Designing Your Business, 2nd Edition, transforms aspiring interior designers into savvy business people as well as creative interior designers by offering strategies for working effectively with colleagues, clients, and resources. The text explores business organization, legal and ethical issues, and business finance and accounting practices common to the profession. The practical approach and engaging interactive pedagogy make it easy and interesting to learn the intricacies of the business, law, and practice.

Fashion Brand Merchandising introduces the concepts and practices that will help students build, develop, and work with fashion brands, Beginning with an overview of the branding concept and a description of those professionals and processes that develop the brand image and the actual products identified with that image, this text covers how branding and merchandising activities are interrelated and interdependent with respect to marketing fashion-related products. In whatever capacity, you work with fashion brands - marketer, merchandiser, retailer, or designer - this text includes information you will need to work meaningfully with fashion brands. Features -- Focus on Fashion Brands feature an article or case study relevant to the topics of the specific chapters -- Brand Managers Notebook - exercises designed to assist development of your career -- BRANDLAB provides an opportunity to create a fashion brand -- Instructor's Guide provides suggestions for planning the course and using the text -- Powerpoint presentation