Brian Lin

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Belmont, CA

United States

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University
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Have you taken the BeLoose Workshop?
Many times... many more times as a TA

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  • Ana Teves-Castro

    HI Brian..nice website you and Mike got going...I'm still getting acquainted with it...
    Ana
  • Betty Chen

    Dear Brian: great to see you launching an new era, I can see you are enjoy it. It's your right career, you will get big feedback from it . So,加油( Cheer up )!
  • Dave Englander

    Hey Brian, glad to be here. This is shaping up to be a really great resource. I've been hired to do some floor plan renderings for a hotel here in Costa Rica. Do you have any hand drawn floor plan examples you could show me? Thanks, and keep up the good work.
  • Margaret Robertson

    Thanks Brian!
  • Dave Englander

    Hey Brian, any luck finding some floor plan examples? Specifically I'm interested in how to ground the drawing with foliage and whatnot around the building. Thanks a lot man.
  • Dana Bondi

    Hi Brian,
    Thanks so much! My professor told us about the website and its very interesting!
    -Dana
  • Dave Englander

    Very nice. I'm a big fan of the sidebars with precedent ideas. Some of my professors in the past have told me precedents don't belong on my boards but I think they're an important part of the process. Glad to see you think so too :)
  • Gail Ann Klein

    Thanks for the cheery note!
    No, sorry Brian, Stanford has neither architecture, landscape architecture nor horticulture, worse luck. Only Berkeley has a MA LA program, maybe Arch. Too.
    My husband teaches here; I’m a landscape designer. I think this site will be very helpful.
    Gail
  • Bill Kisich

    Thanks, Brian. Great looking site here.
  • Denise Santiago

    Hello Brian,
    Thanks for the welcome,
    I took a webinar you gave with the guys from Land 8 Lounge last semester.
    ;) Denise
  • Fulya Mavituna

    Thanks Brian. I'm glad to be here =)
  • Tiky Yuen

    hey Brian, glad to see you here and working like Mike. :) please say hi to your family for me, are you coming to Toronto with Mike in Dec?

    Tiky
  • Kari Moreno Ramírez

    hi brian!! how about?? how about mee?? =)
  • David Marigmen

    Pretty close there Brian, it's actually a Dodge Challenger. But good eye they're very much alike. It's great to be part of the beloose website. thanks
  • Beth Huntley

    Thanks, Brian It looks like a cool site!
  • Marie Smith

    Hi Brian, and thank you again for the invitasion.
  • Thomas Rodrigues

    Thanks for the welcome note, Brian. Any plans to bring your workshop down to South Florida?
  • Jennifer de Graaf

    Brian - THANKS! I wonder if we could have groups or some way of tagging renderings with the medium used? Like "watercolor" "colored pencil" and "marker"? Esp. since this is all about graphics.
  • Jennifer de Graaf

    world series: Following, yes. Watching, no. GO giants.

    YAY! I would love to be able to search images for examples of different media. yay!
  • Justin Bruno

    Really enjoyed the workshop. I hope to pass along how valuable it is to others. Keep up the great (and very inspirational} work!
  • Quynh Pham

    Thank you for the warm welcome! I'm excited about being a part of the Beloose community!
  • Clare Borsari

    Great workshop in Knoxville! Thank you!
  • Ryan Waggoner

    Hey Brian, great to be here! When are we running another webinar? Congrats on the Giants win too....
  • Jennifer DeCiantis

    Hi Brian. The first workshop I took was January '98 in Manhattan, KS. The second was a workshop at Virginia Tech a few years later. I was also a TA at a workshop in KS (July 2001, I believe).
  • Jennifer DeCiantis

    And by the way.... congrats to the Giants!
  • Pete Williams

    Hi Brian,
    We share that NBBJ experience. It was a great one for me. Glad to reconnect with your dad and the workshop.
    Best,
    Pete
  • Peter Punzi

    I am interested in attending the SF 2 day workshop in August 2011 and I need to submit to my college for funding the trip. The website doens't have precise info on the time lines for the days (I know the other ones mention 14hr days) This would allow a stay the day before and day after. Also when you click on register it only gives you the week long option. I will need to get my request to my college in by December.
    Thanks,
    Peter
  • Sean O'Connell

    Thank you Brian. I am a huge fan of yours and Mike's work. I've learned so much from the books and would love to attend a workshop someday. Any chance there will be a workshop on the east coast in the future? Thanks.

