How do I use Pinterest with my clients

I’m a big fan of using every bit of software and apps available online if they help speed up your work and if they help to communicate better with your clients. For me, Pinterest came to replace the traditional mood boards. So for each client, I create a mood board/panel in Pinterest with inspiring images…

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So how long does it actually takes to produce a rendering image?

Once you’ve finish your project in sketchup, which by the way is the most important part in terms of measurements and fundamental to get it right, you upload your model to lumion. It’s here the real fun begins and why you ask? Because modeling in lumion is like you are in a game environment, you…

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The choice is yours

Our course is coming along, this small video is just to show that are a lot of different styles to choose and more importantly to customise. You can record your style so in the future you can used it again in another project. Soon I’m going to share how I organize my work from concept…

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Great renderings need great materials

Did you know that to get great images for your projects you need great materials!! So how to get them? It’s really important when choosing the materials to be as close as possible to the real ones, the ones that are available in the market and that you going to suggest to your client. Materials…

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Creating your clients Dream Garden

Can better renderings change the way you work and communicate with your client? I belive so, specially if your sketching skills are not great our maybe your portfolio is not quite ready. Maybe you want to create a different style for your design practice, good quality renderings can communicate this message, of course that you…

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Sounds and context

Think about using sounds to create an atmosphere to the garden, or maybe if it’s an urban space traffic noise may be used to create a more realistic garden. Sounds can be located in the exact spots they originate in the real world so you can realize how it would feel in the garden in the back…

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Rendering and animations

If you already doing your projects in Revit our Sketchup there is no reason not to go that extra mile and up your game. With animations and renderings that are accurate geographically so you can show your client the garden in diferent times of the day or the year for example.

The Journey Begins

Thanks for joining me! My name is Catarina, I’m a garden designer and I’m Portuguese. I’m a graduate of the Greenwich University in the UK, I’ve my one studio as well as being chief editor of the Portuguese magazine Tudo Sobre Jardins. I love gardens and design, materials plants and of course outdoor decoration:-), but early on it…

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