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No Design Legislation · 1Y ago

MA Designers Need Letters to Oppose Design Bidding Bill

This bill is being introduced in Massachusetts    Please Pass Along:   Letters Needed to Oppose Design Bidding Bill  Interior Design Lobby Still Seeks to Limit Right to Work   Take Action! Lobby Makes Last Minute Push to Enact Restriction on Bidding Even as the legislative session winds down, the in
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No Design Legislation · 2Y ago

New Video – Free to Design: Florida Entrepreneurs Take On the Interior Design Cartel

New video about the lawsuit challenging Florida’s anticompetitive interior design law. The Institute for Justice’s Clark Neily explains the growth of red tape and licensing laws which have led to an explosion of governmental controls on occupations that were never regulated before. Legislation has a
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No Design Legislation · 2Y ago

Designed to Exclude Minorities and Career-Changers & Increase Consumer Costs

A new study by economics professors David E. Harrington and Jaret Treber of Kenyon College entitled “Designed to Exclude: How Interior Design Insiders Use Government Power to Exclude Minorities & Burden Consumers” reveals some shocking information. Not only is interior design legislation anticompeti
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No Design Legislation · 2Y ago

Florida Governor Signs Bill Regarding Foodservice Dealers and Kitchen Design

Another nail in the coffin of anticompetitive interior design legislation in Florida.  As noted, legislation of this nature is likely to have broad implications for designers of professional kitchens throughout the country if they are not licensed interior designers, and bodes well for complete over
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No Design Legislation · 2Y ago

Plan Check Denial in Los Angeles?

CCIDC needs your help We are looking for Certified Interior Designers who have been denied plan check for their non-structural, non-seismic interior design plans by the Los Angeles Dept. of Building & Safety (LADBS) and If you reside in the City of Los Angeles and are willing to contact your Los Ang
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No Design Legislation · 2Y ago

FL Barred From Enforcing Title Law Provisions!

Florida judge defends designers’ First Amendment rights! This is yet the latest example of the courts upholding our right to call ourselves interior designers without restriction, and to freely advertise exactly what we do. The dominos are falling one by one, but more and more quickly now. Spread th
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No Design Legislation · 2Y ago

Help for Victims of Florida’s Witch Hunt

Help for victims of Florida’s WITCH HUNT! Interior Design Protection Council Legal assistance! Over the last year, many designers who live or provide services in Florida have contacted me for a legal recommendation to understand and defend against the Board of Architecture and Interior Design (BOAID
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No Design Legislation · 2Y ago

CT Law Ruled Unconstitutional!

The Institute for Justice has scored another victory in our Campaign for Economic Liberty, our multi-year effort to elevate economic liberty to national prominence like we did with the issues of school choice and eminent domain abuse. In this lawsuit, we challenged a Connecticut state law that allow
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No Design Legislation · 2Y ago

Why Design Legislation is Bad for Students

Laws regulating the practice of interior design and restricting it to those who have met the pro-legislation cartel’s narrow standards are not in the best interests of the profession as a whole, and particularly not those of current or future students. According to renowned kitchen design expert Dr.
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No Design Legislation · 2Y ago

AIP Officials Sweep Student Coercion Under the Rug

The battle over AIPs coercive assignment to lobby legislators in support of Pennsylvania HB 1521 heats up, fueled by public outrage and president George Pry and interior design department chair Kelly Spewock’s assertions that no coercion was used. Both administrators continue to claim that students
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