The other day I found my drawing archive! Even though I went to school in the digital age I used to visualise all of my projects by hand like this, including most of my final thesis project. I would "borrow" a stack of A4 paper from a school printer, find myself a desk and get to work. Eventually I found that it gave the best effect first to draw an image in pencil, scan it and print a copy, and then colour the scanned print with coloured pencils to preserve the lines. I would freestyle entire cities like this. After a while I got quite good at rendering light too. Some of these drawings are over 15 years old, and I have been drawing just about every day since. It is always neat to look back at old work sometimes for a reminder of how far one has progressed personally as a designer. Naturally I see some of these and think "What was I thinking there!?!" (laughs). It is also clear that few people have botched more perspective than me. But we persist! I have an absolutely insane number of

Pages from my sketchbooks, March-April 2026. A variety as usual, including building studies, watercolours and future urban environments from my imagination. ***

A series of illustrations that I created for my Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/adamic_studio/) to give a short introduction to the elements of the Japanese-style tea garden. These spaces represent a wonderful combination of two of my favourite things: tea and gardens. ***

Some recent concept boards and drawings from various projects that I have been working on recently: blue-green infrastructure, Japanese-style tea gardens and dwellings integrated with plant societies. I always like to explore ideas in this way, especially early on in the design process. I draw these free-hand on an iPad in the Procreate app. ***

Various pages from my sketchbooks, January - February 2026. A veritable concatenation of seemingly intractable phenomena: house ideas, the Buddha, Toyota Land Cruisers, girls, classical facade studies and emperor penguins. Who needs computers? ***

Concept sketches of ideas for greenhouses/winter gardens. I am interested in how dwellings can be integrated with plant systems, because there is increasingly a lack of unique personality in living spaces and I think it is possible to create closer connections between well-being, ecology and the organisation of space. People like to live with plants, and very few spaces give them the opportunity to do so. One solution is to integrate a greenhouse into a house. I have always had a personal affinity for spaces that are intended specifically to be filled with plants. In addition to supporting productive plant societies, these can become semi-climatised living rooms that also can be used to pre-heat ventilation air, strengthen natural ventilation, capture and store heat and filter greywater. This is something we should see a lot more of, especially in cold climate regions. ***