How many interior designers realize that you do a lifetime is just a mediocre designer?

Now most designers are actually just draftsmen plus business, the concept has been blurred, how many designers are passionate about learning cad 3dmax ps, study lighting materials, the pursuit of real rendering effects, to understand the characteristics and applicability of various building materials. In the end. Become a set of templates. A variety of fast plug-ins, rendering is only the pursuit of cell phones to open clear on the good. I can only say that there is a need to have subsistence capital to become a real designer

Mindset to be correct, who's work is mediocre. Work is all about serving others and creating value. Others because you pay and wonderful, you are not ordinary. But do good things, do not ask the future.

There is an artist said: weight loss is no shortcut is not eat; whitening is no shortcut is not sunshine. There are a lot of changes to their own is no shortcut to go, to reach the ideal of the other side of the price to pay is huge, do not see everyone to accept the challenge.

Interior designer's way out of this problem to the essence, is a disheartening thing, according to the law of 8/2, 80% is the bottom of the mediocre. Design is the spirit of creative industries, only when the designer's ideas have the opportunity to realize the case may be able to realize the value of the labor paid, when the designer's drawings, creative ideas can not be realized all the efforts are wasted.

Don't think too much will live happier, after all, you look at actors, painters, writers, such careers can become famous is also a rare corner. Designers are essentially similar to these professions in that what you see is the scenery, and what's miserable is not known.

In retrospect, not only is the designer to do a lifetime is just a mediocre designer? Most of us live a lifetime of hard work in the end is not just a mediocre people? How many of us can really change our destiny and make it to the top of the heap?

Most designers are just a mediocre designer for at least three reasons:

First, the lack of practice opportunities.

The design industry is too much need to learn from the practice of experience and sublimation of the industry, if you can not receive a single, most of the cases stay in the paper on the stage of the death, never hold to be able to become a great designer that day. The designer's practice opportunities in addition to personal sales design program is also directly proportional to the strength of the individual's social resources.

In general, it is not the better the design of the designer's hands the more single, and not the higher the level of sales of the designer's hands the higher the quality of the single. There are many factors here, and the designers who don't get the most exercise in their best years will generally fall into mediocrity.

Second, the city or environment in a single.

The world but not mediocre people have not mediocre experience, if a designer always stay in a city, face the same kind of owners and the same kind of design, week after week, you want him to become the future is not mediocre that is impossible.

The design of the industry is very fast, maybe this year the design is still very popular, next year disappeared from the market. Designers to keep up with the times will have to travel around, read a lot of books, see a lot of knowledge. New materials, new technologies and new aesthetic understanding.

Able to year-round often out of the wind designers are almost all have excellent economic conditions and personal freedom, with marriage and children, which will brush down a large number of designers. Let them become mediocre because of life, the design is uninspired.

Third, the innate talent is not enough.

If a person in a certain field has the inherent talent, that he even if there are many less favorable conditions for growth still does not affect his fame, does not affect his speech amazing.

Gifted designers have a sense of color, sense of scale, sense of space will be better than the average person, just need to have the right opportunity to make better works than others, long-term output of excellent works, over time, will not become mediocre.

Unfortunately, talent is something that is rewarded by God, and not everyone has it.

In short, whether it's a designer's career or any other career, the majority of people will be mediocre for the rest of their lives. Only a very few who are talented or have good access to resources and seize the opportunity to work their way up the ladder are able to escape from mediocrity.

That said, there's nothing wrong with being a mediocrity for the rest of your life. After all, a life of fame and fortune is not something that everyone can handle.

Home designers and architects are in the minority.

Just like every industry practitioners, to excel in an industry, not only the strength, but also the opportunity;

Interior designers in China is a very common position, more in order to solve the owners of the aesthetic services;

Interior designers mediocrity a large number of people have realized at the beginning of the

Although everyone has the desire, want to be famous.

Although everyone has the desire to become famous, but many people also understand in their hearts, just to survive a job.

Interior design, he is not art design, and is not a personal cultivation, but more to serve a variety of owners.

Some owners are willing to spend money on design, you have to thank, not to mention that many owners do not want to pay for the design;

And many of the renovation company to launch a free design services, and not to design how important.

So, home interior designers, to become famous is too difficult.

Whether it is urban planning, architecture, interior, landscape, we are just at the beginning of the learning and development stage. To be precise, it is only after the reform and opening up that we began to pay attention to this kind of work.

This kind of learning in foreign countries has been developed for hundreds of years without a break, and modern urban planning and architecture from the Bauhaus Institute, also experienced a hundred years.

It's not that many designers can't make a name for themselves, it's that the market doesn't understand that it's a discipline. The market does not understand why we should honestly give money to foreigners to design, but not to domestic designers. The market also does not understand what this thing to do, that is, to take to the local leadership to see the convenience of taking the land to earn money.

