The divide (or maybe judgement?) seems to be aimed at the ‘every day’ designer - whilst folk casually forget that the likes of Kelly Hoppen, Nina Campbell, Jeremiah Brent and Shea McGee (to name a few) didn’t get degrees in Interior Design.
My observation is that the industry is still incredibly elitist.
Practising Interior Design without any skills or expertise does the Industry no favours (and honestly there is some poor work about) but how you learn those skills does not have to be via formal education.
You can learn a heap: on a building site, self-directed, one-off courses, reading books, shadowing another designer, getting a mentor, joining a community etc etc
Great article - we need more designers from every background to shake the industry up.
If design is for everyone, then everyone can design. 🙏🏻
Oh - SO MANY thoughts on this! 🙄
The divide (or maybe judgement?) seems to be aimed at the ‘every day’ designer - whilst folk casually forget that the likes of Kelly Hoppen, Nina Campbell, Jeremiah Brent and Shea McGee (to name a few) didn’t get degrees in Interior Design.
My observation is that the industry is still incredibly elitist.
Practising Interior Design without any skills or expertise does the Industry no favours (and honestly there is some poor work about) but how you learn those skills does not have to be via formal education.
You can learn a heap: on a building site, self-directed, one-off courses, reading books, shadowing another designer, getting a mentor, joining a community etc etc
Great article - we need more designers from every background to shake the industry up.
If design is for everyone, then everyone can design. 🙏🏻
An excellent point and I couldn’t agree more! Let’s not stifle creativity and art more than the governments already are.