This document discusses the different areas and sectors of interior design including retail, visual branding, corporate, healthcare, hospitality, institutional, industrial, teaching, and private employment. It also lists factors like culture, economics, politics, geography, and others that can influence interior design choices. Finally, it provides an assignment asking the reader to make a T-chart comparing their favorite and least favorite rooms and why.

1. What is Interior Design?

2. What does Interior Design mean to
you?
 Who do you think influences modern interior
design?
 How do the other aspects we listed affect
interior design choices?
› Culture
› Economics
› Politics
› Geographical Location
› What are the other things you think affect
interior design?

3.  Retail: includes malls and shopping centers, department stores, specialty
stores, visual merchandising and showrooms.
 Visual and Spatial Branding: The use of space as a media to express the
Corporate Brand
 Corporate: office design for any kind of business such as banks
 Healthcare: the design of hospitals, assisted living facilities, medical
offices, dentist offices, psychiatric facilities, laboratories, medical specialist
facilities
 Hospitality and Recreation: includes hotels, motels, resorts, cafes, bars,
restaurants, health clubs and spas, etc.
 Institutional: government offices, financial institutions (banks and credit
unions), schools and universities, religious facilities, etc.
 Industrial facilities: manufacturing and training facilities as well as import
and export facilities.
 Teaching in a private institute that offer classes of Interior Design
 Self-Employment
 Employment in private sector firms

4. Assignment
 Make a T Chart!
 One side: What is your favorite
room, and why? Bullet points!
 Other side: What is your least
favorite room, and why? Bullet
points!