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The IDI program, fast-paced and highly interactive, benefits both experienced design professionals and those new to the industry.
Trend Program
Not to Be Missed:
Inspiration and Technique—5 signature showcases throughout the day!
Live on-stage a sampling of actual window fashions and interior products that emulate each of our four GMI trends. Not sure how to interpret Chymestry or HyperRegionalism for your clients? We'll show you how through dozens of examples you can photograph and examine yourself. Jump-start your trend assortment with the exclusive GMI window-fashion designs, fabrics, trims, wall coverings, and accessories. We'll give you the how-to instruction and techniques to translate those designs into astounding window fashions.
8:30-9:00
Registration Open - Coffee and Bagels Available
9:00-9:30
Why Design Matters
For many, "trends" are silly, superficial, and simply driven by media hype. But true trends are based on changes in consumer needs and behaviors. Recognizing and responding effectively to trends is a great way to grow your business; it's fun and fits your natural abilities as a designer. We'll show our process of trend development with real-life examples of the impact of the Design Economy that you can immediately apply to your own business.
9:30
Our first trend takes an approach to luxury based on sublime, individualized experiences—indulgent, emotional, and enveloping.
Edenism: Extreme Connoisseurs, Marie Antoinette Moment, and Vie Luxe
These are the new directions for the luxury market. Edenism is about making every moment significant, emphasizing the rare and the unique, and indulging your senses to the utmost extreme.
Edenism Inspiration and Technique:
Dreamy, dramatic, and unabashedly over-the-top, these are the window fashions and accessories for the luxe life.
Sip & Snip:
A refreshing and entertaining break in the day, Sip & Snip presents the opportunity to examine some of the materials that are integral to trends. Snip swatches of wallpaper and fabrics to build your own trend reference library while we discuss the fabrics appropriateness, why they fit the trends, and what will and won't work.
10:30
Break
10:40
Design-o-nomics
What does design have to do with Multiple Personalities, Gen. C, and Experience Economy? Discover how these consumer behaviors are changing entire industries and how they impact the future of design. Today reality appears too grim and oppressive so we turn to fantasies and look back to ancient beliefs in hopes that they answer some current questions. Our second trend features:
Alchemy: Cabinet of Curiosities, Chymestry, and Renegade Craft
Transformation, mystery, discovery, and more, the ancient pseudo-science of Alchemy has surprisingly wide-spread impact on today's design scene.
Alchemy Inspiration and Technique:
Not sure how to interpret Chymestry or Renegade craft for your clients? We'll show you how with dozens of mutable and magical real-life samples of window-fashions and decorative accessories that showcase Deb Barrett's and Joan Willis' modern-day design wizardry.
Spotlight: The Best Thing You Ever Did (for Your Business!)
An opportunity to learn from others by sharing the best move you ever made to grow your business. We'll also share input from previous sessions.
12:00-1:30
Lunch
1:45
Our third trend focuses on purity of materials and cleanliness of design.
SimpliCity: Brownstone, Loft, and East Village
Inspiring, energizing, and open to all, the world's great cities have always been incubators for new looks and trends. We'll show you three new design directions based on life in the city.
SimpliCity Inspiration and Technique:
Ranging from sparse elegance to comforting warmth, edgy objets trouvé inspiration to cutting-edge use of materials, you'll see dozens of new window-fashion samples and accessories.
3:00
Marketing & Multiple Personalities
You're the designer, the bookkeeper, the salesperson, the project manager, the customer-service rep, and that's just in your professional life! How do you manage to fit in the role of marketing director? We'll cover some quick, easy, and effective ways to hone your message and help you implement simple and productive marketing techniques into your already over-scheduled life.
Marketing Miracles
A quick-fire show-and-tell session where we cover some of the most interesting, effective, and ingenious business-building strategies employed by other designers and workrooms across the country.
Spotlight: Worth Your Weight in Gold
How valuable are you to your clients? How valuable are you to your suppliers? Are you making the money you deserve? We discuss these and other pricing topics in this fast-paced brainstorming session.
Universal Neighborhood: HyperRegionalism, The Global Market, and Empathic Explorers
A generation and more into the progress of globalization means that many consumers today have a new set of international cultural references. But as multi-culturalism becomes more commonplace, regional identities have taken on renewed importance. We showcase some of the products and services that appeal to these highly mobile, extremely selective consumers.
Universal Neighborhood Inspiration and Technique:
Blending the international and the local, the exotic and the expected, and drawing inspiration from tribal ceremonies and family history, you'll see dozens of new window-fashion treatments and accessories.
Charette
A lively and inspiring wrap up to the program where you can apply all of your new resources and information. The sky's the limit as you implement creative new ideas based on GMI trends. This session promises to be thought provoking and inspiring, leaving you with forward-thinking ideas that aid in your business today, tomorrow, and beyond.
4:30
Source Night: with Vendors, Cocktails, Appetizers, and Prize Drawings
8:00
Show Floor closes
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