The website looks great and is quite ambitious! I’m impressed, and it’s cool to see females take a lead on community oriented projects like this. -Paulina Wilkowska, University of Illinois at Chicago graduate student
Talk is cheap, but should this be considered bad or good? Guess it depends on what you mean by cheap.
(-): The familiar phrase “put your money where your mouth is” sums it up nicely. Sound off about something all you want, but until you commit to take some sort of action, what does it really matter?
(+): Information is a type of currency and knowledge is power, so sharing your cultivated insight costs you nothing (but a little time), yet benefits others immensely.
So what am I getting at here? Take advantage of the fact that talk is cheap, but put your money where your mouth is by giving away your pearls of wisdom (and you know you must have some) freely as a gift. Here are but a few ways to spread the wealth:
Participate in local student-focused events and/or speak at your local design school. Professionals, the newbies envy your experience. Students, the veterans envy your enthusiasm.
Educate the public – which consists of family, friends, or new acquaintances you might meet casually during a holiday party – about what designers do. Their enlightenment will ultimately be your windfall.
Communicate amongst yourselves, whether it be within your office, your local design community or an emerging online forum such as CLUB CHiNTZ (we just had to get that plug in there). Invest for immediate results and future benefit.
Contrary to instinct, disseminating information doesn’t weaken you as an individual; rather, it strengthens the group, i.e. the profession and the industry, as a whole. A bit of advice: Don’t even attempt to use this notion as a way to get out of giving gifts this almost-upon-us holiday season. Do so, and your family, friends, and co-workers will expose you for the cheapskate that you are. Mmm hmm.
To bridge the gap between the student / educational community and the professional / manufacturer community of the interior design world, and not to die of boredom while we do it.
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(-): The familiar phrase “put your money where your mouth is” sums it up nicely. Sound off about something all you want, but until you commit to take some sort of action, what does it really matter?
