Category: Interior Design vs. Interior Decorators
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UTAH PASSES COMMERCIAL INTERIOR DESIGN PRACTICE BILL!
Utah Senate Bill 0117 which allows state certified Commercial Interior Designers to submit signed and sealed drawings (within limited scope) in order to obtain building permits in that state was approved today. Yay! This is the first substantial piece of ID legislation to be approved in several years. Kudos to IDEAL Utah and their lobbyist…
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ASID Counters Claims of Racial Bias In the Interior Design Profession
Wow……..the anti-ID regulationists finally played the race card. ASID’s counter statement is well written. Let’s hope it is well read. https://www.asid.org/content/asid-defends-interior-designer-capital-hill All that said, the licensed design professions have struggled to increase racial diversity. We acknowledge this and from my experience there is, and has been, a concerted effort to address this issue. To claim…
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Hey Farooq…..Maybe it’s Time to Change Your Business Model
http://www.newstimes.com/business/article/Ethan-Allen-re-ups-CEO-next-up-designers-6551652.php Maybe, just maybe, if you considered Interior Design as valuable service and not a free hook to lure in the occasional big sale your staff might earn a bit more respect and increase their sales, and your profit, via ethical business practices. But what do I know?
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POSITIVE PRESS AND THE REGULATED INTERIOR DESIGN MESSAGE
It is rare when PROFESSIONALINTERIORDESIGNER comes across a mainstream press article that actually discusses professional Interior Design as we know it. 95% is simply innately talented interior decorators posing as qualified interior designer pabulum. 4% are articles targeting Interior Design regulations as a prime example of government over-reach and the remaining 1% is simply too…
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Defining Our Right to Work
Or in other words….what is our “work” and do we really have a “right” to it? PROFESSIONALINTERIORDESIGNER stumbled across this missive from the recent American Institute of Architects State Government Network forum. http://www.aia.org/aiaucmp/groups/aia/documents/pdf/AIAB106707.pdf I can only assume that this presentation was not meant to be public knowledge and would not be surprised if the link…
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ANOTHER LOOK AT INTERIOR DESIGN LEGISLATION
OR 54% ≠ 17% Ask any professional interior designer how many states have Interior Design laws on the books and you might get a range of puzzled looks to quasi-knowledgable swags at a number. The common message touted by ID organizations is that a little more than 1/2 of the states legislate Interior Design or somewhere…
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HOW DO WE ADVOCATE FOR THE PROFESSION OF “INTERIOR DESIGN”?
Kudos to Emily Kluczynski, IIDA’s Director of Advocacy, Public Policy, and Legislative Affairs for putting this presentation together. Evidently this was presented to IIDA members in Colorado back in February. This is the most imformative and entertaining take on the issue of professional recognition and legal/political advocacy that I have seen come out of any…
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PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS- MEANINGFUL ACRONYM OR JUST A BUNCH OF LETTERS
If you have visited PROFESSIONALINTERIORDESIGNER.COM before you know that I have a thing for titles and professional recognition…okay it’s an obsession….but if you are back maybe you understand the importance of this issue as it relates to “Interior Design” and our particular identity crisis. I have posted previously on the effort by the lighting design…
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THIS IS “INTERIOR DESIGN”…..All you need is an app and an iPad
http://www.tapglance.com/ TapGlance – Photo realistic interior design on your iPad http://prmac.com/release-id-74151.htm “No Experience Needed-TapGlance does not require any prior experience with professional CAD (Computer Aided Design) or 3D software.” ……..silly me….thinking I needed an education, years of experience and a license. The moral of this story….errr…the point of this post is that as long as…
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Here’s a New Title to Consider
How about Registered Design Practitioner? I know…..I know….PROFESSIONALINTERIORDESIGNER tends to get way hung up on titles and credentials and the semantic implications thereof. OCD? Maybe. Insane? Duh! So it appears that the Illinois Interior Design Coalition (IIDC) has introduced a bill in which Illinois Registered Interior Designers, and other qualified Interior Designers, will be able…
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