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.
Highlights from the 2018 Design Bloggers Conference
The 2018 Design Bloggers Conference brought design lovers and bloggers from all across the U.S. (and the globe really) to Los Angeles for a three-day event. From March 4-6, attendees gathered at the…
Home Sweet Apartment
While there are plenty who dream of white picket fences and rooms their families can grow into, a growing number of folks are perfectly happy forking over 30 percent of their income each month in…
LA Mart Design Center to Host Design Box Challenge
LA Mart Design Center (LAMDC) announced this week it will host the inaugural Design Box Challenge during LA Mart’s Designer Week, March 25-30.
The event will challenge six designers to transform an…
Last Look With Lisa Melone Cloughen
Lisa Melone Cloughen, Principal Designer at Melone Cloughen Interiors, believes traditional design exudes a sense of timelessness — without being a slave to the past. Here she unpacks her design of…
Gotcha Covered: What the Showtime Market Offers Designers
It’s only fitting that the newly rebranded International Textile Alliance (ITA), producer of the bi-annual Showtime Market in High Point, NC, has released a new logo and tagline: Connections Happen…
4 Tools For Creating Social Media Visuals
Whether you’re posting a promotion, announcing event details or wishing your customers a happy holiday, images are a great way to share messages across your social media channels. Visuals are much…
Fabric Trend Report
After spending time in High Point, NC, for the fall furniture market and the bi-annual Showtime fabric market in December, a handful of trends in textiles crystallized. Here, we’ve highlighted four…
Howard Elliott Launches Photo Contest
Howard Elliott this week announced the launch of its Show Us Your Howard Elliott contest, where contestants can submit photos featuring Howard Elliott product for the chance to win $500.…
Outlook Good for 2018, ASID's Latest Report Says
Each quarter, the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) releases its interior design billings index to track growth in the industry and look out for major changes and challenges. The society…
4 Online Project Management Tools That Actually Manage
Are these scenarios familiar: An annoyed customer calls for the second time to ask why an associate didn't follow up on her question. The second part of an order was never placed, and now the…