Building Confidence - Simplifying a Floral Structure
Building Confidence - Simplifying a Floral Structure shows how you can expedite construction of handmade structures using simple premade forms as a base - as both a structural and decorative element.
Fully illustrated step by step instructions give the complete method and demonstrate its versatility with two designs - a tall standing design and a low design.
Festive Thinking - Christmas Crescent
Curving lines can bring a sense of grace and elegance to a design - an especially welcome quality in festive compositions. Creating designs using organic sickle shapes naturally introduces curving elements. Their crafted forms and fluid lines add impact and interest without overwhelming the flowers. Using metallic wire to bind the sickles offers a subtle glistening element that makes the final arrangement fit easily into almost any Christmas context.
Festive Thinking - Layered Luxury
Long, thin rope-like sickle forms allow the creation of many variations of layered structures into which flowers can be displayed. Creating the sickles from materials like mulch and straw gives them a rustic personality - which can create strong and effective contrasts when used in combination with choice, round flowers and glistening forms like baubles. The earthy, textured backdrop can make the floral content feel more luxurious - perfect for the festive season.
Interwoven Possibilities - Designing with Bamboo Mats
Interwoven Possibilities guides you through the two distinct design examples made using widely available woven bamboo steaming mats, from conception to completion, while also being a study in the design principles and floristic methods encountered on the way.
The versatility of the design styles covered will have you soon adapting them to your own tastes, requirements and available materials.
Reaching Above & Beyond, With the Wire Weaving Technique
Explore the Wire Weaving Technique to create structures that can - quite literally - elevate your designs.
While other mechanics are often hidden, woven wire structures are usually a visible component of the finished composition. Used to physically elevate designs, experiment with balance, give flexibility to flower placements and impart a floating feeling, the is especially useful in downwardly directed designs.
Designing to Win: Floral Competition Essentials
Gleaned from over 25 years competing, this is Mark's essential guide to maximising your success in floral design competitions. Suitable for anyone who wants to improve their competing game or give themselves a refresher, or for those who want to know more about the competition process.
Covers a broad range of aspects of competing, including research competitions, analysing the schedule, understanding the marking criteria, designing, planning and preparing for competitions and reviewing your competition successes and learnings.
Designing to Win: Applied Interpretation: Uncommon Threads
Applied Interpretation: Uncommon Threads is a guide to theme interpretation, in this edition fully working through a theme titled Uncommon Threads. a fully worked example of Mark’s method of approaching competition schedule interpretation. Using an example a theme titled Uncommon Threads, it shows you how to analyse a theme and find design solutions that answer the schedule and marking criteria.
Designing to Win: Applied Interpretation: Glass & Grass
This edition of Applied Interpretation is a fully worked example of Mark’s method of approaching competition schedule interpretation, working through the example competition theme of Glass & Grass. it shows you how to analyse a theme and find design solutions that answer the schedule and marking criteria.
Designing to Win: Competition Learnings: Uncommon Threads
Competition Learnings: Uncommon Threads presents the journey of eighteen designers as they interpret a competition theme Uncommon Threads, twice, with the benefit of feedback and coaching from Master Florist and World Champion Mark Pampling.
Available, with companion videos and eBooks as part of the Designing to Win package.
Designing to Win: Competition Learnings: Glass & Grass
The Glass & Grass edition of Competition Learnings displays the work of a group of designers interpret a competition theme Glass & Grass, twice, with the benefit of feedback and coaching from Master Florist and World Champion Mark Pampling.
Soon to be re-released as part of the Competition Learnings Package.
A Lesson in Leaning
A Lesson in Leaning explores the concept of organising materials around an angled axis, and covers two design variations in the featured style.
Contains commentary on the technical and theoretical information required to make your own version, illustrated with images and sketches that further explain how the designs were constructed.
Five Ways to Add Impact to Your Floral Designs
Five Ways to Add Impact to Your Floral Designs is a beautifully illustrated 18-page guide, by master florist Mark Pampling, offering five distinct ways to add impact to your floral designs, through Balance, Proportion, Elevation, Tension and Line.
Why settle for subtle beauty when you can create designs that create an immediate impact and have a lasting impression?
Amplify the impact of your designs with these five tips.
Festive Thinking - Shooting Star
A step by step guide to creating a versatile, freestanding bound composition, inspired by the festive symbol of the star.
Covers techniques required and advises on placing the flowers and materials within a base structure. Technical aspects of the construction are also documented via a comprehensive array of clear images.
The various techniques covered include binding and wrapping, and creating a transparent star from wire and raffia.
Festive Thinking - Star Up High
A step by step guide to creating a tall, self-supporting floral design on a simple wire structure.
Includes detailed information on techniques and on placement of flowers and materials within the composition. Technical aspects are documented via an array of clear images.
The various techniques covered include binding and wrapping and creating a star from with cardboard and raffia. The fresh floral materials are arranged directly into water - no floral foam required
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Floral Artist
Always learning so much from you Mark and looking forward to more .
