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PLAN NOW TO ENTER INTERIOR DESIGNVIDEO COMPETITIONYou are invited to take part in avideo event that celebrates yourpreparation as an interior designprofessional and informs othersabout the value of your skills.Thousands of students, faculty andpracticing interior designers acrossNorth America and other countriesare pursuing or have completededucation and examinationrequirements that fully preparethem to practice and to protect thepublic’s health, safety and welfareand quality of life. However, thepublic, design professionals andprospective interior design studentsdo not always understand this.This is your opportunity to createand share a short video with thepublic from your point of viewthat celebrates and explains theimportance of established interiordesign education and examinationstandards you are participatingin—and that well prepare you toassist the public as an interior designprofessional. Participation by manywill ensure dozens, or possiblyhundreds of searchable videos onYouTube available to the public thatpromote and explain the interiordesign preparation path.For more information please go towww.idec.org/videocompetitionYou can also view last year’s winningvideos online: www.youtube.com/user/<strong>IDEC</strong>org?blend=2&ob=5#p/c/D6324DA31AE72145DESIGN STUDENTS TIE FOR FIRST PLACEIN FURNITURE DESIGN COMPETITIONAnne Arundel Community CollegeThe winning entries of AnneArundel Community College(AACC) students Susan Wasilewski,Nadia D. Vemuri Cataldi andBrandon P. King were showcasedJuly 4 at the “Take Pride inAmerica Celebration and AwardsCeremony” at the U.S. Capitol.AACC also was invited to displayfurniture design entries fromanother five AACC interior designstudents as part of the event, whichfocused primarily on the furnituremanufacturers receiving awardsfrom MADE: in America based inWashington, D.C., the not-for-profiteducational organization and sponsorFor more information visit:www.naylornetwork.com/sid-nwl/articles/?aid=150698&issueID=23745www.articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-09-09/news/bs-md-araacc-winning-chair-20110908_1_design-contest-design-entries-furnituredesign-competitionASID STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPSChelsea Lawrence,Student MemberASID won the LegacyScholarship forUndergraduates. This isawarded to a creativelyoutstanding student asdemonstrated throughtheir portfolio.Kendra Locklear won theLegacy Scholarship forGraduate Students. Thisaward provides financialassistance to individualson the basis of academic/creative accomplishmentand their professionalgoals.20
Image: Laura Kimmel’s design of agarment based on systems of branchingpatterns within her body.STUDENT PERSPECTIVE:LAURA KIMMELLaura Kimmel, second-year design student, University of NorthCarolina GreensboroDo digital technologies facilitate or hinder the creativity ofstudents/professionals?As a student in an interior architecture program, my experience withtechnology seems rather primitive when I observe the current workof influential designers. The challenge of becoming diverse and aptin a variety of digital technologies is intimidating but intriguing at atime when digital software is increasingly available and required bymany design schools and practices across the country.Learning the capabilities of these programs has become mymotivation to explore them. My experience with digital technologyhas greatly advanced this semester. I have been introduced to digitalfabrication (laser cutting and CNC milling), Rhino as a way ofproducing digital models, and expressing designs visually in AdobeIllustrator and Photoshop. The availability of this technology hasnot only expanded my physical capabilities of production, quantity,and accuracy, but has visually aided how I convey ideas and processesto my peers, ultimately creating a digital dialogue.In my experience, technology is crucial for communicating ideasin collaborative projects. Yet on an individual level, I find digitalfabrication best supports my creativity when it came to theproduction stage. I was able to design a garment, for example, basedon systems of branching patterns within my body. The design, aninterpretation of a biological system, required hundreds of units thatvaried in height. This quantity of material could only be constructedin the given timeframe with the use of laser cut units and digitalmodeling. While this concept derived from research and handrenders/sketch models, it wasn’t until I created several versions inRhino for the laser cutter that I was able to predict and determinehow the garment would function as an interconnected whole.Although I’ve only scraped the surface of the digital realm, I cansee the impact it’s made in my work over the past two months.Digital technologies have facilitated my creative endeavors. Thetechnological complexity and physical quality of my designs haveonly been strengthened by these technologies, a realization whichdrives me to further explore digital tendencies.21
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