Category: Safety and Welfare
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ANOTHER LOST OPPORTUNITY FOR INTERIOR DESIGNERS…or is it?
Okay off of my legislation/regulation high horse for a moment….”whoaaa Nellie…somebody get me a step stool…” Even PROFESSIONALINTERIORDESIGNER missed this trend when it first became public over a year ago. Seems some entrepreneurial real estate developers are trying to weasel in our Health Safety and Welfare trifecta by creating residential real estate that literally improves…
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Knick Knack THIS!
“But that know-how doesn’t come cheap. Interior designers charge upwards of $200 per hour—knick-knacks not included” PROFESSIONALINTERIORDESIGNER is glad that he is not prone to violence. However spontaneous combustion does run in his family.
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…and now for some good PR.
Here is a great article about a Florida State Interior Design graduate- Kudos to Jill Pable and the FSU program!
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NOW THIS IS WHAT WE NEED TO SEE MORE OF
http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/topofthetimes/features/la-hm-cobb-20100522,0,1292447.story This story warms PROFESSIONALINTERIORDESIGNER’S heart…..this is an example of the benefit that competent, compassionate and trained interior designers can provide to society. THIS IS THE WELFARE ASPECT OF “TO PROTECT THE HEALTH SAFETY AND WELFARE” of the public that is so hard to define yet is so critical to distinguishing our professional domain from those…
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Is It A New Pair-A-Dime Or…….
The pretty picture of some unlivable or unworkable interior tableau is becoming our professional albatross. Many of our so-called Interior Design trade magazines continue to ahem….dwell on the image and not the substance. I have experienced many an interior space that photographed well but was unlivable. Why do we continue to celebrate this?
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MYOPIC VITRIOLE OR VISIONARY EMPOWERMENT
I have been thinking about this issue way more than most sane people……..Unfortunately defining the professional domain of Interior Design is a mind numbingly complex, confusing, and completely debatable issue. I certainly understand why many of my peers avoid it like the plague. In our case (the United States) we have convinced ourselves that it…
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It’s Getting Nasty in the Interior Design Sandbox
Okay the IDPC is on a roll…the rhetoric is amazing. Here are the 10 ways decisions by designers can impact the health safety and welfare of the public as written by the IDLPCA (Pennsylvania Pro-Legislation Group) http://www.idlcpa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=28 While I do not think the examples are compelling enough to deem government regulation necessary, the point is that…
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