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Challenge Yourself to Design Better
Keep your passion for landscape design and consciously fuel your enthusiasm by visiting new places and cultures. You’ll see landscape design from a new perspective.

Feel like your designs are uninspired? Sometimes, our day-to-day efforts start to affect our creativity and enthusiasm for landscape design. Make a conscious effort to reverse that. If you don’t, you’ll quickly lose your enthusiasm for design and your creativity will suffer.

If you read our newsletter last month, you know we recently took a trip to several ancient areas in the Mediterranean. Why? We went partly for fun but also because we know a trip like that would renew our energy and creativity, and enthusiasm to create great designs.

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Design Tip: Use Natural Stone
Natural stone is not only beautiful, but it meets today’s ‘green’ and ‘sustainable’ standards. Using it might add a lot to your bottom line and the quality of your designs.

In our recent travels to Greece, Egypt and Turkey, we saw streets lined with stone columns, walls, curbs, courtyards, plazas and other buildings. Stone buildings are everywhere — cafes, fruit markets, agoras, theaters, amphitheaters, even fish markets! And all of this is thousands of years old.

We saw grand stone columns, arches, door pediments, obelisks, gates, roads, driveways, and stairs down to the rivers. All of these were built many years ago, without power tools, Bobcats, or cranes. All of these magnificent construction feats were installed with no carbon footprint, and there is no carbon footprint needed to sustain and maintain them even now. These structures continue to bring beauty and functional value to peoples’ lives.

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Meet a Design/Build Revolutionary: Bob Masters

Profile: Bob Masters, Founder of Inspire, The Art of Landscape (formerly called Masters Design/Build), Annapolis, MD

Employees: 10 to 20

Mix: 75% Design/Build, 25% Maintenance

Years in Landscape Business: 26

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What's New at the Kinman Institute
Custom Landscape Portfolio Book Project
We’re still pulling together our book project for those interested in participating. This custom, hardbound book will include portfolio views of several of our alumni. By participating, you’ll have multiple copies to share with current and prospective clients, architects, developers, even the local media. And you can use them for years as a persuasive marketing piece. By being included in this lush and unique presentation, you’ll show how valuable your expertise is and differentiate yourself from all your competitors.

Want to know more? Contact us at 614-764-8733 or email us at cynthia@kinmaninstitute.com for more details.

Past Articles

Check out these articles from previous issues of Design Build Revolution.

• The Value of Networking, and Why We Should Network with ‘True’ Peers

• Travel Inspires Us All

• Buy my bushes, please!

• What You Don’t Know Can Help You

• How to Lead Your Business Through Uncertain Times

• Get Paid for Design

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