A modern landscape for a modern house

The house had been remodeled into something wonderful, but the exterior spaces needed some love. They’ll be getting it soon. The main themes are swimming, vegetables and living spaces for people, and habitat for hummingbirds and butterflies for nature. The problems are leaking pipes from an irrigation station and possibly from the water supply toContinue reading “A modern landscape for a modern house”

Top ten Trace sketch of the month!

Morpholio honored one of Mike’s master plan sketches in their top ten this month. He’s the only landscape architect awarded, sharing the glory with architects, illustrators and industrial designers. This is his first award for the craft of illustrating a design rather than the design itself. The sketch is a detail of a master plan,Continue reading “Top ten Trace sketch of the month!”

Annette goes digital. Sort of.

She’s now using an iPad, just the basic bit over 9″ display. It’s already hard to tell she didn’t draw these by hand! She’s using a simple pen with a tip that the iPad can recognize. Paying $100 for an Apple Pencil was not on her radar, especially since it doesn’t really help you learnContinue reading “Annette goes digital. Sort of.”

Design studio on the go!

We’ve been streamlining measurement, sketch, brainstorming and presentation techniques for landscape concepts and quick initial plans, using an iPad to fill in for a desktop based CAD system. We can create base plans, sketch out options, do photo overlays, create illustrated design sketchbooks and export all this as pdf files (or print everything out).  HereContinue reading “Design studio on the go!”