The Designer’s Shadow

What an amazing experience!

This is the second year that ASID does the Real World Design Week (RWDW) and hopefully will continue to do it for years to come. During this week students can register on the ASID website with a designer or showroom for a one day internship. I shadowed Ms. Diane Mallory, who just so happens to be the ASID Texas Chapter President.

We walked various showrooms with a client of hers, selecting furniture in the morning. Then in the afternoon, another student designer from El Centro College in Dallas joined us and we then went to a tile showroom to make selections for flooring and wall tiles for the bathrooms in another client’s home.

Ms. Mallory was able to give me a tour of a home she was designer for her client, and it was amazing! From a student point of view, where you make selections for a space and put it on a presentation board with drawings and images, and having to imagine what the finished space would look like, it is absolutely amazing to see selections installed and in action! WOW! WOW! WOW!

This experience has truly renewed my passion and has motivated me to strive for more creative options, and too look at my current school projects, and jump into them even deeper. I am absolutely glad I decided to take advantage of this chance to shadow a designer, and I will remind my fellow students to do so next year. This is truly an experience that helps us as students realize what the Real World in our design industry is like, and to help us know what to expect.