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Empower Your IIDA Experience
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What IIDA Chapter Leaders Are Seeing and Solving For
4 insights on regional markets, the changing design landscape, and how leaders can support their communities -
IIDA Is Where It’s At
IIDA is where design is at, where designers are at, and where the future of the industry is at — join or renew for 2026 -
IIDA Member Moves: Winter 2025
Join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our members as they grow throughout their careers -
IIDA Wrapped: All About Design’s Best Network
Like Spotify Wrapped, these stats tell the story of IIDA in 2025 — with fun facts about membership, education, and the future of the industry -
IIDA Wrapped: Design’s Best Network, by the Numbers
Like Spotify Wrapped, but IIDA style—these stats tell the story of IIDA members over the past year
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I Am IIDA—Join or Renew for 2025!
Be a part of design’s best professional network, and that our members are lifelong learners, leaders and creators who are shaping what’s next for the design industry -
2024 IIDA Chapter Award Winners
Get to know this year's award-winning IIDA Chapters—designing spaces and shaping the future. -
2024 Winter Advocacy Workshop
Advocacy leaders from across the country gathered to discuss where we’ve been and where we’re headed as interior designers -
Elevating Leadership: 2024 Winter CLC
Redefining the essence of leadership in the design industry—insights from our winter Chapter Leadership Council -
REVEL in Design at the Four Seasons
Raise your glass with IIDA at the 2024 black tie event celebrating 30 years of IIDA and the best in interior design while kicking off NeoCon -
Kaelynn Reid: Design Futurist
Reid talks design and having meaningful conversations with her IIDA community
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Publications
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2025 Annual Report
Design has always been an act of optimism: a declaration that things can be better, and that the professionals who shape our environments have a meaningful role to play in that betterment. We enter the future with an expanded knowledge base, a wider reach, a growing membership. -
IIDA Industry Roundtable Report 28
Change in inevitable. But how are we cultivating deeper knowledge that allows us to anticipate change and apply new strategies and ideas? We address Coherence, Identity, Trust, and Relationships. -
Perspective: Design is Everywhere
Design is a way to organize and umderstanding the world; it's a carefully calibrated story that moves us through life and helps us define our own stories. -
IIDA Industry Roundtable Report 27
Designed for Joy: Fostering human happiness in the spaces we inhabit | From "Achieving Awe" and "Thinking Big" we investigated the impact of joy, comfort, and fun at Industry Roundtable. Big ideas were shared, business challenges examined, friendships were fostered, and the seeds of innovation took root. -
Where It's At | An Insider Design Guide from IIDA CEO Cheryl Durst
Where It's At | An Insider Design Guide from IIDA CEO Cheryl Durst
You may have been to Chicago... but you haven't really been to Chicago until you've checked out IIDA CEO Cheryl Durst's secret spots. Download the guide here -
Perspective: Designing for Joy
From delight to design: see how joy takes shape in the spaces we live, work, and dream in. -
2024 Annual Report
As much as things change, others stay beautifully “evergreen.” Design is and has always been human-focused, forward-looking, and fundamentally optimistic. And for more than 30 years, IIDA has had the privilege of listening to, advocating for, and working alongside design professionals to keep our industry dynamic, agile, relevant, and resilient. -
Perspective: The State of Education
In this issue, we examine the state of education. From our Design Your World and Certified Design Futurist programs to higher ed and beyond, we delve into curriculum, educators, and what comes next. -
Perspective: The Business of Design
This issue of Perspective, we dive into the business of design — from brands big and small. A family-owned furniture manufacturer reinventing itself through the lens of high fashion; what designers wish they knew before launching their firms; being an effective leader; and much more! -
IIDA Industry Roundtable Report 26
The New Face of Design: Creating for Humanity in a Tech-Enabled Future | Centering Humanity in Tech-Enabled Design | The Sustainability Challenge crowd-sourcing with the Industry Roundtable think tank | Big Qs/IR Answers: The Relationship Edition for designers/manufacturers | Context of Design: A tech-filled future centering design intelligence -
2023 Annual Report
This year marks 30 years since the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) was chartered, at NeoCon 1994. Any anniversary brings with it a moment of looking back, but as we lean into this year, we are more determined than ever to look forward, and to work alongside you to point IIDA toward a future that includes a strong, vital, and relevant design industry. -
Perspective: Next Wave
Perspective Next Wave examines what's next—from immersive experiential design to the technologies that revolutionize our approach to design. Directing our gaze forward we explore the world of possibility that lies within the question, "What comes next?" -
Perspective: Sustainable Futures
The best sustainable practice, it seems, is to start with what you can do, right now. We look to designers guided by a deep-seated, urgent commitment to sustainability as a core value from Alvin Oei of Disney and indigenous architect Wanda Dalla Costa on ethical relationality, this issue is inspiring and world-changing. -
IIDA Industry Roundtable Report 25
The future starts now: For 25 years, we've gathered at the IIDA Industry Roundtable, this year we decide where the next 25 years might take our community of thinkers and doers in design. We’ve built a strong network of diverse viewpoints — we challenge each other, but we’re allied and united in our strong intention to build a better design industry and profession. We’ve equipped a generation of leaders with actionable plans and strategies.
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