The market doesn't understand what this stuff is for, and the people who run it don't understand how to use it, so the people who do it certainly don't understand how they can become famous, why they become famous, and what they can do after they become famous except make money.

We don't understand, so let's wait until we do and then talk about it.

As long as our designers are called "some kind of worker", our design will not be able to hold its head up in the world.

Here I would like to ask, how many interior designers are real designers?

In our decoration company, we often see such designers: what style of decoration do you like? Then in the hands of the iPad to scratch a bunch of pictures out. Or will be on the computer CAD, 3D, with a template for you to put together a floor plan of your home, with furniture, lights, wall tiles, green plants ..... How about saying this is a rendering of my design for your home? Do you still like it?

Such a scene, such a picture is not very familiar, yes this is what most of the decoration companies called design, this is our daily encounter with the so-called interior designer's work: CAD floor plan + 3D rendering, that is, to your home to do the design.

What is a real interior designer?

One. What some people see as so-called design:

ii. Cultivation and Design

Imitation is one of the necessary and effective means of learning for beginners, and the learning of design is no exception. However, imitation is only a means of learning, only the primary stage of learning, and the free expression of creative ability is the ultimate goal of design and advanced stage.

Here there is an important issue to clarify; what is design, what is the essence of design. Design is thought, thought reflects professionalism. Only by clarifying this issue, there is a direction and purpose to improve the level of design. In the eyes of many practitioners, design is all about skill, in short, drawing. In fact, design is in the final analysis an artistic work, the source of its creation lies in the designer's cultivation. Cultivation of skills is like the kung fu of a kung fu master in a Jin Yong novel, his strokes and internal strength. Skill is a trick, is external, is a short period of time through repeated practice, skillful and skillful, can reach a fairly skilled degree. Cultivation is like internal strength, it is internal, it is a comprehensive reflection of the quality of all aspects of a person, is a person's long-term accumulation and precipitation of life, but does not mean that every 60-year-old person's cultivation can reach the same a realm. In martial arts novels, a person's moves and then perfect, if his internal strength has not reached the corresponding fire, at best, is only a master of the outside world, not enough to be called a master; on the contrary, if there is a fairly deep attainment of internal strength, even if he does not know a little bit of moves, even if it is a brush of the sleeve, but also have the style of everyone, since there is no move better than the move to reach the free realm of the unthinking, easy to use. "In the chest there are gullies, the pen as God", this is the cultivation, that is, our designers should pursue things.

All kinds of artistic qualities are interlinked. Personally, I think, designers on the one hand must continue to improve their professional level in practice, on the other hand, must also improve and strengthen the individual's comprehensive literacy and artistic cultivation, to do the design outside of the kung fu, which is the so-called "the stone of the mountain, you can attack jade". A mature designer must have the qualities of an artist, the rigorous thinking of an engineer, the traveler's rich experience and life experience, the operator's business philosophy, financial experts, cost consciousness. Many design seniors believe that the design is the idea, design is the designer's professional knowledge, life experience, cultural and artistic cultivation, moral character and other aspects of the integrated embodiment. Only the inner cultivation has improved, in order to make the work, fine products, top quality, God products. Otherwise, it is only in the primary stage of imitation, the flow of mediocrity. A character, virtue is not high designer, his design taste will not have a high realm.

III. The Basic Skills of a Mature Designer

A mature designer must have at least the following basic skills within the profession:

Current State of the Industry

I've always had the stubborn notion that most of the current domestic design is still in the process of being developed. Simple and crude Ctrl+C stage, which most of the so-called designers are still just a drawing staff, orders, or even just a half-baked package narrator ......

Let's take a look at some of the current domestic interior designers in the practice of the pain point:

Interior Designer's spring

But in recent years, aesthetic awakening, design consciousness, the pursuit of innovation, embracing fashion trends, attention to detail, care about the minimalist under the small and beautiful concepts continue to rise, people are more and more concerned about the design and the pursuit of spiritual enjoyment, and no longer only satisfied with the enjoyment of the subsistence level. Most of the customers said that their home decoration want to design a good, which greatly promote the rapid development of small and beautiful, fashion, personality, practical, design full of original design, to the interior designers to bring more than enough space for development.

Learning to become a habit, design to become a life

People are precious to the will, when we once the design as a learning or career goals, so that it becomes part of their life plan, only to find that there was such a big distance between the goal and the reality of the target to achieve this goal, there are still quite a long way to go; and not at first thought of pushing the window to catch the moon, The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.

