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What you'll find...
HiP & COOL: Learn, Baby, Learn · Ready For My Close-Up
INSiDE SCOOP: Design Speak · Say What? · What In The World?
GOiNG PUBLIC: Go Ahead... Ask Me · Rant & Rave · Light Reading |
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Our mission.
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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In Memoriam: Keri Scholtz Hall
We want to take a moment to remember someone who not only contributed a great deal to the interior design industry, but who also positively influenced thousands of members of it. On August 2nd, just six weeks short of her 40th birthday, Keri Scholtz Hall passed away after having battled cancer. For many years Keri called on designers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and beyond, never failing to light up an office with her beautiful smile and infectious enthusiasm. Keri, you will be missed by many and forgotten by few.
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Dust off your boots, polish your spurs and rope yourself a herd of new content on plinthandchintz.com...
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contributed by Darlene M. Molnar, LEED AP (designer / grad student / material girl / single white female)
Volunteering Design
You donate to your alumni fund, participate in at least one event a year that has "athon" in the name, and occasionally consider helping old ladies cross the street. Yes, you are practically a saint. With nearly your whole paycheck spent at the gas pump the only thing you're going to do for free is an über posh internship. These were my thoughts exactly. As a full time student, employee, and socializer, my time is mine. So when asked to spend some of my oh-so-precious hours reviewing design projects for free, I had to pause. Not a dollar? No stock option? Nothing for my 401K? Are these people crazy? In an attempt to get in good with the man upstairs, though, I agreed to and fell in love with the best profit sharing available: volunteering design...
Go here to find out how to give a little back.
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Emily Siwek
Get ready to slap yourself upside the head V-8 style and say "Now why didn't I think of that?" Emily Siwek has beaten us all to the punch with a brilliant solution to a problem that every designer faces every day. This graduate from both the University of Michigan (Bachelor of Arts) and Eastern Michigan University (Master's in Interior Design) has founded Sample Scrap, a company that takes discontinued and surplus samples from both A&D firm libraries and manufacturer warehouses to a) re-package them in sample kits for students and educators, b) make them available to artists and crafters, and c) re-purpose them into new creations of her own. (Do we hear some of those head slaps out there?) We're delighted to tell you how Emily, self-proclaimed Head Scrapper, is actually doing something about an issue that has weighed many a designer down with either sagging library shelves, eco-friendly guilt, or both....
Go here to find out how to get scrappy.
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August 2008 additions to SAY WHAT?: abrogate, chagrin, and telepresence (We'll even show you how to use each word in a sentence related to the design industry.)
Just remember: Expand your vocabulary, and you expand your opportunities. Visit SAY WHAT?
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Question for August 2008: I received my ASID renewal invoice and, considering that I went to maybe two events last year, I'm wondering why I'm still a member. It seems that the only thing that keeps me shelling out half a paycheck per year to this organization is the thought of what a huge pain it was to become a member. I'm really doing graphics [for an interior design firm] now. I get all of the e-mails but nothing seems to catch my interest. I feel that P&C speaks more to my peer group, my graphic design eye, and is more representative of my voice as a designer (and it's free!). I'd like your honest opinion - not as an ASID leader, but as a designer and friend. Is there really a reason for ME to renew? (submitted by B.B.) As answered by Laura McDonald Stewart, ASID | IIDA - Founder, PLiNTH & CHiNTZ
Go here to read the A to this Q.
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We love your comments and suggestions so keep 'em coming. Speak your mind by submitting your RANTS & RAVES to contact@plinthandchintz.com.
I love the article you wrote about the Universal Design Living Laboratory! You really captured the spirit and excitement of the project. I bet your readers will be sucked into this article from the first sentence and read it all the way until the last period. You are a fantastic writer. Thank you!
- Rosemarie Rossetti, Ph.D., Universal Design Living Laboratory
Go here for more whoops and hollers.
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by Laura McDonald Stewart, ASID / IIDA [Interior Designer / Founder PLiNTH & CHiNTZ]
Design Ideas
Those of us in the design industry are idea-addicts, and though our bodies might go on holiday, our minds rarely take the siesta on the beach alongside us. Whether we oversee a creative phase like design development or contribute to the process with left-brained specification writing, innate artistic expression lies within, and it's usually looking for an escape hatch. So if you have accumulated a backlog of doodles and design ideas because your mind has been experiencing snow flurries of activity while your body has been relaxing in the summer heat, maybe you can put them to good use through the following outlets, possibly turning your designs into cash...
Go here to find an audience for your talents.
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When you enter Amazon through our humble little website, a portion of your purchase - no matter what you buy - helps to keep PLiNTH & CHiNTZ up-n-running. The best part: It doesn't cost you anything extra and it helps us not have to charge you for your access to PLiNTH & CHiNTZ. THANK YOU VERY MUCH for your support! 
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