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Interior Vocab 1.01
Term | Definition |
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Aesthetics | Pleasing in appearance without personal bias. |
Interior Design | The creation of interior environments that support the function, aesthetics, and cultures of those who inhabit, live, and thrive in interior spaces. |
Interior Designer | A multi-faceted professional who uses creative and technical solutions applied within a structure to achieve a built interior environment. |
Residential Interior Design | Involves the planning and design of private dwellings to reflect the client’s tastes, preferences, and functional needs. |
Commercial 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. |
Resume | A brief summary of a person’s education, skills, work experience, activities, and interests. |
Internship | An 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. |
Job Shadowing | Spending time with a person at work and learning by watching as he or she performs the functions of the job. |
Service Learning | A method of learning that combines classroom instruction with meaningful community service. |
Apprentice | A person who works for another to learn trade. |
Work 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. |
Digital 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. |
Traditional 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. |
Code of Ethics | Guiding principles of conduct and character that are established within professional organizations. A combination of best practices in business with moral principles to guide the interior design professional, personal or complex business relationships. |
Interior Design Process | A method that interior designers use for organizing their work, or guiding their actions, their decisions when working with team members and clients. It is not unusual for a designer to revisit them several times as a client changes his or her mind. |
Pre-Design | Takes place before the interior design process begins. Designer interviews the client and asks questions to understand client’s needs. If the designer’s skills match and the client agrees a contract is signed so the interior design process can begin. |
Programming | The designer clearly identifies the client’s design problem, Future needs. Involves fact-finding, on-site analysis of the project and creation of client program. By the end the designer should understand the needs of the project in detail and verify. P1 |
Client 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 clarification. |
Schematic Design | Phase 2 of the interior design process. A brainstorming phase. The designer explores and generates multiple ideas on the client program. The Designer uses schematics, Includes concept development, preliminary space planning, drawings, furniture. |
Design Development | Phase 3 of the interior design process. The refinement of designs and decisions the designer and client made. Phase of critical analysis, problem solving, and creativity. Phase includes floor plan revisions. |
Contract Documents | Phase 4. Preparing formal documents for the construction and installation of design. These documents are the legally binding document. Continue with refinement of budget, development of working drawings, specification book, bidding with contractor. |
Contract Administration | Phase 5 of the interior design process. The design comes to life. Designer schedules and monitors construction work and costs. |
Move-In & Post Occupancy | Phase 6 of the interior design process. Designers sets a move-in date and schedule furniture and equipment delivery. Designer needs to assess the client’s satisfaction. |