession proof. what do i know? the last few years i could have used a mentor.
i started a blog…[Read more]

Who would you love to have as a mentor for your design career if you could pick anyone in the world, living or dead?
 

Landscape Design Consultant
Ed Castro Landscape (ECL), an award-winning leader in Landscape Design/Build, is seeking an experienced Design Consultant to join our team to focus on residential design and construction.  Our Landscape Design Consultants are constantly challenged professionally by the variety of projects on which they work, and also…[Read more]

MLA Candidate, Kelly Holbrooks profiled in article.

Thanks David! and thanks for creating such a phenomenal product for landscape architects!!! I use it everday!!!

                               
Drawing with a Good Attitude                    
 
 
Many people feel they are unable to draw or sketch well either due to the lack of talented background or missing proper guided graphic skill. I have spent over 35 years of my life teaching people how to draw well with confidence, often I have seen people walke…[Read more]

Improvement of B/A drawings in just 7 days?

Before: Bad perspective, no gradual value change and lack of details on walls, ceiling and floor.  Requires nicer design with more furniture, bad person that was scaled too short, need more colors like blue, purple, and orange.
After: Good perspective, good details on walls with nice gradual value…[Read more]

HISTPRES
I met with these ladies at the National Trust Conference this past week in Buffalo. A great source for HP positions and they also encouraged LA’s to look at the position also.

RLA Position

Gardner Museum Fellowship in Landscape Studies

Hi!
I am curious to know if anyone from UGA is going to the USGBC Georgia Chapter Annual Meeting tomorrow morning in Atlanta?  If so, I am willing to carpool.
Here is the information about it.
 
Annual Member Meeting
Directions are attached
 
We’ll See You There!
 
 Friday October 21, 2011 from 8:30am to 10:30am
 
at Trees Atlanta
225 Chest…[Read more]

How to render a sofa with markers

Left Sofa: (Rendered as Designer’s sofa): Outlined sofa lightly with a red or #B pencil, then render each surface of cushions by applying Chartpak Colorless Blender first and use the value sequence of Sunset Pink, Salmon, Deep Salmon, Scarlet and Maroon to achieve a nice Graduate Value Change to White Space. …[Read more]