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Quapaw Quarter, Little Rock Arkansas. This was the house used in the television show "Designing Women".
The 11th International FDSS Cup Floral Designing Competition at the Meadow, Gardens by the Bay during Singapore Garden Festival 2018.
Earth Designs Garden Design and Build were asked to created a landscape and propose garden design in Sevenoaks, Kent. Here are the details on the project
The Purple Haze Screening Garden in Sevenoaks, Kent
BRIEF:
The clients have lived in the house for a number of years and have two young children and two very active Jack Russell dogs. The property was extended a few years ago. Emma is a keen vegetable gardener and has a plot in an allotment very close to their property. The children rarely use the garden, so the clients are happy to make its principal purpose entertaining friends. The clients would like a contemporary garden design that complements the interior of the house. However, the garden should be practical enough to cope with the demands of an energetic family. The only feature of the current garden to be retained is the shed in the bottom right corner.
SOLUTION:
The garden was split into 3 distinct areas. The first section, directly outside the back door, features a fixed bench seating area comprising decked bench seats backed by rendered block planters containing low lavender hedge. A large decked table and a trestle-type bench (which can be stowed away under the fixed bench when not in use) give ample space for outdoor dining. When formal dining is not required the table and trestle bench can be combined with the fixed benches (the table is height adjustable) to form a huge double bed lounger for all the family to relax upon.
The floor in this section was laid with Indian sandstone paving in a stretcher pattern. Acrylic planters containing architectural copper grasses line the left boundary. A Yellow Balau hardwood decking path cuts through the paving and leads to the second section of the garden.
The second section consists of two large planting beds bisected by the decking paths. The beds were planted prairie-style, interspersed with a selection of Perspex and stainless steel mesh screens of varying heights and sizes to create drama and structure to this area. The central triangle of the space is framed with two stainless steel cubes 50cm square. Each bed was edged to create definition and retain a pea shingle mulch. The central segment of area was mulched with Scottish cobbles.
The final section of the garden was designed for comfort and relaxation. It features a large outdoor rattan suite, a giant stainless steel planter containing a tall silver birch tree and two series of 3 colourful acrylic planters, all set against a backdrop of a stainless steel mesh screen straddling the width of the garden. This screen, interwoven with fragrant climbing jasmine, masks the shed and utility area at the bottom of the garden.
TESTIMONIAL:
We love our new garden - it has the wow factor as well as being a lovely space to be in. It's one of those gardens that wouldn't appeal to everyone but even if it's not your thing I'm sure that you could appreciate its wonderful design!
Earth Designs are a fabulous company to work with and dealt with any problems that arose professionally and calmly. Right from the beginning we had complete trust in them to deliver what they said they would and all the team were a pleasure to deal with.
We are really looking forward to seeing the garden mature and spending time entertaining our friends in this outdoor room!
If you dig this and would like to find out more about this or any of other of our designs, please stop by our web-site and have a look at our work.
Earth Designs is a bespoke London Garden Design and build company specialising in classic, funky and urban contemporary garden design.
Our Landscape and Garden build teams cover London, Essex and parts of South East England, while garden designs are available nationwide.
Please visit www.earthdesigns.co.uk to see our full portfolio. If you would like a garden designer in London or have an idea of what you want and are looking for a landscaper London to come and visit your garden, please get in touch.
Follow our Bespoke Garden Design and Build and Blog to see what we get up to week by week, our free design clinic as well as tips and products we recommend for your garden projects www.earthdesigns.co.uk/blog/.
Earth Designs is located in East London, but has built gardens in Essex , gardens in Hertfordshire Hertfordshire and all over the South East. Earth Designs was formed by Katrina Wells in Spring 2003 and has since gone from strength to strength to develop a considerable portfolio of garden projects. Katrina, who is our Senior Garden Designer, has travelled all over the UK designing gardens. However we can design worldwide either through our postal garden design service or by consultation with our senior garden designer. Recent worldwide projects have included garden designs in Romania. Katrina’s husband. Matt, heads up the build side of the company, creating a unique service for all our clients.
If you a not a UK resident, but would like an Earth Designs garden, Earth Designs has a worldwide design service through our Garden Design Postal Design Vouchers. If you are looking for an unique birthday present or original anniversary present and would like to buy one of our Garden Design Gift Vouchers for yourself or as a present please our sister site www.gardenpresents.co.uk. We do also design outside of the UK, please contact us for details.
