PLAN AND SECTION

Kira Appelhans is one of those rare souls who actually gets going when the going gets tough. An acclaimed landscape architect in many respects Appelhans showed her ingenuity and flexibility during the economic downturn. When certain circumstances guided her to leave her post at an NYC firm Kira braved the unknown and decide to try her luck in yet unexplored facets of landscape architecure. Did the lack of a steady job slow her down her? No! In a scant year and a half Kira built a website ( www.working-earth.com),  taught at two of the best MLA programs in the country ( UTSOA  Austin and PENN Design ) participated in the esteemed Macdowell artist colony and had her landscape architecture work shown at the MOMA as a part of the Rising Currents project. Appelhans knows how to stretch the role of being a landscape architect and for that reason Plan and Section dubs her as an ‘OH PIONEER!’ to be recognized.

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Although this site is primarily concerned with visual representations, writing has a significant impact on our profession as well therefore I would like anyone and everyone to peruse these two calls for papers:

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Land8 is hosting a webinar about hand drawing with Brian Lin of the Mike Lin Graphic Workshop and it lead me to reevaluate the tiny amount of time that I personally devote to sketching and hand rendering. Mike and Brian Lin are the father and son team at Mike Lin Graphic Workshop, an enterprise whose mission is to help you the individual become more confident, comfortable, and skilled at hand drawing/rendering.

Click here to sign up for Land 8’s webinar!

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With the plethora of tutorials out there, mastering a vast number of rendering ’styles’ is possible. This is wonderful because it  inherently enriches your skill set but it is possibly insignificant if your competition has mastered all those tutorials as well. So what sets you apart from someone else? It is your own unique process of designing. Therefore, such a thing as a process portfolio is coming into a new vogue and is a tactic that will help illustrate the exact strengths you bring to the table.

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I’m sure in all those climate awareness conferences you’ve sketched up a pertinent ideogram or a compelling icon about climate change. Could it be be quickly rendered in Illustrator or Photoshop or analog style? If your answer is YES then you have the chance to have your poster published in the Green Patriot Poster book.

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