Do you know what your answer would be if someone asked you what you want to have as a career? I know that my answer would be that I want a career in interior design. Interior designers evaluate, organize, coordinate, and design better living and working spaces. They require both artistic and business skills in order to do their job properly. Because I enjoy many of the aspects of an interior designer’s job, I chose this career to learn more about.
The job of an interior designer is to create a space that meets their client’s needs by using decorations, lighting, colors, and patterns (“Interior Designers” para. 2). Interior designers focus on how colors, textures, furniture, lighting, and space affects a building and its appearance (“Interior Designer Career” para. 1). They create designs that can help raise productivity, sell merchandise, and improve lifestyle (“Interior Designer” What’s para. 1). Most designers have a specialty or certain style of a building or space they they work on, and others may work for home furnishing stores (“Interior Designers” para. 11). Going through the process that an interior designer goes through to make a design is time consuming. They begin with the first step which is called programming (“Interior Designer Career” para. 4). This first step is like an evaluation; the designer meets with the client, determines their needs, wishes, preferences, and budget, and surveys their working space (“Interior Designer Career” para. 4). Once the client’s information is gathered, the designer will normally use CAD software to create a design and estimate the cost of their plan (“Interior Designer Career” para. 5). After the design plan is finished, the designer has to figure out what materials, finishes, ...
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...r Licensed Interior Designer will be given (“Interior Design Career” para. 21). To maintain this licensure, continued education is required (“Interior Designer Career” para. 21). For an interior designer to be promoted, one to three years of training is needed (“Interior Designer Career” para. 25).
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When we were little, we thought the word “Career” was not a big deal, but as a senior in high school, the word has become our reality as we start to finish our last semester. The question we’ve been asked all these years is, what do you want to be when you grow up? But our answer is simple: we don’t want to grow up. As an innocent kid it seemed like the time would never come, but it has. It’s time to get serious and really ponder this question.
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Italian art and culture changed numerous times throughout history, bringing about some of the world’s most unique and beautiful design concepts. While many marvel at the beauty of magnificent architecture, one-of-a-kind paintings, and breathtaking sculptures, the interiors of these buildings were just as remarkable. Rebirth of classical architecture became prominent along with the notion of an ideal city, where proportions were of the upmost importance. Many early interior architects used patterns and colors, along with strategically placed furniture, to create rooms of unity and proportion. With the architectural rediscovery of classical design, artisans and designers of the time were called upon to create interiors that met those needs.
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The most crucial skill for an Interior Designer to have is time management. An Interior Designer can not procrastinate in this field, especially in the commercial area. Commercial designers have a strict deadline to meet since their clients are mostly corporations. Corporations set a project budget for a certain quarter of a year because the design part is expensive and it needs to be planned out ahead of time. Also, the designer may be designing the space for a special event such as a Christmas party, banquet, etc. In their book, Designing Your Future, Beacham, McFall, and Park-Gates state “Contract design is characteristically deadline driven, and clients have high expectations for fast turn-around on designs. This pressure can cause a high level of stress in design offices” (66). This quote illustrates that the main causes of stress in the Interior Design profession are the deadli...
Client(s) may be in the first stage of our design thinking sequences (Archer, 1984, p. 67), and then the designer job is to explore what is the problem, what do we want, what do they need: to produce a design to meet the requirements. The initial design problem presented to the designer may be poorly and incompletely described (McDonnell, 1997, p. 45...
- Freedom in esthetic and design - Determination of the production costs before the execution of work
Throughout the world, there are an abundance of diverse cultures, each truly unique in comparison to another. Culture is described as the “characteristics of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts” (Zimmermann). Each of these traits is what sets each society apart, and is what influences their expression of design. Throughout this course, we’ve learned how planning and design have varied all through history, however we decided to take it a step further and focus on how different regions throughout the world create spaces that reflect their own cultures’ particular interests. Being a group composed entirely of Interior Design majors, our emphasis is investigating the use of material, color, motifs and layouts of their interior spaces, and how they reflect their societies. Not only do we explore a culture’s influence on design, but we briefly touch on environmental factors as well. Of all of the regions throughout the world, we decided to focus our research on the cultural practices and designs of Mexico, India, and Japan. Our reasoning behind centering on these three cultures is that these cultures are some of the most well-known, yet each entirely distinct within their own way, thus providing a greater understanding of design styles around the world.
Interior design is one of the most important professions. When thinking of design and architecture industry, it is necessary to keep in mind that the professionals emphasis on matters of everyday life when commencing a project. Important sectors of interior design consist of: residential, commercial, hospitality, healthcare, education and corporate designs. Thus, the field deals with numerous factors and affects almost everyone in some way. Design is goal-oriented– it strives to achieve a certain purpose. An essential goal of interior design is to create functional spaces that convey a specific mood for an audience using design elements, thus outlining a design for communities versus individuals.
Interior design is a complicated profession. It is sometimes referred to as interior architecture and often confused with interior decorating. It involves the design, organization and planning of an interior structure rather than just refinishing and furnishing existing interior spaces. It involves managing a business, hopefully meeting the desires of the client and delivering to them an interior environment that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing. There is a lot more to interior design than first meets the eye.
Imagine designing a dream home with all the color and space conceivable. This illustrates the work of an interior designer. A "schemer, intriguer, or plotter," could prosper in a career of design (dictionary.com, 'designer'). A career in interior design allows innate abilities of creativity and organization to be practiced in satisfying a client's desire for style and flare in their home or workplace.
My ideal career would allow me to do something that interests me. I enjoy working with words and with numbers. I've also had success in the areas of technology and customer service.
All together the career of becoming an interior designer is a career that I could see myself pursuing because it has many interest that I would like to explore and also it is a career that I see as a great beginning for the future of my adult life into becoming a more better and skilled designer whether it’s an interior designer or fashion designer or graphic designer.