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1.01 Interior vocab
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,sketches, or conceptual models of work you've done that'll 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. |
C ode of Ethics | Guiding principles of conduct and character that are established by professional organizations. Its Best practices in business with moral principles to guide the interior design professional in simple, personal or complex business relationships. |
Interior Design Process: | : A method that interior designers use for organizing work, guiding actions, and finalizing decisions when working with a team & clients. These phases of the process are linear,but it not unusual for a designer to revisit them. Clients change their minds. |
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 | Phase 1 of the interior design process. Identifies the clients situations and needs. |
Client Program: | Document that outlines client project-functions, needs requirements, issues, & current status. Becomes a checklist-type document, helps the designer understand, client’s situation & needs, ensures inclusion of every requirement in final design solution. |
Schematic Design | Phase 2 of the interior design process. A brainstorming or “what-if” phase that is creative and innovative, Designer generate multiple illustration. |
Design Development | Phase 3 of the interior design process. The refinement of designs and decisions the designer and client made. Its a refinement to create a final plan. |
Contract Documents | Phase 4 of the interior design process. Involves preparing formal documents for the construction and installation of design. . |
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 schedules furniture and equipment delivery. Designer needs to assess the client’s satisfaction. |