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10.27.08 | Is it interesting to anyone else that while commercial interior designers are begging for respect from the architectural community, they simultaneously shun equally qualified residential interior designers
and highly knowledgeable manufacturers reps for that matter?
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10.13.08 | I was unlucky enough to be graduating from college and launching my interior design career in 2002, which was much more than the second year of the new millennium: it was the year after 9-11. Of course, Interior Design school barely prepares one for the business of Interior Design itself, let alone the placement of our business in greater sphere of world events.
9.8.08 | The setting is a small auditorium space near the center of São Paulo, Brazil. Men and women in suits are chatting as seated participants untangle their language translation headsets. A projection screen glows with the U.S. Green Building Council logo in front of the table arranged for panelists. The flags on formal flagpoles stand at attention in the corner, reminding me of the Brazilian love affair with bureaucratic measures.
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2.4.08 | Please indulge me in a scenario. You are a designer working on the interior finishes for an elementary school, and you are pulling together the first schematic color palette for client review. To do this, you have narrowed the colors down to a handful of options. As we know, there is no absolute right or wrong way to do this, and perhaps the route changes each time. However, do you ever step back to wonder: How did I confidently move from point A to point B?
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12.17.07 | Though architects and interior designers have marginalized societal concerns from their agendas for a few decades, they are again realizing that interior design is a profession uniquely positioned to tackle issues on three major levels: individual, social and environmental. For those who yearn to develop a more comprehensive approach in both design education and practice, the framework developed by Linda Groat, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan provides an interesting starting point for the discussion.
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11.26.07 | This time last year, I found myself sitting at my desk in a Miesian high-rise caught between meetings with reps, meetings with clients, a world of conscious decisions to make, and 60 seconds to make each one (trying to remain inspired all the while). This was the glamorous life of a commercial interior designer. Was I really ready to give all of this up to go back to school? The answer had always been an underlying yes. Now that I am back in academics, that yes is taking on new dimensions. In this pioneering article of Crosscurrents, I will share my journey into academics: the story about how I packed my pragmatics, retrieved my idealism from off-site storage, and moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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