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Plan Graphics for the Landscape Designer (2nd Edition) | 
| Author: Tony Bertauski
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
List Price: $39.60
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 85867
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 264
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0131720635
Dewey Decimal Number: 712.0222
EAN: 9780131720633
Publication Date: April 17, 2006
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Product Description
"Plan Graphics for the Landscape Designer, Second Edition" takes readers step-by-step through the design graphics process. Written at an accessible level, readers will learn basic drafting tools, lettering and drawing techniques; commonly used textures and symbols; how to read plan graphics; how to develop effective designs; and how to assemble professional portfolios. This edition is filled with new sample drawings, updated photographs and descriptive design illustrations and visuals that make techniques easy to follow and easy to understand. The revision maintains the text's presentation focus and provides helpful tip boxes to teach readers how to draw an effective design. Sufficiently addresses landscape design drafting at an easy to follow level. Introduces basic drafting tools, lettering and drawing techniques, and then describes commonly used textures and symbols and how to create them. Shows readers how to put together the plan, (starting with the plat, sale and title block), how to properly label symbols, and how to develop a plant list. Enhances the reader's ability to communicate ideas more clearly to their clients. An excellent resource for anyone from home gardeners to aspiring landscape designers.
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Plan Graphics for the Landscape Designer September 20, 2008
Great book! My instructor also said that if he had written a book for his class that it would be just like this one
Required reading March 8, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a must have book for a beginner landscape design student and an excellent review for a more advanced student. It provides a step-by-step discussion of the design process with plenty of illustrations and examples.
 Excellent resource for landscape designers and landscape architects February 16, 2007
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
This book should definitely be on the shelf of anyone who designs landscapes unless you have already mastered all there is to know about plan graphics. The first edition of this book was very good, but the second edition is even better. The only reason I gave it a raing of four stars rather than five is that it contains only a very brief section about color rendering, a topic that deserves much more attention than Bertauski gives it. But it's still a great book even with that imperfection.
Perfect building blocks for landscape plan graphics June 21, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
We used this book in Landscape Design at my college. It is an essential tool for the basics of plan graphics and design layout. It focuses on keeping the design clean and professional. I STRONGLY recommend this book to any first year Landscape Design student, or any professional who needs a good reference tool.
Even better than the Excelent first edition April 30, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book doesnt' fail in maintain its focus on very practical aproach of the subject. It adopts a direct and easy to follow language and tips: Doesn't pretend to be artificially academic, intends strongly to help the beginners on their careers as the veterans too. Would be obvious that all books dealing with the same subject should present top quality on editorial design, but in many cases it's not true. This book, instead, cares a lot about its graphic presentation. The 2nd edition shows even better layout and more useful photos and drawings than those already great found on the previous edition. Covering decently the computer aplications on landscape renderings, it counts 264 pages: almost double comparing to the competing books and it's clearly cheaper, available at a fair price. My favourite in Landscape rendering field.
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