Fulltime Internship

At Sander Design, we are always looking for a self motivated, highly creative individual with a passion geared towards unique and varied design styles.

Job Description:

• Survey and assess designated sites and develop designs
• Prepare landscape plans, sections, elevations, perspectives and detailed drawings for sites
• Ensure drawings complies with approved standards
• Estimate costs, prepare specifications and evaluate tenders for landscape construction projects

Skills:

• Degree in Landscape Architecture from accredited program.
• Ability to multi-task, self-motivated, well organized
• Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office, Adobe CS 2 or greater, AutoCAD, Sketch Up
• Problem solving skills,
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively,
• Efficiency, excellent time management and accountability,
• Pride in work, attention to detail,
• Clear communication skills,

Please email your letter of interest along with your resume and samples of your portfolio to antje@sanderdesign.ca.

It is always amazing to see a design coming to life. With a lot of help from so many people we were able to create the Jully Black Garden pretty much as we envisioned it. Now we are waiting how the public will experience our garden display. 

 5:30am in the morning and the garden is ready for the show...  

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Canada Blooms - Articles in the Star

Here are some links to articles featured in the online issue of The Star for some more information about the upcoming Canada Blooms Show. Enjoy! 

Feature gardens big highlight at Canada Blooms

A lyrical sense of the garden

Canada Blooms Jully Black - Move In, the Countdown Begins

Friday 12pm and the countdown begins. We have now until Tuesday 12pm to be ready with everything...

Walls are standing and ready for prep work.

Darren enjoying his job.

First colour is applied.

Curved walls and bench is brought in.


More to come soon!

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Visit us at the show!

365 Thing to do in Toronto Neigbourhoods - Design Talks with Sander Freedman

Sander always loves to speak about his passion for combining sustainable design with contemporary gardens and outdoor rooms, so when he was approached by Urban Mode to be a guest speaker he accepted the invitation.


Join us on March 10, 2011 at Urban Mode at 7:00pm. Tickets are $15.00


http://www.365toronto.ca/?p=372

Canada Blooms Jully Black - View Behind the Prefabrication

After the design was good to go we met with our contractor Peter Kim of J.B.Kim Landscaping. Now we just have to figure out how to build it...

first pictures of the construction work...

a rough layout is done in Peter's barn

3D forms emerge - 

Peter and his team are building wood frames

 with drywall cladding to give the walls their curves

now the final shape is already to see

More to come soon!

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Visit us at the show!

Canada Blooms Jully Black - First Design Ideas

The 2011 Canada Blooms show featured gardens with the theme of the JUNO awards as tribute to the 40th anniversary of the award itself. This garden was designed in collaboration with Juno award winning artist Jully Black.

When we were first approached by the organizers of Canada Blooms to design one of the 5 JUNO Rocks Garden, we thought; this sounds interesting. We agreed to it and waited with anticipation to see which Juno award winner we would represent. We were pleased and excited to find out that we were representing the incomparable Jully Black.

In our first phone discussion with Jully we tried to understand what she would like to represent with her Juno Rocks Garden and what message she would like to get to her audience and the visitors of Canada Blooms. She also mentioned 2 songs which are very dear to; 'Running' and 'I travelled'.

Based on this phone conversation with Jully and some research, we started to do our part of the job. From the beginning we felt that the music video 'Running" holds a wonderful power and serves as a great medium to get Jully's message out. Not only through the music and lyrics but as well through the strong visuals. At once we decided that 'Running' was the perfect song to celebrate Jully in our Garden, the design took shape. 

The black and white colour scheme of 'running' with it's little colourful splashes of turquoise, pink, purple and blue was ideal to pick up in the garden design. the black scarf blowing in the wind in Jully's video is picked up in our design by a mural wall paint emerging into a black sitting bench, meandering through the garden. This gesture of movement and running characterizes the garden. The curving walls, the bench and the flowing water standing for movement strength and courage.

Incorporated into the design will be a New Media Centre which will feature a video message from Jully Black and a chance for garden and plant enthusiasts to connect and share with Jully their thoughts via twitter.

Despite Sander Design and Jully Black working in two different professional fields, we came to discover we shared the same values and goals in life and in business. As a result, we were able to express our joint values and goals through our interpretation of Jully's music.

Some 3D renderings...

More to come soon!

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John Street Square Competition

Sander Design is specialized in residential design and to keep our range of work open and to broaden our field of work, SD is always interested in competitions whenever time and capacity allows. Usually this coincides with the winter season. This year we found a small local design competition concerning the square at King and John streets in Toronto. The competition was hosted by the Toronto Entertainment District BIA.

Unfortunately we didn’t get selected, but we had a lot of fun creating this design and we now see the John Street Square in a new light and with a whole lot of potential.

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