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Ideation“the process of forming and relating ideas.

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WHO IS AN INTERIOR DESIGNER?

title: Graphic Designer firm: Davis Architects, AL.

Jonthan Hass, Alumni 2010title: Designer firm: Tracery Interiors, AL.

Doug Davis, Alumni 2003

title: Interior Designer firm: Lori Graham Design, DC.

Molly Hammond, Alumni 2006title: Interior Architect firm: Kirksey Architecture, Texas

Kate Sharp, Alumni 2011

The professional interior designer is qualified by education, experience, and examination to enhance the function and quality of interior spaces.

This definition is endorsed by NCIDQ, CIDA, major interior design associations of North America, and unaffiliated professional interior designers.

The Professional Interior Designer analyzes the client’s needs, goals, and life and safety requirements; integrates findings with knowledge of in-

terior design; formulates preliminary design concepts that are appropriate, functional, and aesthetic; develops and presents final design recommenda-tions though appropriate presentation media; prepares working drawings and specifications for non-load-bearing interior construction, materials, finishes, space planning, furnishings, fixtures, and equipment; collaborates with li-censed practitioners who offer professional services in the technical areas of mechanical, electrical, and load-bearing design as required for regulatory ap-proval; prepares and administers bids and contract documents as the client’s agent; and reviews and evaluates design solutions during implementation and upon completion.”

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The Department of Interior Architecture is able to offer scholarships based upon portfolio review to students who choose majors in our department.

The amount of award varies according to the funds available to the Depart-ment, and quality of application. Application must be completed and portfolio submitted by February 1 for entering freshmen. For those students who did not submit portfolios as entering freshman, scholarship opportunity is avail-able upon the completion of the student’s sophomore portfolio review.

The Department awards medals or certificates of merit to students with GPAs of 3.5 or above. An award is also made to the Outstanding Senior in

each major.

intimately connected with man’s daily life from the cradle to the grave.”Steen Eiler Rasmussen

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

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“beauty appeals to the eye and through the eye to the mind stirring in us emotions or feelings of pleasure a higher kind of pleasure than that which is

derived solely from the gratification of the senses the kind which is

distinguished as aesthetic.”

Charles H Caffin

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ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

The faculty strives to graduate professionals who use their trained aesthetic sense, technical ability, personal discernment, and communication skills to

design spaces that function according to the users’ needs and improve the qual-ity of the users’ lives. The professors work not only to communicate a passion for good design, but also to instill that passion in students.

DEGREE AWARDED

A Bachelor of Fine Art Degree in Interior Design with a minor in Art.

Core requirements include 46 core/general education credits; 22 credits for an Art minor, and 66 IARC credits for a total of 134 credits required for gradu-ation.

AccreditationThe Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) accredits Samford University’s interior design program.

The interior design major and the pre-architecture students share a common curriculum for the first two years of study. These foundation courses intro-

duce applicable theory and skills, preparing the students for a more specific design direction: interior design, interior architecture, or architecture.

Those students completing their BFA in Interior Design at Samford Univer-sity will engage in a curriculum sequence whose content adheres to CIDA

(Council for Interior Design Accreditation) standards. The program prepares design students to combine aesthetic values with practical needs and realities. Program graduates weigh design decisions with social, cultural, and ecological context in mind. Based on a foundation in fine art, the students utilize a holistic approach that integrates interior design with architecture stresses the three-dimensional use of space, considers the user’s awareness and experience of space, and incorporates the necessary understanding of codes and life-safety issues.

A GREAT designer studies everything.”

“A good designer studies the work of other designers.

Orlando Diaz-Azcuy

http://arts.samford.edu/interiorarchitecture/ | contact 205.726.2843Samford Universi ty is an Equal Opportuni ty Inst i tut ion that compl ies wi th appl icable law prohibi t ing discr iminat ion in i ts educat ional and employment pol ic ies and does not unlawful ly discr iminate on the basis of race, color, sex, age, disabi l i ty, veteran status, genet ic

informat ion, or nat ional or ethnic or ig in.

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