Tag: IIDA
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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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PONDERING THE CASE FOR A NATIONAL REGULATED INTERIOR DESIGN BOARD
For several years now I have been lamenting the lack of a unified and cohesive professional identity for those interior designers who work within code regulated interior environments. My position has evolved over several years…of endless rants and debates, but ultimately I maintain that we (the code regulated) are much more than “Interior Designers”- at…
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OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS
PROFESSIONALINTERIORDESIGNER has previously posted about Architecture’s image problems. Because Architecture is, for better or worse, our bastard step-father (metaphor stretch for amusement only) we need to be mindful that not all is comfy cozy in their professional house. Indirectly there are lessons to be learned and in this case I believe there is a big…
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PAYING THE PROFESSION FORWARD
How does a profession grow and prosper? PROFESSIONALINTERIORDESIGNER has been involved recently in several discussions in which the issue of required work experience (AKA apprenticeship) and how to best earn it is the topic. All professions rely on their members to apprentice under the supervision of established professionals in order to…
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IIDA STEPS UP ADVOCACY EFFORT
SEE 10/01/14 Update below In case you missed it the Huffington Post, bastion of the highest journalism standards, posted a commercial rant by an Institute for Justice blogbot that denounced the value of regulating Interior Designers; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-gowins/arbitrary-interiordesign-_b_5830782.html?utm_hp_ref=business&ir=Business Which of course prompted the obligatory defense on several LinkedIn groups….. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Message-from-IIDA-HQ-Advocacy-103871.S.5920610210409365508?trk=groups_items_see_more-0-b-ttl https://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=956917&type=member&item=5918065460737232897&trk=groups_most_popular-0-b-ttl&goback=.gmp_956917 https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Should-interior-designers-be-licensed-4361021.S.5918475262357446656?trk=groups_most_popular-0-b-ttl&goback=.gmp_4361021 Many of which devolved…
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THE MISINFORMED CONTINUE TO MISINFORM THE PUBLIC REGARDING INTERIOR DESIGN
https://www.facebook.com/instituteforjustice/photos/a.10151222399244815.554360.49059279814/10153007777114815/?type=1&relevant_count=1 This is a facebook page- if you do not have access to facebook then I congratulate you. Just one more reason we (the ID professionals) have got to distance ourselves from this madness.
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CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTS LOBBY FOR END AROUND CERTIFIED INTERIOR DESIGNERS
Seems the California Council of the AIA (or a related chapter) is trying to corner the market on the permit review process in California under the guise of assisting over worked/over burdened and under staffed building permit departments. California Assembly Bill 2192, ( http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2192 )which is currently in committee, proposes a limited pilot program that…
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TIME FOR A NEW SCHISM?
Okay fellow ID Professionals time for a history lesson; http://www.idlny.org/history-of-interior-design Kudos to IDLNY for posting this great information on the history of Interior Design. For those of you who took the time to follow the time line and note the various shifts in external influences affecting the evolution of the interior design profession as well…
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Pitching a New Mantra- AGAIN
Well it’s been about 2 years since I trotted out this proclamation and while there has been some positive movement toward this vision….we are still singing too many songs from too many hymnals. It’s time to re-post; ONE VOICE – ONE CREDENTIAL – ONE MISSION © 2012 PROFESSIONALINTERIORDESIGNER ONE VOICE: We need to have one…
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INTERIOR DESIGN REGULATION- NOT TOO POLITICAL, COMPLICATED OR ABSTRACT
“…..Yet when it comes to taking action to advance the practice, many designers feel overwhelmed. The entire topic can seem too complicated, too political, too abstract. It doesn’t have to be.” Hmmmm….now you tell me. Guess it depends on how you define “too”. http://www.iida.org/resources/content/8/0/7/8/documents/AdvocateIIDA_Brochure_Final_SmallSize.pdf Props to IIDA and the IIDA Northern Pacific Chapter for trying…
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