My TOP 15 PLANTS in Lumion 9

These are some of my favourite plants inside Lumion Pro 9 version. Hopefully soon Lumion will have the Latin name of the plants and not the common names in their library. The quality of the plants is really good especially when animated with the wind, check out the video and don’t forget to subscribe to…

SkecthUp and the 3D Warehouse for garden designers

SketchUp is an amazing tool for garden designers and landscape architects. Check out our 3D Warehouse collections, https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/by/gardendesigntools?nav=collections, there are some great models for garden designers to use, I will keep updating it.   The online course SketchUp Basics for Garden Designers is available for €125,00, check out the curriculum here: https://gardendesigntools.thinkific.com/courses/sketchup-basics-for-garden-designers

Using renderings to create a lifestyle dream

Renderings are not only a way to show your ideas and project proposals, the images can project different lifestyle aspirations that you getter for the informal conversations you have with your client. When working with private clients, being a garden designer or landscape architect, the every day living of the garden needs to be throughly…

You can’t build in Lumion!

Lumion is an amazing program, but you can’t build inside Lumion, you can add, import, modify textures and materials but you can’t build. That’s why you always need programs like SketchUp or Revit to build your projects. This video was in response to a question made to me by email from Mandy. I hope it…

Present, communicate, and experience your design with SketchUp Viewer

The SketchUp software is the base of great projects and renderings. SketchUp Viewer is an amazing tool of the main program. SketchUp Viewer for HoloLens Experience your designs by bringing your 3D models to life in mixed reality, and step into a powerful new way to explore, understand, and share your work.Physical models cost time…

Only 4 DAYS left!!

Course content detailed in the video😉 below, pre-launch with a special price just until the 16th of September of €75,00 To check out the course click in the link: https://gardendesigntools.thinkific.c… Learn in our online course SketchUp Basics for Garden Designers how to create a garden project with an architectural element for context and how to prepare your…

Adding brand features to your garden design project

One of the amazing advantages of creating great renderings using tools like Sketchup and Lumion is the possibility of using real-world elements in your projects, to make them more realistic in the final images and more suggestive to your client. Give your clients a real sense of features you suggest like using real pergola structures…

How is VR, virtual reality, going to impact your project?

So what is VR?🤔 “Virtual reality (VR) is an interactive computer-generated experience taking place within a simulated environment, that incorporates mainly auditory and visual, but also other types of sensory feedback like haptic. This immersive environment can be similar to the real world or it can be fantastical, creating an experience that is not possible in ordinary physical reality. “Wikipedia Yes,…

Garden Design as a discipline for the future

A personal view of what is garden design, this article was written for the Portuguese magazine Tudo Sobre Jardins that I’m the chief editor of. We often discuss the garden design discipline here in the magazine Tudo Sobre Jardins, one because is the Base that guides our content and second because in Portugal we do…

How do I use Canva in my business

More and more you need to be present in the social networks as garden designers or landscape architects. And guess what we’ve got a great “material” that we can use, plants, social networks love beautiful things. We love to go to our Instagram feed and see interesting places, gardens, plants, outdoor decoration and other amazing…

How do I organize my projects, step-by-step.

So this is my actual project step-by-step in a project, I just wanted to share this to clarify that renderings do not substitute any step. They had an important step; this is an essential element that, together with the storytelling of your design is going to sell your project to your client. So let me…