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where to start when going for an interior design career?

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:08:26 +0000

I’ve done some research but I got a little confused with all the different certifications, and degrees there are for interior design or home staging careers. I don’t know wich will be best to go for. Can anybody tell me what will be the best thing to do to start a career in any of these two fields and be able to get great oportunities once done with education?

I guess you should start doing make over services to get experience and after that, it is a time to applying on some company that hiring interior design jobs and get big salary.

What is the traditional interior design for a home built 1920?

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:02:03 +0000

I’d like to know what was typical in interior design for a home in this period. I’m buying a cottage style home built in 1920, and I’d love to integrate some of the traditional style with my contemporary taste. What was popular in color, line, etc? Any suggestions for websites that I can check out would be so appreciated =) Thanks!

Here are a few links to give you visuals.

Design would be significant to the area and local resources. …For instance if there was a rock quarry nearby you would see stone walks. 1920 was the onset of the "Honeymoon Cottage" in the beach communities. You will find heavily influenced "Edwardian Period" and the beginnings of "Art Deco". Egyptian and oriental influences were common. Black and reds were used in coloring and Bright green, jade, turquoise, eau-de-nil, mint or peacock blue or deep blue, are all really gorgeous colors of the time, and contrast nicely with a pale grey. The Arts and Crafts era post WW1 was in swing. Or you can replicate the highly sought after Gustav Stickley homes. The rich had Greene and Greene, Frank Lloyd Wright and others as their Arts & Crafts-style architects. The poorer folk built Sears and Aladdin "kit" homes.

http://styles-and-periods.interiordezine.com/period_decoration/edwardian.html
http://www.chapmancottage.com/come06.htm
http://www.roomzaar.com/rate-my-space/Living-Rooms/1920s-Bungalow/detail.esi?oid=442056
http://images.google.ca/images?rlz=1T4ADBR_enCA307CA310&q=Gustav%20Stickley%20interior&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

How can you get started at a young age designing interiors and such?

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:16:56 +0000

I am 14, and i love interior design. I want to get a early start so i can be super good by the time in almost out of college so i can start my own carrer. How can i get started?

Honestly, it just takes time. It’s awesome that you know what you want to do though, but I think you’re jumping the gun. If you really want to, you can look into summer workshops for interior design, I’m sure they have some around somewhere. However, these summer camps usually cost money. Better than sitting around all summer, though, and you get hands on experience. And don’t forget that often you’d have to design for what the customer wants, not necessarily what you want. (However I’m sure you’ll have opportunities to go wild with your imagination!).
Essentially: try looking for colleges that offer summer camps.

What are the best colleges in the country for interior design?

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:52:14 +0000

I am a junior in high school and I am interested in pursuing interior design. I live in Santa Monica, so I am down the street from Los Angeles. I am curious as to what the most prestigious colleges are for interior design in the U.S. but I am most interested in the Los Angeles City area. Thanks!

I have been researching this too. I am about to graduate with a degree in something more general, so my options are a little bit limited compared to yours. However, I have found the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM), California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), California State University, Northridge (CSUN), Woodbury University, and Santa Monica College. These programs all look like they are worth finding out more information. Right now, I’m leaning toward choosing FIDM, but I’m still unsure.

Please, let me know which program you end up choosing and why. It will really help me in my own search. You can email me.

What is the difference between interior design and interior design+foundations for design?

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:51:08 +0000

I’m taking interior design in a year and ahalf for univeristy…
and I’m requesting the info right now.
but it gives to program choices…interior design and interior design with foundations for design?
Whats the difference?
which oen do i choose? I only want to be an interior designer.

You will need to check with whomever answers questions for your design program as to which one you should take; its impossible to answer for the data above exactly. That way you will get the best answer for your school. One may be for the degree & the other just an intro class etc.

How do you start an interior design business?

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:29:11 +0000

I’d like to start an interior design business. It’s my passion. And how do you get people to notice you or make you successful by giving you lots of business? Please help! Thanks!

Hi,

I found this awesome website and you can find more information, about your question,
Take your time to visit ,I hope this helps!

How do you start an interior design business?

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:29:11 +0000

I’d like to start an interior design business. It’s my passion. And how do you get people to notice you or make you successful by giving you lots of business? Please help! Thanks!

Hi,

I found this awesome website and you can find more information, about your question,
Take your time to visit ,I hope this helps!

What is the difference between Product Design, Interior Design and Graphic Design?

admin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:52:23 +0000

Is a career in Product Design lucrative? I can draw visualize and am creative, starting from scratch, are there any institutes in Mumbai? Is free lancing an option? Any search engine leads me to Interior Design and Graphic Design, Is Product Design a general term for both? Is a graduation in Hotel Management sufficient or engineering is compulsory? Please help!

They are all very different areas of design -

1) Product Design – the design of items we use everyday, it’s very vast really – designing furniture, appliances, phones, cars, could be anything even designing something like a cigarette lighter.
http://a1.vox.com/6a00f48d098900000100fad698eb790004-500pi

2) Interior Design – deals with the look of spaces inside a building/house: designing a wall that divides a big room, creating special lighting effects.
http://www.architecturesdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/architecture-design/2009/02/dellis-cay-villas-3.jpg

3) Graphic Design – designing images like posters, advertisments, websites.. maybe I should just say the word ‘Photoshop’ =)
http://th08.deviantart.com/fs16/300W/i/2007/184/6/6/Rock_Genesis_Poster_Design_by_yienkeat.jpg

To answer the rest of your question, Hotel Management has liitle to do with either 3 professions – that focuses more on tourism and taking care of a hotel – getting a hotel up & running, fixing up rooms for guests, arranging food & other services. Engineering has something to do with Product & Interior design, but they should incorporate the necessary skills into your course though so you won’t need to graduate as an engineer to build a room or a chair =)

What is the difference between Product Design, Interior Design and Graphic Design?

admin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:52:23 +0000

How hard is it to get into the Wedding Planning or Interior Design feilds?

admin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:28:11 +0000

I currently have a degree in Graphic Design, but I’ve been considering starting a Wedding planning buisiness or becoming an Interior Designer. I plan to go back to school either way, but I don’t know anyone in these fields. So I’m wondering how hard it is to get into these fields and be succesfull. I have a little experience doing both and think I’d really enjoy either one.
Thanks in advance!
I hadn’t really thought of commercial or domestic interior design. They would probably both be pretty rewarding. I suppose commercial would be a little better with larger budgets and customers probably have a clearer idea of what they want.

By Interior Design, do you mean commercial or domestic?

I’m a commercial interior designer, and generally it is not a difficult industry to enter, but you won’t get far without the skills and/or qualifications.

Domestic Interior Design is a difficult business as so much of it is about building a customer base and word of mouth. Once you have a good reputation, you can go far, but getting there can be a very long journey.

If you really, really want this, then be prepared for some very hard (but rewarding) work.

Good luck

Slim.

Additional :
Domestic – You are employed for your creative ideas, but then have to adapt/amend/concede to the ideas of the client, however good/bad there taste is.

With both, budgets are relative, but you can get to do some cool stuff if you’re lucky.

I could personally never do domestic, as I could never stand in front of somebody and tell them that there ideas are OK when I really think they stink (don’t mind doing it with commercial as it’s rarely personal)

Slim.