New Home, Same Great Content

As you know, here at the New York Institute of Art and Design we're going through some exciting changes.

Just a few weeks ago we changed our name from the Sheffield School to the New York Institute of Art and Design. At the same time we added two new courses in Professional Blogging and Fiction and Memoir Writing. And when we did that, we launched a brand new, fully-redesigned website at www.nyiad.edu!

Well, we wanted to let you know about another change that we're making today...

While the content already here and the blog are not going anywhere, we will no longer be updating the blog with new posts. But before you get too upset, the reason for doing this is simply that we're moving all of our new content to the new website!

Part of the reason we created the new site was so that we could feature more outstanding student work and success stories, and develop new and exciting articles that will inspire and teach people interested in the fields that we teach.

Starting next week, all new content will be posted to this page. You can make sure never to miss it by signing up for our Free Monthly Newsletter, or subscribing to the new RSS feed.

Just to reiterate, this blog is going to stay put. But this will be the last post.

Thanks for your interest in the New York Institute of Art and Design! And we hope you continue to enjoy all the free content that we produce.

How to Get a Design Proposal Accepted: Get Inside Your Client's Head

So you've spent a lot of time as an interior designer putting together a great client proposal. You've done the shopping, your homework has been flawless, your creative shines through each element of the design you're giving to your client - but something is wrong! Your client isn't budging. They want to see more chairs (after you've showed them every chair in your local showrooms) or they're balking about the budget, or the color's not quite right, or.... What's a designer to do?

I tried tackling this all-too-common issue for interior designers (and other creative businesspeople who are trying to cater to the custom design needs of their clients) and wrote an article for the Williams-Sonoma Designer Marketplace Blog called Why You Should Care (a Lot) About Getting Inside Your Client's Head. Click on the link and enjoy. Please tell me what you think and leave a comment on the W-S blog - and look through the blog as it's a great resource for design lovers.

If you're interested in learning more about how to take your creative interests to the next level, we encourage you to explore the Sheffield School, New York, NY. Sheffield began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

Request a free Sheffield School catalog describing our distance education courses.

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Sheffield Student Success: Layla Palmer

If you click on the logo above for Apartment Therapy's annual Best Home Design Blog competition, you'll see The Lettered Cottage as one of the finalists for Best Home Design Blog. Congratulations to our Sheffield School graduate Layla Palmer and her husband Kevin for making the grade and wowing readers with your energetic brand of do-it-yourself home decor enthusiasm!

Here are some of the other Homies winners:

• Best Home Design Blog: Bower Power
• Best Family Blog: Rockstar Diaries
• Best DIY Blog: A Beautiful Mess
• Best Recipe Blog: Munchin with Munchkin
• Best Healthy Cooking Blog: The Clothes Make The Girl
• Best Food Photography on a Blog: Nom Nom Paleo

Sheffield School began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

Request a free Sheffield School catalog describing our distance education courses.

Subscribe to the Sheffield Designer newsletter.

Designer Seeks Answer

We love it when someone who knows a lot admits to needing help. And we also love Heather Clawson's  design sense as exhibited on her blog, http://habituallychic.blogspot.com/

Today, she's asking for help from readers. She has a client who's fallen in love with the wallcovering shown here, which is from the Roger Arlington showroom, which has, sadly, gone out of business.

Click to read more ...