Personalities

Perspective - Summer 2011

Product design, exhibit design, branding and signage—these are some of the crossover specialties that interior designers commonly participate in that enrich our practices and open up new opportunities. But how far can we push the disciplinary boundaries? As a problem-solving process, design confounds any narrow notion of the practice as resulting exclusively in a physical end product. In fact, this view opens the field to infinite applications. Perspective looks at five Designers (with a capital D) of this cast and their design journeys. They come from a variety of professions, but they all embrace this broader concept of design and tap into the same skill set that’s at the foundation of what we do as interior designers. They use the design process mindset to expand their practices to address issues they are passionate about. In fact, their interface with another discipline is so intense, we’re calling them Hybrid Professionals.

Perspective - Summer 2010

We get up close and personal with five of Interior Design's most prolific female figures, including Anita Barnett, Jane Rohde, Nila Leiserowitz, Barbara Barry and Robin Kehr Avia.

Perspective - Fall 2005

FALL 2005 - Five young designers make their marks with quiet but dogged ambition.

Perspective - Summer 2005

SUMMER 2005 - Five who changed the face of interior design.

Perspective - Fall 2004

A profile of IIDA's "Ten to Watch" introduces 10 young professionals who have what it takes to propel the design world in new directions.

Perspective - Summer 2004

Daniel Libeskind, IIDA’s keynote speaker at NeoCon, incorporates the past, present and future into his design to achieve an enduring testament to his great love: architecture.