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I.D. Trade Show featuring Three Centuries of Color from Benjamin Moore
The Future Designers of Marylhurst University will be hosting a mini-trade show and CEU event on Thursday, May 31st at 5:30p.m. in Flavia Salon. Several industry manufacturers are participating with Benjamin Moore’s Three Centuries of Color keynote presentation. BM 3 Centuries of Color
For planning purposes, the student group ask that you register for this event at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3554446445
This will be a great event for networking, education and fun! Please join us!
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Beginning in 2012, the 1st section of NCIDQ’s (National Council for Interior Design Qualification) written exam will be available to interior design graduates – prior to the required work experience. Previously, candidates needed to fulfill interior design coursework plus work experience to sit for all portions of the exam. 2012 IDMU graduates will be eligible for the spring 2013 exam.
Section 2 of the written exam, and the practicum, may be taken after the work experience is completed. Graduate-candidates will have a 5-year window to complete the work experience.
This announcement is hot-off-the-press and NCIDQ is in the process of working out the details and updating their website.
FYI – here are the 2011 pass rates: Section #1: 79%, Section #2: 69%, Practicum: 43%.
Pictured is Sir John Soane’s House/Museum. (Photo by Lewis K. Bush. ) John Soane was an architect and an avid collector. His house is crammed full of artifacts – just like IDMU students and graduates who are bursting with skills and knowledge.
Many Interior Design students have perfectionist tendencies. In practice this can be quite valuable as designers juggle countless morphing details. Mistakes can be costly and dangerous.
But perfection can seriously stifle the creative design process. Ideas are rejected before they ever make it to paper because students believe drawings need to be correct. But your head is not the place to reject ideas. Once on paper, ideas can transform, inform other ideas, synthesize, be tested, and be edited.
There is no such thing as a “bad” drawing. The only way to do a bad drawing is to not draw it. There are messy drawings – and students need to get comfortable making messy drawings. Students also need to develop the craft of drawings so that their intentions are clear and the only way to develop the craft is to draw.
Pictured is a drawing of Ecotrust from IDMU’s Analytical Freehand Drawing course. The drawing is all about seeing and imprinting spatial information. It was developed in layers beginning with an ink blind contour, then built up by adding form, light and shadow, and texture. It is a beautiful drawing because the student let go and didn’t allow judgement get in the way.
Previously known as HI:Europa, Study Abroad Marylhurst (SAM) will be traveling to Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin and Amsterdam in September 2012. This trip may be taken for credit or fun. You need not be a student to participate.
Stayed tuned for more information about this wonderful learning adventure.
For more information on this travel study trip contact Michele Kremers at 636-8141 ext 4423 or mkremers@marylhurst.edu
Updates and Reminders
- A timely announcement as we consider "Essential Places" for design students to visit in the Pacific Northwest... Michael Graves & Associates' "Portland Building" added to National Historic Register | Michael Graves & Associates | Archinect.
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