Hello army!
Welcome to the Interior Design Army Hub!
This hub serves as a platform for student designers, interior design professionals, and interior design lovers to come together and connect with each other through our shared love for BTS and interior design.
Our goals for this hub:
be a positive safe space for student and interior design professionals and enthusiasts
provide resources for student and interior design professionals
educate and inform others about the interior design industry
create posts regarding BTS MV sets, performance sets, and design details for discussion
highlight info about set details, production details, set designers, furniture, etc... as it pertains to BTS and the content they create
host online design charrettes, challenges, and various creative projects
Our admins are based in Asia and the US so we're more knowledgeable on codes from some of those regions.
We are all working in the field and have collective experience ranging from commercial interiors, retail, institutional, product design, hospitality, bar, restaurant, furniture design, architecture, landscaping, and residential.
We have varying skills in these programs so if you ever have any questions, feel free to ask us and we will try to help as best as we can:
AutoCAD
Revit
Sketchup + Vray
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Indesign
policy & terms
Our purpose is to provide a platform for student designers, design professionals and interior design lovers across the globe to come together and connect through our shared love for BTS and design. We will be providing interior design resources, BTS-related design analysis contents, as well as hosting creative design challenges.
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DESIGN VS DECORATE
"Many people use the terms "interior design" and "interior decorating" interchangeably, but these professions differ in critical ways.
Interior design is the art and science of understanding people's behavior to create functional spaces within a building. Decoration is the furnishing or adorning of a space with fashionable or beautiful things. In short, interior designers may decorate, but decorators do not design.
Interior designers apply creative and technical solutions within a structure that are functional, attractive and beneficial to the occupants' quality of life and culture. Designs respond to and coordinate with the building shell and acknowledge the physical location and social context of the project. Designs must adhere to code and regulatory requirements and encourage the principles of environmental sustainability.
The interior design process follows a systematic and coordinated methodology -- including research, analysis and integration of knowledge into the creative process — to satisfy the client’s needs and resources.
U.S. states and Canadian provinces have passed laws requiring interior designers to be licensed or registered and to document their formal education and training. Many states and provinces also specifically require all practicing interior designers to earn the NCIDQ Certification to demonstrate their experience and qualifications.
By contrast, interior decorators require no formal training or licensure. "
From the National Council For Interior Design Qualification
This, of course, is generally talking about Northern America. There's been a push to call interior designers, "interior architects" in the US just so that the profession is more defined from a decorator. However, it hasn’t been established officially, as one cannot call themselves an architect unless they are a licensed architect.
There are ways to accredit an interior designer in the US. Most of us go through an extensive education program. Majority of commercial design career opportunities require a degree from an accredited interior design program. Additionally, we can further support our education and experience through becoming a certified, registered, or licensed interior designer which is granted by the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ). Some states or projects even require designers to have this title for legal requirements.
The breakdown of that is as follows:
CERTIFICATION - NCIDQ is a certification only.REGISTRATION - “Registered Interior Designer” title is only provided to ones who met the required education, experience, and examination criterias to the states. (which is shown in the map image below of which states have laws for RIDs. only 5 state/provinces/territories in North America require registration). The state legislature needs to pass a law to create the title ‘Registered Interior Designer”. The benefit to this law is that Interior Designers are legally (and equally) recognized as a profession to the architects, being able to stamp their own drawings for permitting. Some states do use ‘registration’ interchangeably with ‘certification’LICENSE - not applicable in the US. There is no ‘licensure’ for the Interior Designer profession.
Here's a map showing which states in Northern America mandates registration:
The definitions of an interior designer and decorator may be similar to the US in other countries or the definitions of the two may merge more in other countries. For example, in Europe, there's a difference between interior architects and interior designers. The profession of an interior architect is comparable to architects or structural engineers while interior designers is comparable to carpenters where it's considered a trade.
In India, there isn’t a specific rule which states that you require a license to practice interior design but they can register and become members of certain organizations. A person can be an interior designer as a profession without having any formal education on it. They end up remaining limited to small scale projects such as residential units or retail stores. They are not legally liable for any of the work done unless the interior design business is legally registered to local authorities as a service provider. In short, an interior designer is interchangeably referred to as an interior decorator. Recently, there's been a term that's being used called "Interior Stylists" and it describes the actual job which is styling an interior and helps differentiate a designer from a stylist.
Being aware of the interior designers vs interior decorator is only possible if your country is bringing awareness to the difference. Not all countries are the same and we all speak different languages. We just want to educate the public as best as we can on this matter because not all countries have the same definitions. We'll try to provide more information on other countries as we continue to educate ourselves on this.
To sum up, “interior designers” and “interior decorators” may either be the same or different in each country. However, it is important that people can distinguish the two apart. We, for one, are tired of people asking us to decorate their room.
Here's an additional infographic:
RESOURCES
The resources listed above is not limited to the category it is listed under. For example, there are resources in regulations + licensing that students can use like code information. This just helps us organize our list, so feel free to click through!
If you have resources that you would like to share with everyone, send us a note and we can add it to the list if it's applicable!
We will always let you know once there is an update on the resources shown.