Our next designer has a Bachelors from Iowa State and Masters degree from Cornell University, both in interior design and specializes in commercial interiors and lighting design.
Jeanne has been a designer for 30 years and is now an Associate Professor in Interior Design in the Department of Applied Design at Appalachian State University but still designs for clients on the side.
Her favorite part of being a designer is problem solving, the combination of art and science, and making great spaces for people. Her least favorite is working for unprofessional people and working with people who are poor-planners and do things last minute.
Jeanne was lucky enough to have her dream career, she was a commercial designer for restaurants both here in the United States and internationally. Her work was published in many magazines and books. She worked on high profile projects and had a great boss and coworkers. She says she know has her second dream job, getting to share her knowledge and shape her students into successful designers.
Common misconceptions that she has faced are “The misunderstanding between interior decorating and interior design that is perpetuated in the media, mainly by the general public, and their misuse of terminology. I understand construction, codes, etc. I approach things from a human behavioral and conceptual basis.”
She said that her education did give her the basics in interior design, you can only learn so much in four years, but her actually job experience helped shape her into the designer that she is today.
Check out Jeanne’s side design business http://www.envistudio.com.
Happy designing, Jeanne!
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