They call it . . . Plant Chair
Ok gang as I was searching around I stumbled across this “chair“. Thoughts? Opinions? Here’s the promo line: Plants growing around your bum? Yes! This wooden chair by Kinokoto is designed to […]
Category Archives: design principles
Some Interesting Sites(5), and $200 Gardens
More snooping around has lead me to a few interesting sites and post you might find interesting. Designboom has really caught my interest starting with a story on a new […]
Design Principles (07)
Let’s move a little further along my list of what I consider The 10 Basic Principles of Design. Remember this list? Ten Building Blocks to Design-Design at it’s Most Primitive […]
Designing Mice Under the Carpet
In my previous post I spent some time talking about berms and such, plus some other fun nonsense. Fun nonsense? . . . and I must say some very practical […]
Designing an Identity
A quick landscape study for a client. This is part of a much larger conceptual idea I have for frontage in front of 3 office buildings. These 3 buildings and […]
Design Principles (06)
I wanted to go a little further on this idea of thinking beyond the ground plane. I keep coming back to this for a reason. Beginning designers, intermediate designers, and […]
Design Principles(04)
Here’s a look at someone who followed a very different type of design principles and a way of designing landscapes . . . art that become art in the landscape. […]
Design Principles (03)
After the previous post on the 10 basic principles of design-in my opinion the 10 basic principles, I felt a follow-through was needed. So here we go I wanted to […]
Design Principles(02)
All rightie then, coming off the heels of the previous post with the good Doctor here comes some more wackiness. What I have below is what I thought was the […]
Design Principles (1)
Here’s a video from Dr. Ann Marie VanDerZanden of Iowa State University discussing “principles of landscape design”. In my mind this is more controversy concerning design principles. Going back to […]
PTN: Preservation Trades Network
Okay Landscape Designers here is somewhere you need to get to and learn about . . . toot sweet! I would think every LD who is in the profession long […]
Back from Columbus
I have returned from the CENTS show today and am ready to get back to the swing of things, including a project or two. More on the show and my […]
Now Take a Look at this Wall
Now this is a wall, this is a thing of beauty, this is real, real stone . . . not some concrete product from a mold. Briar Hill How could […]
High End Outdoor Theatre
Now here’s a outdoor home theatre almost no one can afford. However if you find a client that can afford this system, I’d say they’re a keeper. We need the […]
Water and Ink
Keeping up my drawing theme this week. Some really interesting pen and ink work, that is just fascinating. Just follow along and then be amazed . . . I was. […]