Many people subconsciously think that design is a level or face of the esoteric, or a fashionable and trendy thing. Personally, I don't think so. Design is no different from eating, drinking, or doing anything, it's just a thing to be done. From the point of view of accomplishing a thing, design is no different from selling vegetables in the market or plowing a field, just as there is no difference between an oil seller and an archer, "nothing else, only the hand is familiar with it". Look at the matter of learning design with a normal heart, design is nothing more than a group of ordinary people doing ordinary things, do not suffer from loss, do not rush to success. Self-perceived mystification, a sense of superiority is the taboo of learning design, of course, as a business operation is another story.

Interior design is a systematic discipline. Learning design should focus on the accumulation of professional knowledge and training, but also focus on the accumulation of basic professional knowledge and training, but also focus on the accumulation of non-professional knowledge and training. Don't learn design for the sake of learning design, and don't just focus on learning a certain course or courses in design. Cultivation and knowledge should be broad and deep, professional should be deep and broad, professional and non-professional promote each other. Professional easy to understand, non-professional just and cultivation is often reflected in life experience, experience and wisdom, easy to be ignored.

Learning design, we must insist on using the design of the professional vision of life, learning all the life and design-related things and things, try to make their own learning and design from life, higher than life, and ultimately serve the life. The development of design now promotes the improvement of the quality of life. In real life, design is everywhere, from large buildings to small household items, we would have been living in a world that has been designed.

As a designer engaged in more than thirty years, I also come to share with you my perception of designers:

First of all, as a designer is not to learn 3DMX, CAD, and a variety of rendering software, I do not think this is what designers have to do, we were in the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts in the year of the study is not the software, but rather, the basis of the design, such as drawing, color. Patterns, sketches, art history, creative theory, oil painting, figure sketching and other basic courses, followed by specialized courses, such as perspective, interior design art law, design style, ergonomics and so on. I'm not happy to say that up to today, I don't know CAD, although the use of sketch master is very skillful, but that's just for the design of the program, in the past we are hand-drawn renderings, it is really troublesome, but also not good to do the program modification, only to learn to support a variety of design software.

I would like to say that, as a professional designer you need to train your artistic literacy, your ability to appreciate, your ability to express the law of art communication, you can analyze a variety of theoretical basis of aesthetics, so that your customers feel your professionalism, in addition to which you also need to have a very strong practical ability to engineering, building structure, construction technology, construction organization and design, the use of materials, the combination of costing and design ideas, and to ensure that the design of the project is not only a good design, but also an excellent design. Accounting and design ideas, and so on are the elements of a mature design master. Knowledgeable, elegant speech, solid theory, approachable, humble, so that you can finally get your customers to worship, and finally can dominate the implementation of your design.

I rarely follow the customer's requirements to modify my program, why? Because I think of more than the other side of the problem, I consider the practical function closer to life, I'm not pie in the sky, I know the three principles of practical art: economic, practical, aesthetic use of the whole. I know the three principles of practical art: economy, utility, and aesthetics. The mentors of Zhang Yiman's generation left us a lot of valuable assets.

Decades have passed, from 90 years in Beijing, the first home furnishing one-stop service, and then I used my design to win the company's major development! Pioneered the mobile communications stores, the first in the country to do the year Ericsson cell phone stores, and then almost monopolized the communications industry, all brands such as Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Paragon, Alcatel and so on, corporate display exhibitions, shopping malls, stores during the various cities! The company from an art factory hair Zhang to advertising companies, decoration companies, clothing companies, computer companies, food companies, furniture companies, information companies ... and other integrated group of companies. Of course, due to greed, forgetting that I am a designer, and ultimately paid a terrible price for this arrogance, after losing hundreds of millions of capital, I eventually went bankrupt!

However, my solid design foundation to now still support my interest, my work, I still do my favorite profession! This is a designer's life, brilliant, ruffled, hard, this life as a designer has no longer regret!

This is a breadwinner's job ......

Interior design is not art, please make this clear.

The only way to make a living is to be able to design.

To a large extent, interior design belongs to the service industry, you have to meet the needs of the client or the party, communication, guidance, these good, your head of creative cells to shine.

Want to do masters, want to create their own way, there is a premise: you have to be a "rich man", you have to go to the world's famous buildings, hotels, landmarks to experience to touch to feel, rather than sitting in the company every day to draw cad every day to see the picture. You can't have money, but you must create learning opportunities for yourself, save up some money to go to a good hotel to stay a night, experience what a rich person can experience, you can do good design.

This is a real problem.

China is a huge country with a lot of talent. It doesn't matter what industry you're in, there's a lot of competition.

Design is also, so the competition is fierce do not do?

Not famous also have the opportunity to earn money, famous after all, is a minority of the minority, the need for opportunity. Look at so many decoration company owner is the foreman to do up. Relying on word of mouth by craftsmanship to play the low-end market can also be excellent.