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Designing Your Business: Strategies For Interior Design Professionals

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Manufacturer: Fairchild Pubns

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Average Customer Ratings:

Bringing the expertise of a business and legal professional to the practice of interior
design, Designing Your Business serves as a strong reference for basic business and legal
concepts. It aims to make students savvy businesspeople as well as creative interior
designers by offering strategies for working effectively with colleagues, clients, and
resources. The text explores business organization, legal, and ethical issues arising
in the practice of interior design, and business finance and accounting practices common
to the profession. The hands-on approach and engaging interactive pedagogy
bring relevance to the topics of law and business and show interior design students
how their business decisions can facilitate their professional practices.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 729
EAN: 9781563673269
ISBN: 1563673266
Label: Fairchild Pubns
Manufacturer: Fairchild Pubns
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 552
Publication Date: 2005-04-30
Publisher: Fairchild Pubns
Studio: Fairchild Pubns


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
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• Dress Smart: A Guide To Effective Personal Packaging
• Professional Practice for Interior Designers
• Textiles for Residential & Commercial Interiors


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Outdated forms, author verbose and boring -
I am required to have this book for a business class for interior design. I have only had it for 3 weeks and I have to say it is not that good. I am sure a lot of teachers have a hard time finding an adequate book for interior design classes and am sure this is the best they could find (that's why it's getting the 3 stars.)
The chapters cover the specific lectures, questions about the lecture, diary of a novice interior designer on her 1st job where you have to help her fill out forms and a commercial example of interior design work with more forms to fill. The forms are in the book as well as on a CD that is part of the book. The CD forms are in Excel and very poorly formatted... so every time you type, you have to reformat everything. I would have expected them to be in Adobe with areas to fill in information. Also, the forms that need to be filled are redundant and it seams like you keep entering the same information over and over, just in different forms. I am surprised and embarrassed that living in the 21st century interior designers are taught to still fill paper forms, where almost all other professions have specialized computer systems where all the information would be entered (ONLY ONCE) and numerous reports could be obtained.
The lectures are very hard to read, specially is you are trying to answer the questions at the beginning of each chapter... the author is very verbose and boring. Again, I realize this is a business book but I don't necessary think it had to be boring or that expensive!

A Business Approach to Interior Design -
This is a text aimed at the student of interior design. It brings together the expertise of a business and legal professional to the practice of interior design. It aims to make students savvy business people as well as creative interior designers.

As such it includes business organization, legal and ethical issues arising in the practice of interior design, and business finance and accounting practices common to the profession.

The text features a strategic approach that guides readers in planning their careers with their personal goals and competencies in mind. The information in the book is tailored to the specific business needs of residential and contract designers. A CD included with the book features business forms and worksheets from the text for use in the books assignments as well as for later use in the students' own careers.

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