Two garden designers from Salisbury based Rumbold-Ayers landscape design are among the fifteen that made it to the shortlist for an international garden design competition. Svend Rumbold and Alexandra Lehne worked together on the design for the SLANT Open International Garden Design Competition 2011, which attracted entries from many countries including Brazil, China, Poland, Chile, and USA. The competition was judged by eminent garden designers John Brookes MBE, Anthony Paul and Hugh Ryan.

Alexandra Lehne and Svend Rumbold’s design “Magic Bavaria” is a garden for a contemporary home in a lakeside setting in southern Bavaria, and features an ornamental pond and a swimming pool, as well as magnificent views to the lake and the Alps beyond. The design pays careful attention in particular to the route of flow across terracing and decking around the pool, through massed several plantings of grasses, to the lakeside.

“We were particularly keen to enter the competition because of the open design brief, which allowed us to create an imaginative design for a location of our choice” explained Alexandra, “and of course having such well known and universally respected designers on the jury makes the effort we put into our designs feel really worthwhile.”

On being shortlisted, Svend commented “We submitted two entries, and were very pleased that they both made the long list. When we saw the list, we were rather in awe of the competition, which included several high profile award-winning landscape architecture practices from around the world, and so we’re really delighted to have one of our designs chosen for the shortlist. In fact, we were one of only three UK entries to make the shortlist.”

The winner, announced this week, was “Douro Valley Garden” by Ricardo Alexandre Lime Gomes and Daniela dos Santos Silva from Portugal.

Svend Rumbold is the founder of Rumbold-Ayers landscape designers, based near Salisbury, England. Rumbold-Ayers provide landscape and garden design services throughout the South of England and, in collaboration with Alexandra Lehne, also in the German speaking parts of Europe. For more information on our outstanding landscape design services, visit www.rumbold-ayers.co.uk

Corporate floral arrangements specialist donates floral displays for ActionAIDS 25th Anniversary event.

Folcroft, PA, October 19, 2011 — Leading corporate floral arrangements specialist, Hoffman Design Group, will create stunning flower displays as part of the ActionAIDS 25th Anniversary fundraising event. The event will be held Saturday, October 22, 2011 at the Arts Ball Room in Philadelphia.

Using plantscape elements of seasonal flowering plants and evergreen specimens, Hoffman Design Group will create eye-catching displays for this important event.

ActionAIDS began in 1986 to care for people living with HIV/AIDS and continues to deliver services to thousands of people in Philadelphia. Its mission – Making Sure that No One Faces AIDS Alone.

The night will feature a special performance of Angels, an original composition by Robert Maggio, Chairperson, Music Theory & Composition Dept., West Chester University, to be performed by members of the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus.

“We’re very pleased to be creating floral arrangements for this milestone event,” begins Bryan Hoffman of Hoffman Design Group. “Floral arrangements are important in setting the mood of a room and we’ll make sure we’ve got the perfect arrangements on display.”

To attend the event, register on the ActionAIDS website.

About Hoffman Design Group
Hoffman Design Group, Inc, is located in Folcroft, PA, and specializes in creating beautiful interiorscapes, corporate floral arrangements and living wall designs in Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs, Delaware, and New Jersey. Its designs have won many awards and they take pride in their elegant, environmentally friendly seasonal and holiday decorating, corporate interior plantscapes and urban exterior landscaping. For more information, visit http://www.hoffmandesigngroup.com.
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Hoffman Design Group, Inc.
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Folcroft, PA 19032
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CHARLOTTE, NC, May 29,2010 — E-Design™ is a business and life philosophy that advocates and creates sustainability.  For too long, we have thought of only the immediate or short term implications of our actions. The farthest ahead we can think is “within our lifetime” or “for our children’s children.” But we are responsible for preserving this planet far beyond that time frame, and teaching future generations how to sustain it properly. And we have to do the same with our businesses and infrastructure — it all works together, impacting our future.) can help you discover how E-Design™ — a fresh, environmentally conscious, more efficient kind of design that brings higher profits while doing the right thing for the natural world — can help your business succeed during these difficult economic times.

