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Welcome to IIDA’s student blog. We hope that this interior design blog will become a forum for our IIDA students to exchange ideas, stay up-to-date on some of the latest interior design trends, and will also allow IIDA to continue to communicate and learn about issues important to our Student Members. Feel free to share this blog with fellow students! We look forward to reading your comments!
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Good morning from Ava Living.
Finals must be on everyone’s minds today, with the holiday season events a close second. Good luck to you all in your exams. As the colleges and universities in the US and around the world are emptied, students will return home to spend holidays with your families and friends. To you I say, Best of the Holidays.
I admit, I must have the best job in the world. I converse daily with students, designers, architects, artists, and thought leaders around the globe about the state of interior design. To the world’s design students, I know that the recessionary specter sets a grey pallor over your professional outlook. The practice of design has suffered in Great Britain, China, Singapore, Argentina, India, Egypt, and here; I am daily reminded by my many designer friends around the globe of the economic gloom.
But I believe the future for interior design is brighter than ever. While recessions come and pass the need for designers will only grow, as the affluence that was once just the pearl of the western world, is now shared in Brazil, Russia, China, India, Egypt. Great design truly knows no borders, no boundaries, but speaks it’s own language, the international language of Design. From this shared economic hardship, the people of the world will emerge more united in purpose. And the needs for your creativity, your dreams, your designs will be more needed than ever before.
Please have a wonderful holiday.
David Bassett-Parkins
Founder and CEO of Ava Living
http://www.avaliving.com
I wish you would be more proactive with alerting students of interior design to the efforts of the Interior Design Protection Council and the Institute for Justice to de-professionalize the profession of interior design. This is not a minor threat but a well organized affront to anyone who is serious about pursuing academic and professional credentials in the field of interior design.
I do not know how to make the importance any clearer than the efforts of these groups is going to render your career path irrelevant. I am not promoting my effort but out of desperation I have created a facebook page which offers information on both sides of the issue. I hope students can educate themselves on the issues and I trust they can form their own opinion of the issue.
THANK YOU
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=89795832315
Are there opportunities for our company to sponsor an upholstery design competition with your group? We’re have started one this semester with the Harrington School of Design and we would like to expand to other groups as well.