I've been trying out different needle sizes and stitch patterns in preparation for knitting my youngest granddaughter a cardigan type sweater. I'll knit it big so that it will fit for back-to-school in September. I have to start early since the older granddaughter will want one too.
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Caroline Baumann, Director, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, USA; Cultural Leader,.speaking during the Session "Designing for Everyone" at the Annual Meeting 2019 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 22, 2019. Congress Centre - Betazone
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Mattias Nutt
This is my first attempt at designing and assembling save the date tickets for my destination wedding. Yes it was quite a process but I'm pretty happy with the results. Envelopes were made from vellum paper. They were scored, folded, and then embossed with two palm trees. The sleeves were made from sparkle merlot card stock, scored, folded, and embossed. The tickets were printed three to a sheet on Aspire Petallics metallic paper. The corners were rounded and sides were cut each by hand with an x-acto.
Earth Designs Garden Design and Build were asked to created a landscape and propose garden design in Hackney, London*. Here are the details of the project
The Party Garden in Hackney, London E9
BRIEF:
This space was a completely blank canvas, with sound fences to the right and a high brick wall to the left.
The client requested a ‘wow’ garden, one that is funky and stylish yet also practical and inviting, with good provision for socialising and the possibility for the inclusion of a hot tub spa.
SOLUTION:
This design sought to transform the garden from an urban wasteland into a sub-tropical party oasis and split the garden into two distinct areas. At once elegant and stylish, playful and accommodating, the space would be equally suited to intimate dining or large-scale entertaining. The colour palette is aubergine, lime and sand.
The area directly outside the back door is designed to serve as a functional utility area, with a purpose built storage unit slotted into the gap to the left of the steps and space allowed to accommodate the client’s gas barbeque.
The first section of the garden consists of two areas of slate paving, split by a decked walkway that zig-zags down the space. To the left, running partway along the existing brick wall, is fixed bench seating comprising purple rendered concrete block walls and a deck board seat. The existing wall itself was rendered behind the seat and painted purple. A moveable decking table and decking cubes on castors were constructed in this area to provide a variety of al fresco dining possibilities.
Two large rectangular stainless steel planters planted with tall bamboo split the first section of the garden from the second. The second section consists of a large, partially sunken hot tub to the right and an area of decking to the left. A large purple rendered block wall serves to square off the bottom of the garden, providing a strong backdrop of colour to the space while an opening to the left of this wall allows access to a small, open-air storage area behind.
Planting is strong and simple. Big specimen architectural plants dominate, including plum leafed spiky phormiums and cordylines. Grasses give motion to the space. Dramatic ‘Black Parrot’ tulips and ‘Black Irises’ contrast with arum lilies to bring elegance and grace to the scheme. Agapanthus will take the stage once the spring flowers have died back and offset the sand grasses and strong plum foliage.
To compete the design, a variety of lighting was included to create a visual cornucopia when the sun goes down. The decking features sunken lights, strategically placed to light key areas. Spot lights in the main beds illuminate the architectural planting to its best advantage, while creating an overall wash to the garden. Finally, six stainless steel downlighters, three on the end wall and three on the side wall, provide effective illumination to the seating area and hot tub.
TESTIMONIAL:
"From the first time we met Kat we knew we had made the right choice. Kat very quickly determined what we wanted and more importantly, what we didn't. After a couple of iterations of design we came to an agreement and very quickly work started. We made it clear from the beginning that we needed Earth Designs to take care of every detail.
Neither of us had the time or the inclination to be involved in the process, other than discussions around design as the project progressed. Due to access restrictions, delivery of all materials and plants required the use of a crane and closure of the road. This included co-coordinating the delivery and installation of the hot tub with the manufacturer. The boys handled everything without issue.
During the construction, the whole team worked very hard in all weathers to get the job done. We gave them a key so we did not have to be around at any point and they could come and go as they pleased. Every day, we hardly knew they were there and each night, they cleaned up before they left.
They were completely trustworthy and always polite and considerate while in our home. The end result is fantastic and meets all our needs. We have a wonderful environment in which to entertain, one to relax in and a spa area to die for."
If you dig this and would like to find out more about this or any of other of our designs, please stop by our web-site and have a look at our work.
Earth Designs is a bespoke London Garden Design and build company specialising in classic, funky and urban contemporary garden design.
Our Landscape and Garden build teams cover London, Essex and parts of South East England, while garden designs are available nationwide.
Please visit www.earthdesigns.co.uk to see our full portfolio. If you would like a garden designer in London or have an idea of what you want and are looking for a landscaper London to come and visit your garden, please get in touch.
