Creative Design
Transcript: Interior Designer Lexi Salcedo Job Description Job Description Makes spaces functional, safe, and creative. Decides the lighting, colors, materials and other decorations around the building. Creates asthetically pleasing spaces. Need to have a creative eye, pay attention to detail, good communicaton and being highly creative. Interior Designer Duties Duties determine space requirments selecting essential and decortative items choose the lighting and color determine optimal furniture placement determine cost of completion of an interior design project all while adhearing to relevent blueprint, building code and inspection requirment Education Education You can get either an assosiates or bachelor's degree your even able to go all the way to a doctorate degree You'll master business sides of the career which would help you be sucessful in this line of work Internships are available which can help build your portfolio Know if your state requires a license for interior design to be licensed you will need to pass the NCIDQ exam Salary / Wages Job Outlook Glassdoor has from anywhere of $27k to about $160k per year Can depend on the area you live and your clientel Outlook 7,800 openings for interior designers are projected each year interior design market was valued at 130,100 million USD can expect a potential growth rate of 8.5% between 2019-2024 Pictures Hours and daily schedules Job Insights typically work 40 hours a week can work in a comfortable office, small firms, freelance designers Consultants and self-employed designers usually work long hours in congested offices you can travel depending on where you want to work and if you get asked to come work with a certain person High demand/paying cities Seattle, Washington Denver, Colorado Milwaukee, Wisconsin Jacksonville, Florida San Francisco, California Salt Lake City, Utah Los Angeles, California San Diego, California Popular cities for interior designers Creativity in this field Creativity creativity is from understanding when the rules and knowing when to apply them they also use critical thinking throughout this field you could have challenging paces or clients who want specific things encourage pushing yourself into other perspectives and open up to new ideas