Cutting Edge Interior Design Firm Transforms Simple to Simply Sublime

By Kelly Richardson
Career Colleges Columnist

If you don't know about the IDEO interior design team, then you haven't been paying attention to pop culture in the past decade. These are the guys that gave us Nike's wraparound sunglasses and Apple's first mouse. Now they have their visionary sites set on the interiors of hospitals.

The IDEO story is one made in interior design heaven. The Palo Alto, California based firm is responsible for some of the major design ideas of the past ten years. And in their quest to turn the ordinary into extraordinary, IDEO is transforming some of our nation's hospitals into visions of the future. Doctors in these hospitals have been amazed at what this professional interior design firm has been able to do with basic areas of their buildings. IDEO's philosophy is form meeting function.

IDEO Interior Design: Raising the Degree of Comfort

Reinventing the Cubicle. IDEO first took on the interior design of basic working areas such as nurse's stations and cubicles.
Patient Driven. Knowing how the patients interact with hospital staff dictated many of the firm's interior design ideas.
The Train Game. Amtrak is another major company that put these interior design professionals to work.

If the interior design field sound interesting to you, you should know that this career field that is always needing fresh talent. Here is what the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has to say about the online interior design degree.

An Online Interior Degree

Chic Environment. After earning your online interior design degree, you will be working in some incredible home and office spaces.
Bright Outlook. Interior design positions for online degree holders will grow as fast as the national average through the year 2012.
Intensive Training. Most online degree programs in interior design last three to four years.

Try this unique mix of aesthetics and logic in one exciting career field. Earn your online interior design degree and be a part of the trend.

About the Author
Kelly Richardson covers the local education and technology scenes in major cities across the country. His articles appear in a variety of respected educational journals, periodicals, and e-zines.

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