The Business of Garden Design: Digital Design Software for Garden Designers

This course aims, through practical demonstration and example, to highlight the benefits of designing on an iPad. The focus will be on Morpholio Trace, Procreate and SketchUp for iPad, showing how these three programs in combination lead to an unprecedented ease of workflow. Never has it been easier to produce precision technical drawings, master plans, analyses of topographic surveys, ‘photoshopped’ imagery, 3-D modelling, perspective and isometric sketching, freehand and watercolour drawing, and photorealistic rendering and all of this on a device the size of a school notebook. Working like this, there is absolutely no compromise on quality. It truly is a design studio in your pocket.

· A detailed overview of these three design tools showing, through practical demonstration, how these different programs speak to each other, giving various examples of their practical and immediate application to the garden design industry.

· Students will, from the end of day 1, have a series of practical exercises that they can take away with them to start developing their own design skills by using these three programs.

· Scope for in-depth questions and answers along with general discussion around the interplay between SketchUp for iPad, Morpholio Trace and Procreate looking at the many and varied applications of these programs, to be developed during Day 2 and 3 of the course in more detail.

Your course leader

For several years now, John Wood has been a regular tutor at the Society of Garden Designers, training designers in a wide range of computer graphics and design programs: SketchUp, Procreate, Morpholio Trace, Layout and Twinmotion. He runs his own private client tuition business, delivering group and 1-2-1 training for garden designers all over the country.

As co-director of the Surrey based design and build company, Pure Form Garden Design, John has a wealth of hands-on construction and planting experience. There is, consequently, a direct correlation between his theoretical CAD teaching and his practical understanding of construction, with the real needs of a garden designer closely informing all his teaching.

Note: The course will be recorded, and all course participants will receive the full recording as a permanent learning resource.

FAQs

Software for your iPad on this course is either free or at minimal cost and you will be sent details when you enrol.

Entry to Kew Gardens is included. Refreshments through the day can be purchased from the Orangery restaurant that adjoins our training room.

You will be sent instructions in advance of the day with where to go to gain free entry to Kew Gardens and how to find our training room at The Orangery Conference Room to the side of the Orangery Restaurant. Kew Gardens’ gates open at 10am and we will start at 10.15am. We will finish by 4.30pm.

Please visit our main website for location details on how to get to Kew Gardens, public transport and parking options.

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