Landscape Designer Breaks Digital Ground with App and Online Design Service

Saxtons River, VT (PRWEB) June 02, 2011

Today Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio (JMMDS) announced it is going digital by offering two online tools that make the landscape design process approachable and attainable for everyone. The first, the Home Outside Design (HOD) iPhone app, enables homeowners to place the pieces of their front and back yard landscapes; the other, a new online design service called Home Outside Design, gives cost-conscious clients with small properties design help from the experienced and creative professionals at JMMDS.

Both tools are based on Messervys book Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love (The Taunton Press), which has been changing the way Americans think about home landscapes since its release in 2009. This award-winning book is geared towards helping every homeowner jump-start a process for extending the presence of home out into the landscape by transforming a lackluster property into a beautiful and personal home outside.

More people are realizing that home begins when you set foot on your property, not just when you enter your front door, said Messervy. By teaching homeowners and professionals about landscape design in my books, blog, app and design services, Im empowering them to create the spaces they love and go outdoors to enjoy them.

New Home Outside Design iPhone App Makes Landscape Design Fun and Easy; $ 2.99 at the iTunes App Store

Messervys Home Outside Design (HOD) app, created in collaboration with software design studio All Dreams Digital, is different from all other garden apps. It enables homeowners to select from more than 280 beautifully hand-drawn landscape elements and move them around on a virtual property. Users can mock up their own site, including locating their house and existing landscape features, and then add in a new shed, patio, deck, paths, planting beds, and landscape features such as pools, stones, and play structures.

The app also highlights green features such as clotheslines, vegetable gardens, solar panels, a green roof, and a compost bin. Homeowners can even e-mail their designs to friends or to the Home Outside Design (HOD) app Web site, where they might appear in an online slideshow of inspiring Home Outside Design creations. Besides being an excellent design tool, the Home Outside Design (HOD) app is fun, offering everyone an opportunity for creative play.

New Online Design Service Brings Landscape Design Home

Not everyone feels comfortable designing their own backyard, so Messervy and her team created the trademarked Home Outside Design service to help. Specially tailored to meet the needs of small-scale residential properties, Home Outside Design allows homeownersno matter where they liveto access the award-winning design services of JMMDS in an interactive and cost-effective way.

How Home Outside Design Works: You measure. We design. You enjoy.

To begin the Home Outside Design process, JMMDS sends homeowners a Home Outside Design kit, complete with a Home Outside DVD, measuring tape, pencils and a workbook that walks them through the steps for measuring their property. The workbook includes questionnaires that help homeowners determine their designer personality and aesthetic preferences and uncover their significant landscape and nature experiences.

The result: two design plans drawn as birds eye views that map the flow and major landscape features of the property, including planting beds, walkways, seating areas, and special features. Once a preferred design is chosen, the homeowners can continue partnering with JMMDS to create the finished landscape, work with a local landscape designer or contractor to develop the property, or execute the design on their own.

Home Outside Design plans start at $ 500 for a front or backyard design of 5,000 square feet. To begin the Home Outside Design process, visit http://www.jmmds.com/create/home-outside-design. Information on full-service designs for residential or institutional properties is also available at http://www.jmmds.com.

About Julie Moir Messervy

With three decades of experience, numerous high-profile lectures and six books, including the award-winning Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love (The Taunton Press, 2009), Messervy has emerged as a leader of a movement in which landscape design is as much a personal journey as it is about leaving a unique imprint upon the earth. Her latest book, The Toronto Music Garden: Inspired by Bach, was released in November 2009. Messervy is the principal of Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio (JMMDS) in Saxtons River, Vermont. More at http://www.jmmds.com and http://www.jmmds.com/inspire/blog.

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Harry Lorayne Releases Digital Edition Of World Famous Memory Power Course

New York, NY (PRWEB) March 11, 2011

Harry Lorayne, the worlds foremost memory training specialist and author of numerous books and courses on the subject of memory improvement, has just released a digital edition of his popular Memory Power Course. It is available exclusively through http://HarryLorayneOnline.com. This course teaches people how to remember anything they see, hear or read the first time they see, hear or read it.

Millions of Harry Loraynes books have been sold and he has been the guest on countless television shows to discuss the fundamentals of building a better memory. Harry has also helped numerous corporations in developing memory improvement coursework for their employees. The digital edition of the Memory Power Course consists of his 270 page manual in PDF format, eight audio files and two video files that can be played on your favorite media player at home, in the office or even in your own car.

He has pioneered many of the concepts commonly accepted today as fundamental to memory improvement. With a wealth of experience in development and training, he teaches so much more than basic theory; with years of knowledge upon which to draw he lays out in easy-to-understand format many practical applications in the learning, the career and the social arenas.

Harry has developed a unique training format that actually engages the participants in an interactive style that has everyone actively supplying information and receiving immediate feedback to show the progress as the learner literally builds a better memory. Combined with hours of video and audio support, this course is the closest thing to personal instruction by Harry Lorayne himself.

Here are some of the comments people are making about Harry's work:

Harry Lorayne can make you remember an address book full of phone numbers as if it were your first kiss. When I go on stage with a hundred pages of text in my head, they got there thanks to the Method: the Harry Lorayne Method. -Alan Alda

Thank you for making the drudgery memorizing a script part of my creative art! You are a Miracle Worker!" -Anne Bancroft

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I hope you had a wonderful day. Once again, thank you so much." -Simon Manda

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I just wanted to extend my heartfelt thanks to you. Years ago, I had brain surgery and was forced to use something as a memory crutch. Little did I know the power of your systems. I read and applied them. I was originally unable to go beyond the eighth grade. I later got my GED and was accepted into college on a provisional basis where again, I used your systems in biology, chemistry, etc. Mr. Lorayne, after having dropped out of school for medical reasons, with your help I graduated with my B.A. degree and graduated phi beta kappa. I can't thank you enough.

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