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Pearl May posted an update in the group
Design Implementation 14 years, 7 months ago
“I learned the ropes in the field prior to Licensure; I started at an ornamental tree farm then became manager and head of landscapeoperations, then lead designer, then partner in a design build firm, all the while not fulfilled in my carrer thinking that I took the wrong path by not stepping straight into a design firm. It wasnt until I joined a…[Read more]
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Emily Musall-Fronckowiak posted an update in the group
Design Implementation 14 years, 8 months ago
I also went to design Build after graduation. I feel that if you understand the installation from the hands on construction aspect, it will make you a better designer and allow you to push boundries because you really understand them.
Contractors can be allies or enemies and it will affect the project on some level. I have found that working in…[Read more]
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Vanessa Ruiz posted an update in the group
Graphics 14 years, 9 months ago
Hi James,
Actually, my professor introduced me to your work this past summer, my first semester in LA, and it was he who let me know about your rendering techniques and color usage. In fact, our first shot at perspectives involved 20 minute perspective-making sessions that aimed to emulate your graphics.
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James Richards posted an update in the group
Graphics 14 years, 9 months ago
Hi Vanessa; glad you’re having success with the colored pencil techniques. You have a good eye! I do use a cream pencil combined with peach on almost all buildings and hardscape at the very beginning of coloring a drawing, then wash over them with whatever color will best depict the material I’m envisioning…terra cotta, slate blue. etc. The…[Read more]
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Eric Shepley posted an update in the group
Graphics 14 years, 9 months ago
Nick,
Thanks! I’ll probably be doing more of these in the future and I would like to seed them be as representative of the true design as possible.Thanks!
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nca posted an update in the group
Graphics 14 years, 9 months ago
Eric-
I got your message. I need to make some evergreens for a plan tomorrow as fate would have it. I’ll post my steps here or shoot you a message.
-Nick
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nca posted an update in the group
Graphics 14 years, 9 months ago
Eric,
I couldn’t tell you how to do it using drop shadows, but I could offer some good advice on doing it manually in photoshop without creating numerous layer copies and keeping the file size down.
send me a message if you still need help with this and I’ll explain some simple tricks.
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Clayton Munson posted an update in the group
Design Implementation 14 years, 9 months ago
Great conversation and thoughts everybody.
For me I went straight to a design/build after graduation but that is because I wanted to go that direction. I also spent 3 summers in the field doing the labor prior to graduation. No experience with a design only firm.
Correct me if I’m wrong but in most cases I design only firm doesn’t begin to deal…[Read more]
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Brent Jacobsen posted an update in the group
Design Implementation 14 years, 9 months ago
Tim, Jay, and others –
Just found this group, and am happy to see it exists. I am actually one of the Masters students you spoke about who is lacking direct landscape construction experience. I agree wholeheartedly with the comments, and see this as a huge problem. Do you have any suggestions on the best methods for acquiring this experience?…[Read more]
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Eric Shepley posted an update in the group
Graphics 14 years, 9 months ago
Does anyone have good method for doing evergreen shadows in photoshop with the drop shadow?
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Cole Slater posted an update in the group
Stormwater 14 years, 9 months ago
Well said Mark, our proffesion is so variable that it makes it easy for others to put us in a box on one side of it which I find to be simply ‘lanscaping’. We need to work together as a profession to be “armed with facts and calculations” to give creditability to the profession across the board.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Mark O'Hara posted an update in the group
Stormwater 14 years, 9 months ago
This issue is complicated and to say that rain gardens are the answer is not much different than the traditional infrastructure approach, where one solution can solve all problems. In most instances and geographic locations, the solution needs to include water quality and quantity solutions to solve the problem. Rain gardens, bio-swales and…[Read more]
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Cole Slater posted an update in the group
Stormwater 14 years, 9 months ago
Charles,
“Blame it on the Rain” – Milli Vanilli
Well, not really. I just wanted to quote them! Policy is a difficult thing. Until every land owner is charged by the city for the real cost of thier stormwater impacts from a pre development hydrology, there will be uncecesary systems put ini place.
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Charles A. Warsinske posted an update in the group
Stormwater 14 years, 9 months ago
Cole
Good comments. It is annoying to listen to disciples of the “new” green movement who lack the understanding necessary to design facilities that actually work and can be maintained (sustained). Even here in the NW we have LID facilities being required in locations where they just will not work.
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Cole Slater posted an update in the group
Stormwater 14 years, 9 months ago
Robin, not to be a sceptic: I have recently moved to hawaii though spent the last 5 years in the califonia working for a large engineering firm. It is difficult to get buy in from the engineers as the systems are simply not as functional there as they are in the NW. The reason for this is that the NW has rain year round whereas cali has no rain…[Read more]
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Vanessa Ruiz posted an update in the group
Graphics 14 years, 9 months ago
James Richards is great. I love his simple color palette. He blends darker colors in his lighter colors to make things look cohesive. For instance, he used carmine red and true blue (i think it was true blue) prismacolor color pencils over cream to create this really nice effect. So, the cream hardscape and buildings really popped after i tried to…[Read more]
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Lisa Port, APLD posted an update in the group
Stormwater 14 years, 9 months ago
….and a nicely planted raingarden, or artful rainwater catchment system usually looks better, provided it works correctly, than the typical curb and gutter system. I have found that the client is usally into this aspect of LID. In residential applications, is it wonderful if they take ownership of the process and work to make regulatory change…[Read more]
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Ryan Templeton posted an update in the group
Stormwater 14 years, 9 months ago
I have found that it is best to be part of the design process early on, integrating bmp and lid strategies into the program. Working with the engineers can often open up more opportunities and gain momentum to make green strategies more tangible to designers, since we can explain the simplicity and practicality of these strategies. In most cases,…[Read more]
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Lisa Port, APLD posted an update in the group
Stormwater 14 years, 9 months ago
Great website–thanks for pointing it out. Living in Seattle, I have visited many of the listed projects, urban and rural, but many more are coming on board. In 2010 some Seattle homeowners will receive $$ rebates for installing rain gardens and cisterns to reduce CSO into Puget Sound and Lake Union. read more: http://www.seattle.gov/util/rainwise
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Kevin Robert Perry posted an update in the group
Green Streets 14 years, 10 months ago
By the way, it is dumping down rain in Portland right now!
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