October 19, 2009
Contact: Alexis Fermanis at 202.721.0220
WASHINGTON, DC—The National Council for Interior Design Qualification, Inc. (NCIDQ) has partnered with the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) and the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) to host an interior design education video competition. The competition, open to interior design students, interior design educators and interior design practitioners, calls for the creation of a short video that will demonstrate the importance of established interior design education and examination standards. The videos will be reviewed by a panel of judges from IDEC, NCIDQ and CIDA.
This competition has been established to change the current perception of interior design – demonstrating that interior designers are well educated, examined and skilled.
“Increasing the voice of interior design by not one, but hundreds of designers is monumental to the advancement of the profession,” says IDEC Executive Director Jeffrey Beachum. “Now students, educators and practitioners all have the chance to define the profession and demonstrate their view of interior design and the importance of education and the NCIDQ Examination to them.”
“We look forward to witnessing how interior designers perceive their own value as professionals and how they portray that value to the public,” says NCIDQ Executive Director Jeffrey F. Kenney. “This competition is a great way to introduce to new audiences the importance of health, safety and welfare to the profession of interior design, showing that design is more than just putting paint on a wall.”
Three winners will be announced and each will receive a cash prize, certificate of achievement and an opportunity to have his or her video hosted on IDEC, NCIDQ and CIDA’s Web sites.
The competition begins October 19, 2009. All videos must be completed and uploaded to the IDEC Web site dropbox by February 15, 2010. For more information on the contest and instructions on how to submit a video, visit www.idec.org/videocompetition.htm.
NCIDQ® is an organization of regulatory boards and provincial associations in the United States and Canada whose core purpose is to protect the health, life safety and welfare of the public by establishing standards of competence in the practice of interior design. More information about the organization may be found at www.ncidq.org.
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