https://land8.com/members/johnhotto/activity/ Activity feed for John Hotto. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:50:42 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=6.0.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 321f96e8469b422ec3f7a3257abd2f6e http://land8.com/forums/topic/las-searching-for-a-job-a-few-suggestions/#post-151254 Thu, 22 Dec 2016 21:13:10 +0000 Drawing is definitely important in all design professions, but there are great landscape designers, gardeners, furniture makers, sculptors, etc. that don’t do a lot of super fancy drawings first. I simply stated that in my experience too much emphasis is placed on fancy drawings in the la educational system, then we get pigeon holed doing…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e03d9dfd174b5747f0f3faaf6c9cbfe http://land8.com/forums/topic/las-searching-for-a-job-a-few-suggestions/#post-151256 Thu, 22 Dec 2016 15:14:22 +0000 Of course drawing is an important communication tool, but if you can’t build an idea or it doesn’t work, then all you will end up being is a graphic artist, which is fine in its own right, but that not what we want to be, is it?

]]> 0 297542dd68ff7607455fb61ee72752e6 http://land8.com/forums/topic/las-searching-for-a-job-a-few-suggestions/page/2/#post-151258 Wed, 21 Dec 2016 19:18:24 +0000 The education received in a typical college LA program is actually pretty good, it just took me a couple of decades to realize it. Good problem solving, communication and environmental skills are usually acquired. I think one problem is that too much emphasis is placed on drawing and graphic skills which the civil engineering community is more…[Read more]

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