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PORTFOLIOS FOR INTERIOR DESIGNERS

A Guide to Portfolios, Creative Resumes, and the Job Search

Maureen Mitton

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To my mother, who bought me a portfolio (and a blue wool suit) so that I would finally stop waiting tables and hanging out at the beach. And to my father, who thought nothing of driving across the country—any country—to see what was on the other side.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book would not be even remotely possible without the many generous people who contributed the wonderful work that graces its pages. I have thoroughly enjoyed the process of looking at work by so many talented and helpful people. If time and space allowed, I would write a paragraph about each contributor; instead, a simple list will have to suffice.

A special thank-you to Ambica Prakash and Bob Atwell, who both contributed major chapter content. Bill Wikrent at the University of Wisconsin-Stout provided excellent technical information on a number of topics. As usual, the staff at Wiley has been wonderful, thank you to Paul Drougas, Sadie Abuhoff, and David Sassian. Andrew Miller seems to have taken my confusing sentences and made them into real paragraphs, for that I am very thankful.

I do thank all of you from the bottom of my heart.

Contributors list, in order of appearance:

(Schools and educators have been listed at the request of the contributor.)

Jim Taft

Melissa Brewer

Nicole Banaszewski

Laura Purcell

Shelley Pecha

Mollie Drabik

Sharon M. Stickney

Hannah M. Sparks

Jennifer Irey, Iowa State University. Instructor: Cigdem Akkurt.

Camilla Stine

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Catherine Popp, The Illinois Institute of Art-Schaumburg. Instructor: Suzann Nordstrom.

Pina Zangaro

Elizabeth Kruse

Jordan Breedlove

Jaime Schreiner, Iowa State University. Instructor: Cigdem Akkurt.

Denis Belenko

Katie Carlson

Ivan Trushin

Jennifer Leafblad

Hannah Roesler

Elizabeth Calka

Nathan Piper

Amy Stemper

Holly Sivula

Katie Goznian

Lindsay Lindner

Dustin Sparks

Julia Stephan

Lisa Schwennsen

Timothy Dolan

Carlin Traugott Cambell, Appalachian State University. Instructors: Timothy Dolan, Jeanne Mercer-Ballard.

Laura Van Der Sanden

Jennifer Pike, University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art & Planning (DAAP).

Amelia Treptow

Jennifer Williams, Florida State University. Instructor: Lisa Waxman.

Helen Woods

Katie Cantwell

Holly McWhorter

Julian Hensch

Clive Walters, Liverpool John Moores University

Katarzyna Borowy

Kyle Snyder

Molly Naparsteck

Dayna Beck, Westwood College

Emily Nettler

Thank you all again.

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