Follow our Bespoke Garden Design and Build and Blog to see what we get up to week by week, our free design clinic as well as tips and products we recommend for your garden projects www.earthdesigns.co.uk/blog/.
Earth Designs is located in East London, but has built gardens in Essex , gardens in Hertfordshire Hertfordshire and all over the South East. Earth Designs was formed by Katrina Wells in Spring 2003 and has since gone from strength to strength to develop a considerable portfolio of garden projects. Katrina, who is our Senior Garden Designer, has travelled all over the UK designing gardens. However we can design worldwide either through our postal garden design service or by consultation with our senior garden designer. Recent worldwide projects have included garden designs in Romania. Katrina’s husband. Matt, heads up the build side of the company, creating a unique service for all our clients.
If you a not a UK resident, but would like an Earth Designs garden, Earth Designs has a worldwide design service through our Garden Design Postal Design Vouchers. If you are looking for an unique birthday present or original anniversary present and would like to buy one of our Garden Design Gift Vouchers for yourself or as a present please our sister site www.gardenpresents.co.uk. We do also design outside of the UK, please contact us for details.
Grandnephew Finny, age 8, at work.
Photo by Niece Mare.
Finny's father is a jazz drummer, but his day job is carpentry.
Finny helps his father with carpentry on Long Island and has
worked with his grandfather in Denmark.
From the Moors to the Sea - a celebration of RHS Britain in Bloom
Alan Titchmarsh designs RHS Britain in Bloom 50th anniversary garden at Chelsea Flower Show.
Alan Titchmarsh is celebrating his own 50th year in horticulture by designing a special Chelsea garden for RHS Britain in Bloom.
RHS Vice President, Alan Titchmarsh MBE VMH DL, is designing the garden at this year's show, sponsored by M&G Investments, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of RHS Britain in Bloom and Alan’s own 50 years in horticulture.
It is almost 30 years since Alan has designed a garden at the world’s most famous horticultural event. He was awarded a Gold medal in 1985 for his Country Kitchen garden. This year Alan is joining forces with another RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gold medal winner, Kate Gould, to create ‘From the Moors to the Sea - a celebration of RHS Britain in Bloom’, which will be a garden feature.
Currently, after 50 years, there are 300,000 Bloom volunteers who look after 200,000 acres of public land and save the UK millions of pounds annually by cleaning up and greening up their neighbourhoods. The enthusiasm and drive of Bloom volunteers helps create communities that make better places to live.
The garden feature will demonstrate how the 300,000 volunteers help to make Britain bloom as well as exploring Alan’s relationship with horticulture through his life.
The journey starts in the Yorkshire Dales where more than 50 Bloom groups work year round to transform their local streets and neighbourhoods, and where Alan was born. It finishes with a seaside scene to depict the Isle of Wight where civic pride has united Bloom volunteers, schools and businesses, and where Alan has a home and garden.
RHS Director General, Sue Biggs, said: “By bringing people together across Britain to enhance their surroundings, Bloom makes an immense difference to the UK, from promoting planting for bees and butterflies and making beautiful and social places for people to live to boosting communities financially through encouraging tourism.
“Alan is one of the most powerful forces in horticulture, reaching out to and promoting gardening to millions of people. He has also been one of the biggest supporters of the RHS and, as this garden demonstrates, continues to generously support and promote horticultural campaigns that transform lives and reinforce our great position as a nation of gardeners.
“As the world’s most famous and best horticultural event, RHS Chelsea is the perfect place to celebrate both Alan’s and RHS Britain in Bloom’s 50th anniversaries.”
Alan Titchmarsh, said: “I can think of no better way of celebrating 50 years as a professional gardener, and 50 years of RHS Britain in Bloom, than by creating a garden for the RHS at the Chelsea Flower Show. I began my career in horticulture on the edge of Ilkley Moor and now garden on the Isle of Wight - a fact which is reflected in my Chelsea garden and in Bloom itself which celebrates the importance of life-enhancing floral displays from one end of the British Isles to the other. 'From the Moors to the Sea' is a joyous celebration of our floral heritage and the people who do their bit to conserve our islands' plants and flowers and realise the importance of beautifying our surroundings whether in village, town or city.”
Kate Gould is working closely with Alan to deliver the garden with the contractor, Mark Gregory, of Landform Consultants. It will be located next to the RHS stand, at the bottom of Main Avenue opposite the triangle. As it is an RHS garden feature it will not be judged.
