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- 5. samples/artifacts: Photographs, floor-plan drawings, free-hand sketches, or conceptual models of work that you have done. Will be used in a portfolio to showcase your work to future clients.
- 6. design process: A method that interior designers use for organizing their work, guiding their actions, and finalizing their decisions when working with team members and clients. Although the phases of the process are linear, it is not unusual for a designer to revisit them several times as a client changes his or her mind or a design is further refined.
- 7. Pleasing in appearance without personal bias.
- 8. designer: A multi-faceted professional who uses creative and technical solutions applied within a structure to achieve a built interior environment.
- 9. copy portfolio: A digital copy of a collection of work samples of a person’s best work, often used when applying for a job to show a person’s abilities and accomplishments.
- 13. shadowing: Spending time with a person at work and learning by watching as he or she performs the functions of the job.
- 14. Takes place before the interior design process begins. Designer interviews the client and asks questions to understand the client’s needs. If the designer’s skills match and the client agrees a contract is signed so the interior design process can begin.
- 15. A method of learning that combines classroom instruction with meaningful community service.
- 16. program: A document that outlines the client project-functions, specific need requirements in each space, issues, and current status. Becomes a checklist-type document that helps the designer understand the client’s situation and needs, and ensures inclusion of every requirement in the final design solution.
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- 1. portfolio: A paper copy of a collection of work samples of a person’s best work, often used when applying for a job to show a person’s abilities and accomplishments.
- 2. educational work experience for credit that allows the student to investigate different areas of the interior design field, learn the culture of various firms, and understand how academic preparation corresponds to the practice of design.
- 3. interior design: Involves the planning and design of private dwellings to reflect the client’s tastes, preferences, and functional needs.
- 4. of ethics: Guiding principles of conduct and character that are established by and within professional organizations. A combination of best practices in business with moral principles to guide the interior design professional in simple, personal, or complex business relationships.
- 10. design: The creation of interior environments that support the function, aesthetics, and cultures of those who inhabit, live, and thrive in interior spaces.
- 11. A brief summary of a person’s education, skills, work experience, activities, and interests.
- 12. A person who works for another to learn a trade.
- 16. interior design: Involves the planning and design of primarily public spaces. Includes places where you eat, work, play, recover health, and heal from medical conditions, exercise, meditate, or enjoy life.