Podcast
Welcome to 2¢/sqft!
Here, you can join us as we spend time with a host of professional designers and allied industry professionals to hear about their professional paths. Over the course of our experience in the contract interior design industry, we have talked repeatedly about the “hidden careers” that are outside the traditional path of an Interior Designer. We are thrilled to shed light on these career paths by getting further acquainted with some of the interesting people that make up this industry, and we hope you’ll enjoy their stories and tips as much as we have.
Trey Champion
In This Episode...Trey Champion is a man of multiple creative talents; he started his career arc as a professional musician, and then made his way into design. We are excited to post our talk with Trey about his career pathway, which has most recently led to a...
Meredith Campbell
In This Episode...Meredith Campbell shares her journey through design, then sales, and finally, into design research. She and her ThinkLab colleagues dig deep into the pressing challenges facing the industry, and are hacking away to resolve them…and all of this while...
Ronnie Belizaire Part 2
In This Episode...You are not seeing double! Our conversation with Ronnie ambled into such interesting territory, that we needed to do this one as a two-parter. In the second half of our discussion, she shares more about her professional arc, and brings us up to...
Ronnie Belizaire
In This Episode...Ronnie Belizaire has had an unusual trajectory through business school to Interior Design. Outside of a remarkable professional experience, she has had the opportunity to utilize her design skills during a relief trip to Haiti, and she shares some...
Naheed Jahid-Rahman
In This Episode... We chat with Naheed Jahid-Rahman about her journey from design school into her professional life, mostly on the end user side. Her experience at Warner Media, working on designs for a set of wildly creative internal clients, spotlights the way...
Olivia Hutchinson
In This Episode... We are talking with Olivia Hutchison, who is a project manager at Colliers International in Atlanta. Her Lincoln Log playtime as a child clued her in that a path in design would be a winner for her. Our conversation takes us along her path...
Patricia Buckner
In This Episode... We sat down with Patricia Buckner to find out how she made her way from shoe model to contract industry flooring rep. This is a great discussion with a host of details on how life as a rep works. We also get to find out how this "Munchkin Rep"...
Nicole Lankford
In This Episode... We sat down with Patricia Buckner to find out how she made her way from shoe model to flooring rep. This is an insightful conversation into the details of being a rep that will be helpful for someone considering that path. She also tells us how she...
Tara Ackermann & Cas Swope
In This Episode...We are taking a break from our usual pattern and closing out the year with a conversation just between us. We share a bit more about our own backgrounds, what aspects of our design educations have stayed with us, and the importance of network.
Bryanna Mercer
In This Episode...In this episode, we spend time with Bryanna Mercer chatting about how she launched from SCAD to KI, and her evolution in their organization. There's a great anecodote in here that shows the importance of just showing up...sometimes mercilessly early.