Caroline Baumann, Director, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, USA; Cultural Leader,.speaking during the Session "Designing for Everyone" at the Annual Meeting 2019 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 22, 2019. Congress Centre - Betazone
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Mattias Nutt
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The 11th International FDSS Cup Floral Designing Competition at the Meadow, Gardens by the Bay during Singapore Garden Festival 2018.
Hoover’s STEM Research Methods class engaged with Drake University students around entrepreneurship and innovation learning. Students built off last week's work session, and began designing business models focused on their research project on the barley plant.
The ideas ranged from creating a cereal to making pillows out of barley.
The Ralston Company's automotive roots stretch right back to the 1910's, but it wasn't until the late 1920's that the low-volume products offered really shone.
As the world was plunged into the Great Financial Apocalypse, and the oil fields were lost forever, many great automotive marques perished among the ruination.
One reason for the survival of the Ralston car company is found in native Finland, where coal mines and steelworks allowed the small-volume manufacturer to adapt their vehicle chassis to accommodate coal-fed steam boilers.
Seeing an opportunity, Ralston expanded into the production of near-luxury models, including the Steam Dragon, producing also a 'Public Car' version, as the existing fleet of gasolene-fueled taxi services were rendered obsolete almost in an instant.
Although there were a great many design details regarding steam-powered automobiles left to reinvent, particularly for mass-manufacturers, Ralston were able to apply the knowledge gained in the creation of exclusive automobiles to create a stylish and safe vehicle, in keeping with the sophisticated to age in which into which it was born.
This Lego miniland-scale Ralston Steam Dragon has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 95th Build Challenge, - "Designing the Ralston Legacy", - for the creation of land-based vehicles created in the steampunk style and alternative universe.
My husband made the table that my two sewing machines sits on and the cutting table to the left.
the big industrial sewing machine to the right is what I use for the majority of my sewing.
Its not as photogenic as I want it to be. but right now its whats practical for me. Still needs some work. :)
Designing iPad Apps Monday, 02/14/2011
Jennifer Brook (The New York Times), William Couch (USA TODAY), Craig Mod (PREPOST / Flipboard)
The iPad and its emerging entourage of Android tablets have introduced a new style of computing, confronting designers with new challenges. Explore practical techniques and eye-opening gotchas of tablet interface design, all grounded in the ergonomics, context, psychology, and nascent culture of these new devices.
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Jennifer Brook, Information Architect for the New York Times
The challenge of building the NYTimes iPad app: How do we design something new that feels familiar? Designed for the device, but maintained typography and branding.
Remember that apps are distinct from web and print.
Great apps:
Understand the platform
Start small and improve over time
Require collaboration to build
Crafted crafted with the human eye and touch in mind
Killer apps do 1-3 things well. They are specific, useful, and easy to use.
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
—p. 71
The waterfall model of development is like a factory and it ends up being too heavy. You need a lighter-weight process to develop simple apps.
When developing, you should put your work on a device as soon as possible. Wireframes and designs should go on a device and stakeholders should view every stage on the device.
Apps should be useful tools for human beings.
William Couch, USA Today | Designing for Distraction
Device | Interaction | Content
Consider the device
-> Device Environment
indoor/outdoor
stationary/moving
focused/distracted
Consider an object's habit field
Windows Phone "Be Here Now"
Kindle is "comfortable in the world" (Tom Armitage)
-> Device Culture
Platforms as cultures
population | customs | governance | styles | beliefs
Consider physical interactions
Device interaction is touch, there's no intermediary
Consider the content
You should have a content API that feeds where you publish
web | mobile | tablets | TV | print
Content can be long form and text online can be a rich experience
Craig Mod, Flipboard | Content Formats & Tablets
HTML5 is the future of books and content
Screens will be paper density (300/dpi)
Great typography will prevail
Ownership is dissolving
The value of marginalia is increasing
The physical is not going away
Skeuomorphism is manifest in the publishing ethos. We're making apps to look like physical books.
When a magazine is replicated on an iPad:
How do you let the user know what they can and can't touch? (Bullet points, touch targets, something more subtle?)
The iPad interaction model isn't fully fleshed out.
As an app designer, you need to teach the user.
Types of Content
Formless (epub) | Definite/semantic/physical (PDF, epub) | Interactive/non-linear HTML5, epub3
ePub doesn't have to be ugly (Virginia Quarterly Review and A Book Apart are good examples).
ePub3 is basically a wrapper for HTML5/CSS3 (so it's very flexible/capable)
Magazine apps can use PDF, that's better than using images, like was previously done on the web and is being done now on apps. PDF is better because it's real text (machine-readable, resizable, copyable).
iOS/Android Native is good for interactive content, because it gives you extreme control over a non-linear flow.
