Designing Your Business Strategies for Interior Design Professionals

Designing Your Business brings the expertise of a business and legal professional to the practice of interior design. Accordingly, the book serves as a strong reference for basic business and legal concepts. It aims to make students savvy business people as well as creative interior designers. In an accessible tone, the text explores business organization, and legal and ethical issues that arise in the practice of interior design. Business finance and accounting are also explained by showing the necessity of adequately defining a designer's scope of services and methods of charging. The textual explanations are augmented with chapter exercises and projects that simulate the actual, day-to-day work issues faced by interior designers. The book's hands-on approach and engaging interactive pedagogy bring relevance to the topics of law and business and show interior design students how their business decisions can facilitate their professional practices.

Gordon Kendall has taught various courses at Southwest Texas State University. An attorney with an MBA degree, he combines his legal and business knowledge with his teaching experience to prepare interior design students for their careers.