The Painful Perspective

It’s a painful fact I try to avoid as a student but also as a future designer that I might have to explain what I do for a career almost every day to clients or outside friends. That is the power of the public perspective always assuming that every career is similar another or that certain people should stay to a certain path. Telling people even if we were born from interior decorators, designers started to venture out and wanted to change the way an average space or form, started thinking as an interior architect. Another ways the population see designers is a female only career similar to nursing or lower level teachers. But in this day and age males are entering those career paths the same with females now entering fields that the public believe is meant for men.  For example during the 60's there was a famous male interior designer David Hicks and he brought unique design and style to the lifestyle.

I never thought it was so bad on how interior designers were seen until I was showed a video where a student would stop and ask random people what they thought an interior designer is and does? Out of , I am going to say , twenty people maybe two or three answered it correctly or even close to an appropriate answer. Most of them would say the purpose of a designer just arranges furniture and chooses color swatches for a client it actually killed me both heart and mind it made me sick to my stomach I wish designers had better advertisement instead of people randomly deciding to pick that as a career path. Since some perspectives are changing this century so is the areas where decorators or designers were hired, back then decorators were used in real-estate so they can stay with assisting clients on how to make their home more comfortable while designer were used in commercial estates for a more refine look to draw more customers meant for the space now decorators can be hired for commercial areas while designers can only focus on real-estate. So if that why of looking at decorators and designer changed there still hope for the other assumptions. All those types of perspective can be difficult to handle but it just means that I, as a student, and other designing student just have to be a more passionate so later on when we describe our career to others who don’t fully understanding why this chose in careers we just have to show them how we benefit them and the economy in the future. So don’t lose hope future designers we can still change the population’s perspective.

(This video is where random people were asked what an interior designer means to them)    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuaZbFduzG4