Tag: IIDA
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INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE vs. INTERIOR DESIGN
So my point here folks is there are many of us who believe that the term/title “Interior Design” no longer applies. It is a liability. It fails to describe us. Okay I do not disagree. But if we are going to keep our collective head in the proverbial professional sand while this title shift occurs…
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IIDA Steps Up to Forge Agreement with Food Service Equipment Distributors
Wow two positive efforts to advocate for the Interior Design profession in one week (see previous post). This time it is IIDA that ironed out an agreement with FEDA which is an allied association that represents commercial food service equipment distributors. FEDA has been a long term opponent of most, if not all, recent ID…
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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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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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HERE WE GO AGAIN- LOUISIANA ID LAW UNDER ATTACK
I can only assume that IIDA & ASID & IDEC & CIDA & All state Interior Design Coalitions are aware that Louisiana’s Interior Design practice law is being threatened and that they are working together to one, form a strategy to mitigate negative fallout from this campaign and two, martial a concerted legal and policy…
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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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