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Why be a Registered Interior Designer or Registered Residential Interior Designer?
• You benefit because legal recognition for interior design promotes open, fair and competitive access to the design marketplace, and you are helping to establish your chosen profession. Consumers benefit from being able to identify interior designers who are qualified by education, experience and examination.
Increase your Visibility
• Distinguish yourself from other designers by proudly displaying your credentials whenever you promote yourself.
Increase your Branding
• Adding ěInterior Designerî next to your name each time you sign it will reinforce to your clients that they are working with a professional interior designer. Your clients can take pride in retaining a registered professional for their special project.
Promote your Profession
• How many times have we heard designers say, ěMy clients donít understand what I doî? Legal recognition of our profession will create opportunities to educate the public and other members of the design team about all the responsibilities and services a Registered Interior Designer and Registered Residential Interior Designer are capable of providing.
Increase your Marketability
• Whether to a client or an employer, you gain additional respect and raise the bar for the interior design profession when you are a Registered Interior Designer or Registered Residential Interior Designer.
Take Pride in your Profession
• Legal recognition of interior designers through registration benefits and protects the publicís life, heath, safety and welfare. It defines a scope of practice and provides standards that encourage ethical design practices.
Take a Stand
• Join your fellow interior design professionals today in standing up for your chosen profession and being counted by taking steps to become a Registered Interior Designer or Registered Residential Interior Designer.
Act Now
• Contact the State of Illinois to become a Registered Interior Designer or Registered Residential Interior Designer.
What is IIDC?
The interior design professional associations identified legislative initiatives as a stand-alone, on-going professional focus that is needed to prevent other licensed/regulated professionals from defining our areas of responsibility for us.
The Illinois Interior Design Coalition is a not-for-profit legislative Political Action committee, supported by IIDA, ASID, IDEC and ISP, individual designers and interior design firms. It correlates to the AIA's political efforts through their committees, lobbyists and monthly legislative publication.
What is its purpose?
• Establish/maintain recognition by Government and Regulatory bodies of the impact of interior designers on the public welfare.
• To consolidate efforts and have a single voice to support legislation defining the profession of interior design and its impact on the public health and welfare.
• Without licensure as provided by a practice act, legislation by other regulatory entities may exclude interior designers.
What is the difference between Title and Practice Legislation?
• Both efforts have incrementally increased recognition with legislators and other licensed professionals.
• 1991 ń Illinois Interior Design Profession Title Act passed, registering designers qualified by educational, testing and experience to use the title ěInterior Designerî. The current law does not prevent anyone from holding himself or herself out to perform interior design services, whether qualified or not.
• It does not regulate the practice of design, or provide penalties for incompetence, malpractice, or unethical practices.
• A Practice Act with licensing provisions would identify professional accountability and legal responsibilities, such as permit sealing for non-load-bearing interior construction documents.
Does IIDC see any Business Trends by firms offering design services?
• Other entities are expanding their scope into services that have traditionally been the specialized expertise of interior design firms. Unless they retain design professionals, this cannot include implementation. But interior design professionals are currently not regulated to implement projects.
• Many corporate entities, specifically RE developers and advisors, circumvent the standard professional processes and engage in providing services without the involvement or supervision of any trained, let alone licensed professionals.
Why should the State legislators be interested?
• Interior Designers are a significant constituency in Illinois (and the US)
• Number of registered interior designers in Illinois: 1,464
• On an annual basis, independent interior design firms are responsible for generating over $15 Billion of the Gross National Product* in the specifying and implementation of design products. Independent interior designers in the State of Illinois account for a $16.5 million dollar industry in this state alone.
• Commercial interior designers in Illinois provide specialized services encompassing the research, planning and implementation of interior environments that improve the quality of life and protect the public's health, safety and welfare.
• Interior design, particularly in the commercial and institutional arena, has become a profession of complex integration of sophisticated systems and response to specialized needs for medical/health care and senior citizen housing.
• Commercial interior designers, as a unique part of the design and building team, impact the health and well-being of building occupants through specification of materials and products. Space planning requires the interpretation of complex building codes for safe ingress and egress, handicap accessibility, and indoor air quality.
Benefits of Title and Practice Legislation
• Assure that Interior Design that affects Public Health & Welfare is regulated through State established criteria for education, experience and examination
• Define our Profession
• Legal Recognition as ěProfessional Design Firmî
• Establish legislative vehicle to define our services and have leverage
• Inclusion in Legislation by other regulatory entities
• Acknowledged on an equal level with other professional members of multi-disciplinary teams
• Public Awareness by Code officials, buyers of our services, Associated disciplines
• Raise the Bar
• Increase Quality of Education & Examination
• Increase Quality of Client Service
• Increase Profitability/ reduce risk
• Raise the Bar
• Increase Marketability
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