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Marymount ID Students Win Second Place in IDEC Video Competition

3/31/2014

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Marymount Interior Design students win second place in 2014 Interior Design Video Education Competition sponsored by IDEC, IIDA, CIDA, NCIDQ and Interiors and Sources.

From Classroom to the Office
Students: Luis Felipe Bravo, Livi Pejo, Michelle Bendit, Katie Scheer, Tan Nguyen
Faculty Advisor: Moira Denson
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Fixing Revit’s pesky Hardware Acceleration Display Error

2/5/2013

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I continue to receive this error from students using laptops with power-saving graphics cards or graphics cards that are older than 3 years. Below is a quick fix.

DISPLAY ERROR
An error has occurred while drawing the contents of this window.
This window shall be closed.

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You’ve got to watch this video – Why Interior Designers Matter

4/16/2012

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SKETCHUP: COLORED PENCIL DIGITAL RENDERING TECHNIQUE

6/22/2011

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Here’s another great SketchUp / Photoshop digital rendering tutorial by Jason Christiansen. Jason uses both SketchUp and Photoshop (with the fotosketcher plugin) to create perspective renderings with a hand-rendered look.
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Read the full tutorial at sketchupartists.org
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Be wrong, I dare you.

3/12/2011

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Every design student (actually every young designer) should read Alina Tugend’s new book, Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong.

In an excerpt published in today’s New York Times, Tugend interviews Jeff Szymanski, executive director of the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation in Boston.

Dr. Szymanski says
[A perfectionist's] need for perfection can also sabotage their own success.
They do not turn in projects on time because they’re not yet perfect.
They can’t prioritize what needs to be done quickly and what needs more time to complete.
They want to rigidly follow rules to get things “right,” and this often means they’re terribly uncreative, because creativity involves making mistakes.

This last observation should be most troubling to designers that want to be creative while at the same time fear mistakes. It is difficult to accomplish both at the same time. Remove the fear of mistakes and enjoy a newfound freedom to be creative.

Read the full excerpt from Tugend’s book at: http://nyti.ms/h5XsnI

Buy the book now at: amazon.com
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