Join us Wednesday, October 27th and Thursday, October 28th 2020 for Design Chicago, the Midwest’s Largest Residential Design Conference featuring two days of education, product features and design inspiration from the kitchen, bath and home furnishings showrooms at the Merchandise Mart.
Visit designchicagoevent.com to learn more.
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Instagram for Business in 2021
May 19, 2021 │ 11:30am CT │ Zoom Webinar Presentation
Overview:
Lizzie Campbell is back to help you take your Instagram game to the next level. While creating beautiful images for your feed is important, using the app to promote your business in 2021 takes much more than just pretty pictures. From Stories to Reels to infusing strategy into your content, she will be covering all the things you need to stand out on Instagram in 2021 and beyond.
In this session, you will learn how to:
•Build your brand
•Attract a qualified audience
•Understand the algorithm and use it to your advantage
•Find and interpret insights and analytics
•Use a scheduling tool to plan, manage and automate content
•Attract new business leads
This presentation will inspire you to harness the power of social media to your advantage.
Speakers:
Lizzie Campbell
Lizzie Campbell is a designer, business coach and strategist for creative business owners. She has grown an engaged and enthusiastic audience of over 50,000 followers, and her clients have been featured in publications such as Buzzfeed, Glitter Guide, Altitude Summit, and Popsugar. Lizzie is passionate about helping creative entrepreneurs build beautiful, impactful brands online and off through brand and website design, social media strategy, and more.
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The Soul of Design: Understanding the Neuroscience of Beauty, Color & Pattern
April 21, 2021 │ Noon CT │ Zoom Webinar Presentation
Overview:
Uplifting clients is at the heart of what designers do. Not only can it be fulfilling, but a space that makes clients feel good, even better, can help your business. Join author of Ode to Color and product designer Lori Weitzner and interior designer Lisa Staprans for a presentation that illustrates how understanding the neuroscience of design and color can help elevate mood, inspire creativity, and strengthen your business.
Attendees are encouraged to take Lori’s online Ode to Color quiz prior to the event: https://www.loriweitzner.com/odetocolor/
In this presentation you will learn:
• How the personal connection to color and pattern can impact everyday lives and wellbeing
• To create spaces that elevate emotional state
• The neuroscience behind design choices that assist in physical and mental health
This presentation will give you actionable ideas to help impact your clients and the designs you create for them.
Speakers:
Lori Weitzner, Principal and Creative Director, Lori Weitzner Design
Lori is internationally known for her contributions to the world of textiles and wallcoverings under the brand Weitzner. She has translated her aesthetic into collaborations with such renowned brands as Sahco, Samuel & Sons Passementerie, Perennials, West Elm, Artistic Tile and Papyrus. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Cooper- Hewitt and Smithsonian Design Museum among others. She is the recipient of more than twenty-five prestigious design awards and often lectures before audiences around the world on engaging the senses and finding inspiration in the world around us, both natural and man-made.
Lisa Staprans, Principal, Staprans Design (San Francisco, CA)
Lisa believes that artistically driven and emotionally connective interiors have the ability to transform one’s entire state of being. Lisa first fell in love with design while studying art history, art and architecture at UC Berkeley. She continued her education at the School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design in New York. Lisa has received awards from AIA for her work on the Portola Valley Town Library, a platinum LEED-certified project, and from ASID for a 3,400 sq. ft. Single Family Home, and for a 5,600 sq. ft. Residential Mountain Retreat project. Lisa is currently working on her first book, The Soul of Design.
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Your Mindset Matters: Create Focus and Increase Productivity
March 18, 2021 │ 11:30am CT │ Zoom Webinar Presentation
Overview:
You know you can’t keep doing things this way. The constant stress of being behind, details slipping through the cracks, and your revenue not reflecting your late nights. You have a bigger vision for your interior design business, but when each day feels like a grind, there’s little time or energy to devote to creating the life and business you truly desire.
Former interior designer, now Certified Life & Business Coach, Desi Creswell has the solution to this common struggle. If you are stuck in the spin of the day-to-day you will not want to miss her upcoming presentation, Your Mindset Matters: Create Focus and Increase Productivity.
Is this presentation you will learn:
Not only will you walk away with actionable next steps, you will have the opportunity to ask Desi your questions live and get the support you need.
Speaker:
Desi Creswell, Certified Life and Business Coach
Desi Creswell is a Certified Life and Business Coach who helps interior designers intentionally achieve success with more freedom and fulfillment. An awarding-winning interior designer who has worked for world-renowned design and architecture firms prior to establishing her own design practice, Desi is uniquely equipped to empower her clients with an essential blend of industry specific expertise and mindset coaching. Her passion is to help designers build thriving businesses that enrich and support their lives as a whole. Desi is a co-author in LuAnn Nigara’s forthcoming book A Well Designed Business, Power Talk Friday Experts: Volume 2.
Pattern on Pattern: Mix Match & Go Mad 
Join Schuyler Samperton & Shelley Johnstone as they launch Swatch What Happens: IG LIVE and chat about how they create richly layered rooms with Patterns on Patterns.
View their conversation HERE.
About Swatch What Happens: IG LIVE
A series of engaging conversations bringing together the best in design from across the country to talk about what’s inspiring them now. Follow @designcentermart to be notified of the latest Design Center at theMART IG series and listen in to casual chats that are both entertaining and enlightening.