About Us
The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) is the largest professional organization for interior designers representing all facets of both residential and commercial design. With more than 30,000 members nationally, ASID establishes a common identity for professionals and businesses in the field of interior design. The ASID Colorado Chapter is proud to represent more than 500 local ASID members.
Of the national society’s 20,000 practicing interior designers, 6,500 practice primarily in the commercial field with 4,000 practicing primarily as residential designers. The remaining 9,500 work in both commercial and residential design.
ASID’s national Industry Partners include more than 3,500 member firms and individual representatives, uniting the professional designer with manufacturers of design-related products and services. The Colorado Chapter includes nearly 100 Industry Partners. ASID’s membership also includes 7,500 students of interior design.
The association has 48 chapters throughout the United States and more than 450 international members. ASID was founded in 1975 with the consolidation of the American Institute of Decorators (AID) and the National Society of Interior Designers (NSID).
Professional members of ASID must pass rigorous acceptance standards which includes a combination of accredited design education and/or full-time work experience, and passing of a two-day accreditation examination (National Council for Interior Design Qualification – NCIDQ).
ASID promotes professionalism in interior design services and products for the workplace and home. To keep up with the unique needs of its members, ASID conducts independent research on topics related to the practice and business of the profession. ASID designers receive the most current information about appropriate materials, technology, building codes, government regulations, flammability standards, design psychology and product performance.
Colorado Chapter Mission Statement
The Colorado Chapter of ASID strives to be the definitive resource for professional education and knowledge sharing, advocacy of interior designers’ right-to-practice, and expansion of interior design markets.
Our Vision:
ASID is an organization that:
- Identifies interior designers by the results and benefits they bring to the built environment through their specialized design skills and sound business practices.
- Is to be vital to the success of the interior design community, its partners and customers through shared knowledge and collective action.
- To give interior designers the strategic tools to impact behavior and perform beyond customer expectations.
- Is the catalyst for understanding and managing the changing working and living environments.
Our Program Goals:
- Provide members, partners and customers with easily accessible and relevant knowledge about the interior environment and interior design practice.
- Ensure interior designers’ right-to-practice to the full extent of their capabilities.
- Increase interior designers’ practice skills through professional education.
- Expand markets for interior designers.
Our Management Goals:
- Provide the human and financial resources necessary to carry out the strategic plan.
- Structure ASID to efficiently and effectively meet member needs
ASID Values Statement
Members
- We are responsible first to our members.
- We aspire to the highest standards of professional excellence.
- We strive to inform and educate our members by providing knowledge, programs, and services that enable them to excel.
- We strive to grow and expand the value of membership by listening and responding to our members and partners.
- We respect the full range of diversity within the interior design community.
Leadership
- We advance the Society and the profession through our mission, vision and values.
- We seek to partner with those who respect our mission, vision and values.
- We ground our actions in an informed, inclusive, and strategic decision-making process.
- We strive to be ethical, fair and just in all our actions and decisions.
Stewardship
- We are conscientious stewards of the Society’s resources, whether human, financial, intellectual or physical.
- We garner resources for the purpose of providing programs, products and services to the interior design community and the communities it serves
