Designer Education
Product designers, interior designers and lighting designers are working in a changing industry. Competition from online services, DIY and home improvement tv shows, plus changing consumer lifestyles have continued to shift the way business is done. In this section, product designers, interior designers and lighting designers can read news, trend articles and more.
5 Fast Strategies to Increase Your Design Revenues
Whether you are an independent interior designer, or you head a small firm, you want to increase your design revenues. Often you make it much more complicated than it needs to be. Money loves…
Steelyard Adds New Tools and Features
Just in time for the October High Point Market, Steelyard has announced new time-saving features and tools. Of note, Steelyard has developed, refined and added a new Collaboration feature, a one-…
Barbour Spangle Design Expands Staff
Award-winning firm Barbour Spangle Design continues its trajectory of growth with the addition of three new designers added to their residential and showroom design teams. Co-founders and partners…
Martyn Lawrence Bullard to be Honored as 2020 Design Icon at Las Vegas Market
Martyn Lawrence Bullard, an award-winning interior designer recognized internationally for his broad range of styles and eclectic yet sophisticated and inviting interior designs and licensed…
Gina Hopkins Joins High Point’s Allen and James Designs
Allen and James Designs announced that Gina Hopkins has joined the High Point design firm as an interior designer. With seven years of experience working on residential projects nationwide, Hopkins…
A Look at Thom Filicia’s More Than Two Decades in Business
When Thom Filicia was in sixth grade, he was enrolled in an advanced art class. This setting is where he first started designing houses, and this served as the initial spark that brought design into…
Nurseries + Nests: Why Today’s Most Stylish Nurseries & Kids’ Spaces are Becoming Gender-Neutral
Nurseries are the sweetest spaces to design, and there’s lately been a radical departure from the typical inspiration that’s always been front and center. Whether you're outfitting a soft, neutral…
Interior Architecture Inspires Michael Caradine's Hospitality Designs
Michael Caradine is a founder and Principal of Adrian Caradine Contract Design Inc. with over 35 years of experience designing and managing hospitality projects. His talents are enriched by interests…
Kim Radovich Launches New Business of Design Workshop
Interior designer Kim Radovich, Principal of Kim Radovich Interiors and Kim E. Courtney Home and President of ASID NY Metro, announces Design Retreat, a special two-day workshop covering a range of…
A Madcap Journey: Behind the Scenes of John Loecke and Jason Oliver Nixon's Thriving Brand
What happens when two globe-trotting journalists decide to start a business of their own in licensed product design? Madcap Cottage, that’s what. With backgrounds in interior and graphic design (John…