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…
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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 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…
Changing seasons in the garden
Giving a sense of seasonality to your project can be important specially if your project is flower rich. Showing your client a more tamed, in terms of colours, of your project can be helpful to make sure he knows what to do expect in the off season, wich by the way can as beautiful as…
Giving a sense of scale to your renderings
It’s really important when you think about renderings, not only the angles of your images, but use 5 to 7 images to give a sense of scale. So the easiest way to achieve this is to use people in your renderings. I use 3d silhouettes black with transparency at 45 % but you can use…
The importance of georeferencing
So why is it important to geographical locate your model there for your rendering images as well? The sun position is different in the UK from Australia or South Africa, so it affects the light and it’s impact on your garden. In the images I give as an example of different locations and timezones all…
Using real outdoor furniture in your projects
When talking about rendering images for your project it’s really important to create context and to accessorize. Context as to do with the architectural elements that exist or that are going to be built in the garden. These elements are going to influence your project and at the same time, they give a sense of…
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…
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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