The Business of Design | Beyond the Classroom

Dear Alice | Interior Design

Alice Lane

Design, Visual Arts, Arts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Design is a wild and complicated business to get into. Of all the designers out there, somehow we all end up doing it differently. In the school of design, they don’t teach you that your business should be done a certain way, they just teach you the art of design and the different types of design: commercial, residential, etc., or little classes that teach you how to do things like purchase orders, sales estimates, how to work with vendors, and internal trade secrets that you’ll need to know, but how to run a business is much more broad and really just comes down to the individual and their way of doing things. What we’re watching right now on TV 2:00 What is the business of design like after college? 8:00 Stay busy 19:00 A lot of ways to do things 22:20 Everyone wears a lot of hats 25:00 Where will you be the most satisfied? 30:25 Self evaluation 32:20 Attach yourself to people you admire and respect, and you must be passionate and confident in your style 34:30 “I do think that those with a good attitude are also grateful, and when you’re grateful, I feel like you’re anxiously engaged. When you’re not grateful, you’re like ‘Oh, lucky you. You get me.’ But those that are grateful work better with other people. They’re humble, and they learn faster. If you can be humble, you’ll learn a lot faster. You’ll get to the finish line on any project you’re working on a lot quicker, when you’re grateful.” 21:44 https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/ https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/ https://alicelanehome.com/ https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHome https://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/ https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecity News Letter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5

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0:17.0	Welcome to Dear Alice, a lifestyle approach to interior design. Hello everyone, welcome to dear Alice we are here with Corey Place. Hey how's it going and
0:28.2	Sue Hall. Hello. Thanks for joining us guys today's podcast is going to be about the business of design,
0:36.2	which is a wild business to be in.
0:38.8	It's crazy.
0:39.8	It really is.
0:40.8	That's Friday.
0:41.8	Complicated. And the funny thing is, as that I feel like of all the designers out there
0:45.8	Somehow we all do what we do very differently. It's not like I don't know about, but in school they didn't teach you like this is the business of design and this is how you should run your business.
0:58.0	They just taught you the art of design, right? And the different types of design, commercial, residential, right?
1:05.2	They have like little classes that tell you about like how to do purchase orders,
1:08.2	how to do sales estimates, how to like work with vendors, things like that,
1:11.6	like internal trade things that you'll need to know but how to run a business it's just it's
1:16.4	too it's about it's like saying like women there's only one way to have a baby
1:21.1	and this is how you do.
1:22.6	You know, like, and you have to go to this.
1:24.8	And like, there's just like, you can do things so many different ways,
1:28.8	you know, and then design, it's not only subjective and it's like aesthetic but just like in the way people work
1:36.7	how they work with people how they work internally it's complicated it isn't complicated and
1:41.7	usually like in most design firms, you know, you're wearing like one person is wearing five hats because there's just so many processes that you have to go through to get it done. So definitely. It's complicated. It is complicated and we're going to get into it today. We are going to get into it. But first I want to know from Sue and
1:58.8	Corey what are you watching on TV right now? How are you entertaining yourself this fall?
2:04.0	I said I told you guys this while we were setting up but for the first time ever I'm
2:09.6	watching the office. I'm so happy for you. I'm on season, I'm end of season two right now.
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