Category: IIDA
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CELEBRITY POSER OR “PROFESSIONAL” INTERIOR DESIGNER
http://www.observer.com/2010/style/zac-just-posen-interior-designer I don’t know Zach Posen but I respect his creativity and self promotion skills. He has excelled in the cat eat dog world of fashion design. And like several of his predecessors and peers he wants to broaden his occupational horizon to include interior decoration….woops sorry…ahem –Interior Design. So can he claim that he […]
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IT’S JUST A LICENSE HOW HARD CAN IT BE?
Okay so here we are some 37 years after the effort to regulate interior design began and the resistance to that effort seems to be getting stronger..or at least more effective. So what gives with all these people who are all bent out of shape because we want the government to sort out the decorators […]
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Minnesota Practice Act Legislation Tabled
Well this is unfortunate. I was unaware that the hearing was scheduled so soon. Please check out the list of those that supposedly attended in opposition. Also please consider the source but it is interesting that the NKBA and AIA were opposed. http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs060/1102107213116/archive/1103129436063.html Props to Caren Martin and the U of M folks for their […]
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Hey OVER HERE! Here’s the beef!
We (the certified Interior Designers) have lots of evidence proving our skills and knowledge in regard to health safety and welfare (HS&W). Knowing how to read ACT Textile Performance Guideline icons ain’t it. While safety is a primary goal (why would we do anything that is un “safe”) should one of our collective professional goals […]
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Health Safety & Welfare- Where’s the Beef?
The primary tenet of interior design regulation is that we (certified Interior Designers) are qualified to protect the health safety and welfare (HS&W) of the public. We are qualified by education, training and examination to do this and the general public needs to be protected from those that are not. It is our professional mantra. This […]
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The Interior Design/Nursing Parallax
OR Nurse! Nurse! Should I go with the Chartreuse or the Puce? Okay so I am guilty of being obtusely acerbic. While I take the issue of ID professionalism very seriously I have to humor myself to make it fun….at least for me. What the profession (as defined by NCIDQ) of Interior Design is dealing with is […]
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Blowback in Minnesota
While the pro-regulation effort in Minnesota is underway there is also a concerted effort to derail any propsed legislation. Interestingly the NKBA is the prime detractor or anti-regulation proponent. Frankly the anti’s have a more effective campaign. Note I did not judge whether they are correct or not. But it does not take a rocket […]
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ASID & IIDA or ASID vs. IIDA?
So this is where I really step in it…er on it..whatever. Others have discreetly discussed it behind closed doors. There have been some high level back room discussions over many years and some of my fellow academics have written an impassioned and scholarly vetted plea for the need of one organization to represent the professional domain of […]
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Apathy May Be Our Worst Enemy
Seems like a potential colossal waste of time to implement legislation and then not have the critical mass of participation to empower the state’s design professionals. I can only assume that ASID and IIDA are on alert.
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