Getting Back to Basics with Design

Shopping for plants can be enormously fun! That is, until you end up with a hodgepodge of pots and no plan in mind. Before getting ahead of yourself and your buying spree, learn how the basics of design through simple sketching techniques and with affordable drawing tools will better prepare you for your adventures in the garden.

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Sandra Nam Cioffi
Sandra Nam Cioffi
Ink Landscape Architects
Sandra Nam Cioffi is the Founding Principal of Ink Landscape Architects, PLLC (INK), a certified MWBE practice, whose portfolio of work is defined by the art of craft, deep cultural research, regional ecology, & elevating the human experience in the built and digital environments. In addition, Sandra is CEO at QiqoChat, on the board of directors at the Ecological Landscape Alliance and Landscape Architecture Foundation. She holds an MLA from Virginia Tech & a BA from The University of Chicago.
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