Posted in Associations, design principles, tagged 9rules on May 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This WordPress template has been very good to me, very good. Especially when it come to the sideboard. A clean, simple, economical sideboard without a lot of “stuff”. So it was a great move for me to get on WordPress.
When I did make this move I made a concerned effort that I would not have [...]
Posted in design principles, drawings, plan-vew drawing, stone on May 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For those of you in the profession that’s all I would have to write:
It’s May
Is it ever, things are alway like this(thankfully) in the Northern climates this time of year. That great sense of “May” urgency. The average client procrastinates calling the contractor as do many, many others-everyone calls all at once. Screaming.
“Me, me, pick [...]
Posted in Associations, design principles, landscape design, tagged ohio state, Cornell, Longwood Gardens on May 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The University of Minnesota conducted a survey of over 1,000 folks and this was the answer to where Americans get advice for their gardening problems;
Their neighbor.
That’s right . . . their neighbor.
The survey of 1,000 Minnesota gardeners published in the January–March, 2008 issue of HortTechnology showed that although respondents viewed the University of Minnesota and [...]
Posted in landscape design, plant material, tagged Elephant Ears, old pictures on May 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Say you wanted to do something a little different, a little clever, a little off the wall? I mean why not, you are a professional Landscape Designer? Aren’t you?
Well at least some of you are. Professional(s) . . . that is.
So here’s a website that is so simple and easy to use it’s almost ridiculous, [...]
Posted in nature, stone, streams, waterfalls on May 11, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s been awhile since we posted on one of my most favorite subjects-stone.
I thought I would remedy that with this image of a waterfall and stream bed of one of my former design projects. The job was installed in 2006 and I snapped the picture early last week.
[ Edge stone buried in help sell realism. [...]
Posted in nature, tagged Buson, haiku on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Not a leaf stirring:
frightening,
the summer grove
Posted in drawings, tagged creativity, perspective, perspective drawing on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
I really like art work from the 50’s back, or should I say I really like the illustration work from the 50’s back.
It is that type of illustration work that drew me to this simple little book called Perspective by Victor Perard, ca 1954.
Here’s the book cover:
[ I love that zooming airplane! ]
It’s great isn’t [...]
Posted in Associations, conceptual drawing, design principles, nature, presentation drawing, tagged acidic soils, Daisy Design, Heamanthus toxicarius, James Kuntsler, moss on May 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Some odds and ends I have been wanting to share, and a few comments about them.
Adding a Blog
It’s been awhile. Quite awhile actually, I can’t even remember the last time I added a Blog to the list over on the WCI Links page.
Well then, I guess it’s time. the blog is Daisy Design and as [...]
Posted in conceptual drawing, drawings, landscape design, tagged Add new tag, drafting table, drawing table on May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s how things looked early this morning at Rick Anderson central.
[ Computer, markers, moleskine, photo's, more markers, another moleskine, ]
As we pan to the right a look at the drawing table.
[ Ah, that drawing on the bottom looks ready to go, time to start another. ]
Addendum: Need some design work done? How about hand-rendered in [...]
Posted in conceptual drawing, design principles, hardscape design, landscape design, tagged garden enthusiast on May 4, 2008 | No Comments »
[ A conceptual design, with emphasis on the hardscape.* ]
We always emphasize the hardscape, the structure, the construction. this is where the aork is and where we usually cannot afford to make any mistakes or “do-overs”.
Petunia’s we can do over.
1400sg. ft of stone patio we cannot do over.
A shrub here or a new Heuchera there-we [...]
Posted in plan-vew drawing, steps, terrace, tagged deck, landing on May 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
OK listen up; it’s follow-up time. Remember way back when in the previous post we were talking about what type of landing I was thinking about for this particular project?
Well now we are getting down to the nitty-gritty. The real deal, it’s now for all the marbles. Now we got a deck, and some steps(in [...]
Posted in conceptual drawing, design principles, hardscape design, renderings, steps, tagged deck, landing on May 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Landing . . . you know, a landing. That flat space you design in when you’re going from a high space to a low space. Or in the case of a Landscape Designer when you’re going from a deck to a patio.
It’s that platform where you stop and rest, and then turn right(or left) continuing [...]
My hope is to use this site to spread some info about the art and practice of Landscape Design. It is a very misunderstood profession; I do not cut grass like the next door neighbor's cousin who carries 3 mowers and a blower in the back of his truck.
I will also pass along comments on industry happenings, events, etc., and any maybe a few other adventures going on in my world-after all this is "my" blog. Thanks for stopping by and taking a look. Questions? Drop me an e-mail.
rick (at) whisperingcraneinstitute (dot) com