Publishers should make compelling "steal-worthy" content.
In March 2004 I wrote to Haringey's Waste Management officers about the problem of litter shoved between telephone cabinets and walls. These spaces seem to attract cans and fast-food packaging like wasps to a picnic.
They advised reporting this in the usual way as a streetscene problem.* Also saying that the Council’s (then) contractors, Haringey Accord would ask their street cleaners to dislodge the debris with a broom handle and sweep it.
This didn’t seem to make much difference.
I wrote again in September 2004 asking them:
► To remind Haringey Accord that street cleaners should clear this litter regularly.
► To raise the problem with the utility companies (mainly Virgin Media and British Telecom) asking if they use any ‘design-out-grime’ solutions elsewhere which don’t create unintended litter 'storage' space.
► To ask other local authorities what they do about this problem. (For example, on a trip to Cambridge I noticed that phone cabinets seemed much closer to walls.)
Things did improve. But early in 2008 litter behind phone cabinets was again noticeable. So I again emailed Waste Management (in Haringey Urban Environment Department). They replied saying they'd asked Haringey Enterprise (now the contractors) to speak to their street cleaners.
An Impulse to Tidiness ?
Of course, even if my earlier suggestions had been acted on, it doesn’t tackle the main problem. Far too many people drop litter thoughtlessly. Although in this particular case, there's almost a perverse "tidiness" at work. Rather than simply chuck waste on the pavement or in the gutter, people seem to have some impulse to tidiness. They make an effort to "tuck" stuff into a bin-like space behind phone cabinets.
We need to find ways to build on this apparently positive impulse.
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* To report litter in Haringey, phone 020 8885 7700.
Or online though the Council's website.
Mural by Porkchop (Michael Lavallee) is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Asbury Park, New Jersey. He has a MBA in Sculpture from VCU and has had a successful career designing and creating murals, mixed media art and sculpture. He creates intriguing scenarios by combining paint, illustration, and text. He has exhibited exclusively in the United States and Europe and is published in “The Greatest Erotic Art of Today/Volume 2″, “Eye Candy” and “I Want Your Skull”. @ artofporkchop.com
Asbury Lanes
Asbury Lanes located in Asbury Park, New Jersey is a vintage bowling alley and bar with live performances ranging from live musical acts, burlesque, hot rod, dance parties, film and art shows. It is one of the many historic music landmarks located within Asbury Park. These include The Stone Pony, the Wonderbar, the Saint and the Fastlane (now extinct).
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbury_Lanes
The 1980's and 1990's TV series Designing Women was set in Atlanta, GA. The houses for the characters were actually in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Julia's home and the site of Sugarbakers & Associates was the Villa Marre house. It is a Second Empire house built in 1881. It is located in the MacArthur Park Historic District.
The house is at 1321 Scott Street.
Billy Knights, a retired farmer began designing and creating the Water Gardens in 1970 in his 70th year. The site was a damp meadow which became too wet for cattle to graze. Mr Knights' son jokingly suggested he should have a water garden, which prompted him to draw out plans (on the back of a piece of wallpaper) and he soon had machines digging out the ponds and waterways. He worked on his garden with love and enthusiasm until he died aged 93. For over 20 years the gardens had been open to the public.
Both Billy and his wife Florence loved their gardens and sharing them with others. With this in mind and as a tribute to her parents Coral Hoyos began restoration in April 2002. Having been unattended and closed for five years, the Gardens had become quite derelict. However they were re-opened again in June 2003, with a new car park, refurbished tea-room / gallery, a toilet for disabled people and an 8 acre nature trail. There has since been the addition of a bird hide and a new plant sales area, bamboo grove, scented arbour and rustic roundhouse.
To help you find your way round, the bridges are numbered and when you have walked enough rest on one of the many benches provided, or perhaps visit the tearoom in the south-east corner where you can enjoy a relaxing cup of freshly brewed tea or coffee, soft drinks, ice-creams and delicious home made cakes.
Aniruddha Sharma, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Carbon Clean Solutions (CCS), India, Yang Fuqiang, Senior Adviser, Energy, Environment and Climate Change, Natural Resources Defense Council, People's Republic of China; Global Agenda Council on the Future of Electricity, Gary Wong, Editor, The New England Journal of Medicine, Hong Kong SAR at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, People's Republic of China 2015. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Jakob Polacsek