Friday, October 21, 2011

Integrity in interior design

Many people mentioned about integrity in interior design field usually was about billing related issues such as designers bought very inexpensive things from foreign countries or whole salers but marked up 200% - 300% of the whole sale price and sell them to their clients. For me, that is stealing. However, there is another kind of stealing in this business which is tweaking other designers' designs to become their own. To me, it is just like piracy. In China, you can buy name brand stuff in very low price, and after you look into the trade marks, they are always missing one letter or spell one letter wrong, even if the manufacturer changed one letter of the trade marks, it is still considered piracy. Many interior designers including some of those famous ones do not want to spend too much time on design developing, they want to move from one project to the next quickly in order to make more money, they cut corners on design development. They read different magazines and "borrow" this idea and that idea and combine them together or make small changes on other people's designs and become their own, for me, that is also stealing. If the only thing they know is tweaking other people's designs, why not calling themselves interior tweakers?! Have some dignity and integrity!

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