editor’s note

The Home Front
In a sense, the way we "dress" our homes' exteriors is not all that different from the way we dress ourselves:  Both are expressions of personal pride, and the aesthetic choices we make speak volumes about who we are.  Some of us prefer
Shapes of Things to Come
To know where you're going, you need to have a sense of where you've been. That phrase is a bit shopworn, but it
The Clarity Class
It only stands to reason that you can't have a watershape without the water, but I sometimes wonder just how much watershapers really know about
Big Ideas
When you spend any time talking to designers of public artworks, the concept of "social responsibility" inevitably comes up in the conversation in one way or another.  That makes sense, because artists who work in the public arena often
Lessons on the Home Front
A number of you have asked me, with varying degrees of urgency but no outright threats of bodily harm, to lighten up on what you see as
Impressing with Simplicity
While discussing his column for this issue, I visited one of David Tisherman's projects and observed one of the most dramatic examples I've ever seen of the
Roaring Up the High Road
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with hot rods. I suspect this resulted from my dad's subscriptions to magazines such as Road & Track and Street Rod:  I was mesmerized by
Deconstructing a Trap
For the most part, we keep things positive in the pages of WaterShapes, and for good reason:  With so much inspiring and amazing work taking place every day in all corners of the watershaping trades, negative subjects seldom
Mothers of Invention
One of the best things about watershaping from my point of view is that it can be so interesting.  I'm fascinated, for example, by what happens when watershapers connect with clients, discern their wants and needs and then
Outside the Rocks
Sometimes I like clichés.  That's tough and perhaps treasonous for an editor to admit, but there are certain phrases that truly resonate, and I stand by them for what I think are