Design Handbook of Professional Practicedescribes the changes currently
occurring in the design profession and industry. It suggests new, unique ways
of thinking and working. Ideally, this book will become a catalyst for all
designers who seek excellence in interior design practice. It will be an essential
tool for those who have made a commitment to sustained excellence and con-
tinually move the profession forward.
Interior Designmagazine is proud to bring together the best writers and
thinkers in the field today whose mission, under editor-in-chief Cindy Cole-
man, was to define design for the new millennium in terms that will help pro-
fessionals, academics, and students of interior design realize their
commitment to professional excellence. TheHandbookis designed, itself, to
be used flexibly and repeatedly by professionals in search of new definitions,
new strategies, and new benchmarks by which to measure success.
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