The ASID Top 10: 2012 Edition
2012 was the best of times and the busiest times for ASID. As we prepare to ring in the new year, we look back at our Top 10 Milestones from 2012. 10. In 2012, we welcomed some new faces, including our...
View ArticleKnow What Celebrity and High-Earning Designers Do So You Can Achieve Better...
We discovered celebrity and high-earning designer’s secrets to financial and business success in the 2012 Fee & Salary Survey, and we’re ready to share them with you in the new 2013 Interior Design...
View ArticleDesigners: Mind Your Language
As interior designers strive for the professional recognition merited by our training and expertise, we constantly come up against those who seek to diminish the role of designers — often without even...
View ArticleInterior Design Industry Outlook for 2013: Continued but Modest Improvement
After several years of contraction that began with the onset of the Great Recession in 2008, the interior design industry is beginning to show signs of recovery. Compared to 2010, the number of...
View ArticleCreating Healthier Interiors with Healthier Products
What’s the most difficult aspect of designing: Resolving client issues? Space planning? Inspiration? For many designers, the hardest part is sourcing materials that are healthy, budget-friendly,...
View ArticleProject Goals Set a Sustainable Tone at Google
Google understands that its employees are its most valuable asset. They have spent a great deal of time, money and effort to establish healthy work environments as they expand their physical presence...
View Article2013 ASID Innovation Award Winner: Health Product Declaration Collaborative
The Health Product Declaration Collaborative is a customer-led organization for companies and individuals committed to the continuous improvement of the building industry’s environmental and health...
View ArticleASID Foundation Announces Call for Submissions for Workplace Design Research...
The ASID Foundation is pleased to announce the third annual interior design research grant program, Transform, to be awarded to design-related initiatives that address critical gaps in industry...
View ArticleCenters of Attention
Using color and common-sense strategies to relax and nurture kids with special needs. Savvy designers worth their salt know that red rooms can evoke feelings of excitement and anger, while blue rooms...
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Affluent Focusing on Quality of Life
Extravagance and unabashed indulgence in luxury have long been regarded as the fruits of great wealth. For many of today’s rich, that no longer holds true. Although spending on luxury products has...
View ArticleEngaging With Evidence: How Do You Measure a Practitioners’ Engagement?
Evidence-based design (EBD) is an innovation to the design process for design practitioners who strive to base design solutions on measurable outcomes. The issue is that of ‘evidence’—how it is...
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Today’s LED: Time to Make the Switch
As a veteran of the lighting industry with over 40 years of experience, I’ve seen a lot of lighting trends come and go. Remember recessed fluorescent lighting in the kitchen or floor to ceiling pole...
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What Makes A Space Gender Neutral?
Call it gender equality, gender parity or gender neutrality. As more and more women ascend to professional and leadership positions, businesses and organizations have striven to create cultures and...
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Values, Lifestyle Driving Home Design Choices
Location, location, location is the mantra familiar to every real estate agent, developer, builder, and prospective homebuyer. In today’s more mobile society, however, location is no longer all that...
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Maximizing Design Resources for Innovation
Interdisciplinary design helps solve complex design problems by bringing together various players in the built environment and other disciplines to create designs for the total human experience (see “A...
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From Learning Commons to Learning Communities
Millennial brains are just wired differently. This fact quickly became apparent when I started my new position in August as an assistant professor in the Department of Interior Design at the University...
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Personalized Learning Spaces
The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Foundation awards up to $100,000 annually for research through the Transform Grant. This year, a multidisciplinary team from the Center for Advanced...
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Standing Desks Can Improve Office Productivity and Mood
The workplace setting has become a key target for innovative wellness programs to encourage healthier and happier lifestyles. With the increase of sedentary behavior, encouraged by our televisions,...
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The Interconnected World of Interior Design
It’s complicated. It’s dynamic. It’s constantly changing, and at an accelerating rate, too. This is the world we live in. It’s a world comprised of many elements and factors which are intricately woven...
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Make Space for Rehab and Recovery
Interior environments that support users’ resilience are an emerging topic among designers. A person with resilience is able to recover from problems quickly. We all have problems, but people who have...
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