Interior design handbook of professional practice

by Cindy Coleman

Interior design handbook of professional practice: The mass media proclaimed the above as the new millennium began.

Academics and professionals have been holding conferences about it for a while now.

Designers themselves have insisted on it all along.

But what, exactly, does that statement mean?

Interior design handbook of professional practice: A proliferation of hip hotels and award-winning potato peelers do not an era make.

Because those of us who are part of the design profession are optimists, always on the lookout for how we can make our environment better, we’re eager to claim that the twenty-first century is, at last, the era of design,

the time when design—and designers—have come into their own and taken power as a cultural force.

But do we agree about what design is?

To be sure, each designer has a unique vision and works in a unique way.

Yet, we’re all part of one profession, and being a professional of any kind acknowledges that there is a common ground shared by its practitioners.

Do designers know the coordinates and parameters of their profession?

Do they realize what they must learn if they are to be successful designers in the twenty-first century?

More important still, as professionals, do designers know what it means to do design?