J. Mark Smith, the author of Design With The End In Mind, is President/Founder of Environmental Design Landscape, Inc. (http://www.edlnc.com), a Charlotte-based Commercial Landscape Company established in 1997.  Smith is the creator of E-Design™, a revolutionary new system of sustainable design, and a method of waste elimination from your life, business and design.  His breakthrough concepts on eliminating waste and controlling distraction are changing the landscape of asset management and preservation.  Smith has earned such professional designations as Certified Landscape Professional and Certified Plant Professional, and is a licensed General Contractor, Landscape Contractor and Irrigation Contractor.  He is the current President of Carolina Green Industry Network (CGIN),  a non-profit organization for the Green industry whose core mission is to raise the level of professionalism in the industry, raise awareness in the community, and provide members benefits through collaborative opportunity and education.

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Santa Rosa, C.A.- Just in time for the fall wedding season, Invitations by Ajalon is proud to announce their introduction of three new letterpress wedding invitation designs. Known for their commitment to innovation, these new wedding invitations contain floral, Indian and classical themes.

Working over the past spring months to develop unique wedding invitation styles, Invitations by Ajalon has always served the artistic and design interests of their customers. These new fall letterpress wedding invitations are the most recent additions to a long line of gallery items that Invitations by Ajalon displays.

“We were trying to incorporate a different theme into each different letterpress wedding invitation,” notes Dean Tisthammer, Invitations by Ajalon’s lead design consultant. “We used a floral theme for one, an Indian pattern for another and classical motif for the third.

According to many professional wedding planners, fall wedding invitation trends include floral designs, multi-cultural patterns and classical styles. As part of their constant drive toward letterpress wedding invitation graphical design innovation, Invitations by Ajalon has worked tirelessly to offer what the modern bride is looking for.

Invitations by Ajalon is a letterpress invitation subsidiary of Ajalon Printing and Design and has been operating in northern California’s beautiful Sonoma County wine country for over 50 years. They are featured on numerous online publications, have a firm commitment to cultural and religious wedding practices and recently exhibited their work at several invitation showcases across the country. For additional information relating to new wedding invitation designs or Invitations by Ajalon, please call 707-528-0288 or visit www.invitationsbyajalon.com.

Trish Jackson

Marketing Director

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Bangkok

, Thailand – As part of its market expansion, Media TreeWorks, a Singapore-based company has officially opened its office in Thailand on 6^th July 2009. This branch is part of the company’s strategic planning in its bid to serve the design and construction market in Thailand.  This significant effort signifies the company’s sincerity to cater and to respond to the needs of both local and international market and be part of its mechanism in the development and enhancement of the design and construction industry as a whole.

The newly set-up office is located at No.128/79 Payathai Plaza, #07-K Payathai Road, ThongPayathai Ratchathewi, Bangkok 10400, Tel: (66) 02 1293998/ 02 129 3999, Fax: (66) 02 1293997 with e-mail address as [email protected].

Media TreeWorks is specialized in designing and constructing stands for exhibitions, point-of-purchase displays as well as commercial interiors. For seven years its well-proven track record of remarkable experience successfully created its niche in the industry handling and managing projects in South East Asia as well as in the Middle East.

Backed by its young and talented team, Media TreeWorks is highly confident to continue to serve the market satisfactorily and competently.

To see more about Media TreeWorks please browse www.mediatreeworks.com.

Media  Contact:

Debbie Gumabay

Regional Marketing Manager

Media TreeWorks International Pte Ltd.

E-mail add: [email protected]

Excel Software began shipping MacA&D 3.0 for system analysts, software designers and programmers.  The new software is a Universal Binary application for native performance on all Mac OS X computers.  It has enhancements to the user interface, integrated help, manual set, report scripting engine, installer plus new features to add, remove, duplicate and individually lock or unlock editing on diagrams.

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Choose the best mix of software models for each development project.  MacA&D supports process, data, class, state, structure, object and task models with popular methods and extensive customization.  Create language independent models or generate source code for C++, Objective-C, Java, Delphi, PHP, SQL, C, Pascal, Basic and Fortran.  MacA&D scales to large projects, multiple users, distributed team development and the integration of thousands of documents across the development process.

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