IFDA’s educational foundation announces professional grants for 2024

Applications will be accepted between June 1 and June 30, 2024, for five professional grants from the Educational Foundation (EF) of IFDA, the International Furnishings and Design Association. Since 1968, this 77-year-old global design industry alliance has awarded grants to talented professionals as well as scholarships to high-achieving design students, internationally. Last year, the funds awarded for scholarships and grants to taled $30,000.  

Kalco Lighting announces partnership with interior design experts Lyndsay Lamb and Leslie Davis

Real estate agents and HGTV’s Unsellable Houses Hosts Lyndsay & Leslie will infuse Kalco’s luxury lighting into 2024 projects

DAA 2025-2026 Committee Applications Open to Industry 

The Diversity Advocacy Alliance (DAA), working in partnership with the High Point Market Authority (HPMA), has opened its 2025-2026 committee member applications to the industry, through June 21.

The Evars Effect: reimagining the trade showroom experience for the modern age

After successful stints in public relations and launching her own interior design firm, Nancy Evars founded Evars Collective in 2020, which includes two multi-line showrooms in the California Bay Area that serve as a creative hub for the design community and have quickly become togo-to trade resources in the bay. 

ArtSeen celebrates 30 years of bridging the gap between designers and artists

Leonardo Ledesma, founder of the LA-based art curation company ArtSeen, has spent three decades collaborating with top designers and sourcing art works from a global array of talented artists.

No more boring lamps

Austin Allen James explores unconventional shapes, materials, and creative approaches to design lamps as sculptural art pieces that set the mood and create a unique ambiance in any space.

7 Tips for Using AI in Your Business

Interior designer and artificial intelligence expert Jenna Gaidusek encourages others to not fear AI or get frustrated by it. And she’s got helpful ideas for incorporating AI tools into your workflow.

Design Maestro: Bringing the indoors out

In this month’s edition of Design Maestro, superstar builder Scott Harris eases us into Summer with his tips to create an outdoor living retreat.

San Francisco Design Week 2024 7th annual Design Awards winners

“We are extremely excited San Francisco Design Week Awards is returning this year,” says SFDW Director Dawn Zidonis. “As with previous years, the quality of the many entries exceeded our expectations of our theme, ‘ATTENTION’. Congratulations to this year’s outstanding winners!”

Ro Sham beaux returns to DMC

For the first time in more than a decade, Ro Sham Beaux will return to the Dallas Market Center, exhibiting at Lightovation from June 16 to June 19.