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Request for Proposal: Help Redesign the 2019 IDS Floor Plan
IDS would like to engage an interior designer or architect to redesign the 2019 event’s floor plan. The goal is to create a dynamic floor plan that encourages more interaction with exhibitors, dwell time at the event and an enhanced experience for attendees. Face to...
Advocacy associations help members succeed
If you are a creative professional struggling with promoting yourself and your work, you are not alone. Whether you’re a Registered graphic designer or Registered interior designer, there’s one main commonality—creativity. It can be quite the struggle being a creative...
Impact Summit Review
The 2017 Impact Summit, jointly hosted by Interior Designers of Canada (IDC) and the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), was Canada’s first from a series of three thought leader conferences, bringing together senior practitioners and emerging influencers...
Interior Designers of Canada & American Society of Interior Designers to Launch New Joint Magazine
Interior Designers of Canada (IDC) and the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) announced a new joint initiative that will bring their individual membership magazines—D and ICON—together into one new publication with broadened perspective and reach. As the...
Six Things Every Interior Designer Should Know Before Starting Their Career
Starting out in a new career can be a daunting but invigorating feeling. Most of us understand that often the best way to learn is from our own experiences, but gaining that knowledge from the insight of others can help get us on the right track and career path much...
Design Impacts Lives
This Saturday, May 27th, designers around the globe will celebrate World Interiors Day (WID). The annual event, observed every last Saturday in May, engages professional associations, design lovers and the public to find ways of looking at their built environments...
ARIDNB is designing a bright future for their members
The Interior Designers of Canada are very pleased to announce that the Association of Registered Interior Designers of New Brunswick (ARIDNB) have passed an act that defines the practice of interior design in New Brunswick. “After many years of hard work from...
Why you should hire a qualified interior designer
Would you hire a lawyer that didn’t graduate law school and pass the bar? Or get a check-up from a doctor who hasn’t been to medical school and failed their MCATs but just has “talent”? What about getting a root canal done by a dentist who isn’t certified by the NDEB?...
Matthew Searle posthumously honoured at IDC/IIDA Leaders Breakfast Toronto
Interior Designers of Canada (IDC) and the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) posthumously honoured interior design advocate and enthusiast, Matthew Searle, with the prestigious 2016 Leadership Award of Excellence at the tenth annual IDC/IIDA Leaders...