Category: Minnesota Interior Design Regulation
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MINNESOTA INTERIOR DESIGNERS PUSH FOR PRACTICE ACT
Minnesota now becomes the front line for the push to legally recognize qualified interior designers to be licensed to practice as peers with, or independent of, other licensed design professionals in that state. Minnesota is fortunate that it is the symbolic home base to the pro regulation effort. Unfortunately for them the Institute for Justice…
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ON BEING A C.I.D.
Like calling a tissue Kleenex, regardless of who made it, interior design will always be inexorably linked to interior decoration and all of its drama, divas and stereotypes. Interior design was cleaved from the bosom of interior decoration- we are forever genetically linked- hard as we try to monkey with the gene pool. I firmly…
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What We Have Here…..
Well maybe those who decorate should just call themselves interior “artists”. Certainly would save us all a lot of bad public relations.
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How ’bout a Day of Service?
While PROFESSIONALINTERIORDESIGNER respects the cause and the effort, the platform seems so…I don’t know….80’s. ASID’ers are certainly free to focus their public relations efforts on the wealthy. But maybe it’s time to reassess your organizations values. The comments are telling.
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Is it Interior Architecture or is it Memorex?
Finally let’s give props to a firm that avoids the three partner last name moniker……20 Below Studios….in Minneapolis….PROFESSIONALINTERIORDESIGNER gives this firm 2 thumbs way up!
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Oh Okay We Were Just Goofin’ With Ya!
HEY YA KNOW ALL THAT EFFORT AND ANGST WE COERCED YOU TO INVEST IN OUR PROFESSION…JUST KIDDING!!!!! From an open letter in the December 2009 ASID Newsletter ICON I have just discovered that ASID no longer supports Interior Design regulation. That’s what I get for not being a member….. “That’s why the legislative agenda…
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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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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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