    Sean
  • Farshad Ashouri

    Thanks Brian, I am very impressed with this web site. I especially like the discussions and photo section. I am also excited to see beautiful works done by all these great artists in this site.
  • Hieu

    Hey Brian,

    Really glad you and Mike could drop by my school for the demo. I am not sure if you're presentation and approach is the same way as your dad, but I really enjoy his push positive-attitude and his comical stories that goes with his artwork. I also like how his passion and hardwork shows in all of his art as well as this site. Even though I am graduating every this year, I hope you guys can come again so the underclassmen can be inspired if not anything else.

    Best wishes,
    Hieu
  • Tim Huinker

    Brian,
    I need to get a copy of the reciept for the materials I bought from you at the PLANET workshop. Can you help me with that.
    Tim
  • Tim Huinker

    Brian,
    I left a CC # with you. Markers, book and graphs.
  • donna j. schratwieser

    thank you Brian.... looking forward to learning... hope you can get to the east coast sometime soon to do a workshop... thanks. donna
  • Ki Park

    Hi Mr.Lin,

    Thanks! I was wondering if you knew about the workshop tomorrow at Cal Poly in the Fishbowl Gallery...I have class until 4 PM and the workshop starts 3 PM. I would love to go but I will be an hour late. Do you know if that would be alright?
  • Karen Sherman

    Thanks, Brian! Very exciting website! Can't wait to read all the articles!
  • Luke dune

    Thanks Brian, thanks for all the free info. on the website!
  • Tammy Martin

    Thanks Brian. I'm looking forward to looking around the site. While I haven't been able to attend a workshop, Drawing and Designing with Confidence has been a very useful tool
  • shengyi yue

    Hey Brian, I am interested in the workshop in Las Vegas this January~ I am going alone and worried about the accommodation. I talked to Jean Kim and she said you guys will arrange it for me. Could you tell me more information about that? such as the location and the price. I would really appreciate your help! best wishes.
  • Marie Smith

    thank you Brian :)))
  • Fareena Khaliq

    Thank you so much Brian ..your website is a dream come true! I live in the Middle East and hope to attend the workshop in 2011 !! :)
  • Quynh Pham

    Thank you Brian! I hope you had a good Thanksgiving! :)
  • Dan Cross

    Thanks!  I'm nor sure I'm too excited about becoming another year older!  What can I do though??!!
  • karen newsom

    Hi Brian, thanks for the birthday wishes.
    Karen
  • Kit Ary

    Thank You Brian - I really like the web site and am looking forward to exploring it further. Hope you are all well.

    Kit
  • Sarah Morris

    awww =D thank you!!
  • Raehee Jang

    Hi Brian,

    I attended the workshop this past summer.

    Rae
  • John Yancey

    Hi Brian,

     

    Thanks for checking in.  Prior to Photoshop color, I scan all of my line drawings at 300dpi.  In rare cases higher, if it's for a jobsite billboard, but 99.9% of the time I use 300.

     

    Thanks.

     

    John

  • Terry Johansen

    Hi, Brian,

     

    I took the workshop in the summer of '04.  I had just finished my first year in the MLA program at the University of Arizona.  I wasn't too happy with the classes being taught so I was debating whether to stop when I thought I'd give Mike's workshop a shot.  It was terrific in the sense that he really instilled in me the feeling that we are designers and that is really the essense of this profession.  Anyway, I went on to finish the program with much more enthusiasm and got a job at a firm in Tucson.

     

    Unfortunately the economic crash ended that job, but hopefully things will pick up again in Tucson.  Good luck with this site; it's encouraging to see people like yourself and Mike work hard to energize this profession at the grass roots level.  Mike should be given credit for all the barnstorming work that he's done.

     

    Terry Johansen 

  • Aimee

    Hi Brian - quick question: I thought I saw somewhere online that you are offering another 12 day seminar in Vegas from May 23 - June 3, 2011. Are you? I can't seem to find info on any spring seminars on ur website. I've been receiving your e-mails/newsletter for over a year & think I really need to attend your 12 day program to take this skill to the next level in my career. I'm not able to attend the Jan 2011 one because I'm in Singapore right now on a 6 week work sabbatical from my job in the US, working on an MFA research project & scoping out the job market here.
    Thanks!
    Aimee
  • Karen Sherman

    Thank you, Brian!  I enjoy your website and have number of friends who have subscribed to it now also.  Keep up the great work!