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Greer
These designs blow my mind! I'd love to know more about the mechanics to be able to replicate them. I absolutely love the 'light footprint' design thinking. Thank you for stretching my creativity.
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Maureen
Well above my standard of work . Great to receive read & learn from. Thank you so much for the time & work putting it all together have taken paper copies so I can refer to it many times.
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June, Brisbane
All the ebooks are very informative & convenient allowing me to read in my free time. They are helpful also in preparation for our upcoming convention in July which I hope to enter. Looking forward to seeing you at your workshops. Thank you for your time & effort putting together this education programme online.
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Deidre, NSW
It was a great way to keep up with the latest designs without having to travel.
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June, Queensland
The information was presented in a concise manner and the accompanied photos was very helpful as visual examples. A very professional presentation. As someone who wants to learn, but is only doing Floral Art as a hobby, I found the information useful and the cost affordable.
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from 73 reviewsDesigning to Win Uncommon Threads. The course provided the unusual opportunity to respond to a competition brief not once but twice. Using Mark’s detailed ebook as a guide to interpreting a marking scheme and competition brief. All participants produced a design. In a group forum we all received Mark’s insights and expert analysis, including advice on improvements and modifications. Producing a second design with this feedback. Mark held a second forum discussing the second design interpretation from the feedback given. Such a study in floral design and self improvement. Flower Thinking and Mark provide designers to tools to make considered choices in floral designing. I look forward to the next course and learning journey.
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I enjoyed the critiqued detail of the 1st design presented by participants in the theme Uncommon Threads. 2nd design was changed to improve its presentation to fill the brief of an opening Event for a fashion boutique.
The intriguing theme,"Uncommon threads", captured my attention and thinking. I initially thought this short course,"Designing to win", would be too challenging. I found that it was actually comprehensive, well organized and structured, and rewarding eventually. This course was about understanding the rules and schedule of a competition. It was about learning how to evaluate one's design for a competition against an essential list of marking criteria for judging. Mark conducted two virtual discussion forums fluently, meticulously and constructively by giving clear analysis with concise explanations. He posed questions and made suggestions on each participant's design in #1 submission. The task of improving/adjusting/changing in order to achieve a better outcome became the necessary challenge for #2 submission.
The learnings from all the other submissions was just as important as those of mine. After having completed this course, I gained a better understanding of the entire process of designing to win and the crucial decision making that hinged on the points/marks for judging. The "wow factor" which can contribute to winning can be achieved by more critical evaluation of a design. Learning to be a better designer is always my aim in participating in Mark's courses. I truly felt that I achieved it and it was a likely "win" for me. The instructional eBooks and video tutorials on competitions were valuable bonuses given after completion of the course.
Thank you, Mark, for this great opportunity to learn from you.
Excellent course, I learnt a lot just need to put it into practice now.😊
I thought it was a great course! I learnt a lot from the in depth evaluations of each design, and I think the true value of the course can be seen in the huge improvements of all the submitted designs. Thank you Mark.
Very informative,
One Container, Five Elements expanded my design processes and choices. Analysing the container and looking for a link to each of the five elements. Focusing on one element was a disciplined journey, one that became more complex the further I travelled along the path, albeit a rewarding journey. On reflection it allowed me to consider my choices and to give each element of design a voice in my arrangements. I likened it to a choir where one voice may lead but if the supporting harmonies are not in pitch the whole auditory experience is not quite right. I found myself falling to my favourite elements and constantly self-evaluating to see what was often needed, often editing rather than adding. During the group feedback sessions, I gained new eyes not only on my own work but that of my peers. Such a rewarding experience.
I am thrilled to have found Designing to Win classes. Mark is an excellent teacher, looking at the work from both a competitor's and evaluator's point of view. I learned so much watching his thorough critiquing of each design and suggestions on improvements. I would love to try this as a competitor next time. A great educational experience!
Festive Thinking expanded my design process. Mark’s books and video explained the task clearly and with detailed instructions and examples. The feedback session was informative providing suggestions on improvement and self reflection on the design created. Mark’s detailed analysis gives insights into the application of the elements and principles of design. I enjoyed the course and look forward to the next Flower Thinking offering.
This course is totally fabulous, taking one container and working with that in totally different ways with the focus on each of the Elements of design really make you think. Using the container as a starting point for inspiration but then pushing it on alternative ways is most refreshing. Mark's feedback and guidance throughout is so clear and well thought out and is delivered both verbally and in writing. This course is a great opportunity to learn from a master... But it is also self lead in that you choose your own design and work to stretch yourself in what ever way you like. So good I am considering a second round using different container.
That the Festive Thinking courses are extremely worthwhile, cost effective and so convenient to be able to watch the videos at home and then revue at one's leisure.
Each task or assignment for this course pushes you to think more about placement of components in order to ensure that the elements and principles of design are used to create a harmonious result. Mark encourages creativity by providing examples before leaving you to work in your own way, this is incredibly stimulating. All feedback provided is done in a positive way which encourages you to assess your own work better each time - however I still manage to repeat some of the same faults over and again ;) so plenty more to learn.