This addition to the deck, a new railing and walk, new set of steps, a pond and totally new landscape plantings was an eye-opener. The Inside For the homeowners it had come down to the large changes outside vs. the addition to the size of the kitchen. The drawings and estimate were put together for… Continue reading It Never Happened
Category: renderings
From the Sketchbook(12)
It’s a Oldie! About the second after I finished this page of sketches I received a phone call telling me the project went kaput. So that was that. I think I was on to something here, but, alas . . . . . Another rendering from this went nowhere. Below is a rendering for a… Continue reading From the Sketchbook(12)
Sign, Sign, Everywhere’s a Sign
Some rendering possibilities for sign for a business I have done some work for in the past So this is one idea above and then I thought about drawing another idea, this one mostly for myself. Looking at this as I am writing . . . doesn’t that look like a wishing well? Sorta, it’s… Continue reading Sign, Sign, Everywhere’s a Sign
A Squidoo Lens on Moleskines
I decided to play around a little further with lens’ on the Squidoo site. This time I am showing some renderings and sketches from my Moleskine notebooks. These Squidoo pages are a pretty quick, easy painless way to promote an idea, thought, process, group of something etc., and get it out to the World. Publish… Continue reading A Squidoo Lens on Moleskines
From the Moleskine (13)
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 7 physical and 3 Sensory Elements=The 10 Basics of Design Physical Elements: Point: where everything starts. Line: the connection of two points. Plane: connection of… Continue reading Design Principles (07)
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 nonsense on designing berms. Mounds??? Notice I do not call these mounds. Why? Well they’re not. They are not mounds . . . as in… Continue reading Designing Mice Under the Carpet
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 2 others form a “campus like setting” that is divided by one public two lane road. 1 building on one side of the street and… Continue reading Designing an Identity
The Whispering Crane Institute 