Herzing Blog

Updated December 2025

Effective interior design is all about creating attractive, human-friendly spaces that also serve functional needs. Successful designers blend creativity with technical precision and balance their own ideas with the specific goals and needs of clients.

Interior designers work with spaces of all shapes and sizes, from factories to condos, luxury homes to restaurants, cruise ships to hotels.

Retail space planning is a popular interior design career within the commercial sector and a key competency taught in design training. In typical interior design programs, students must study commercial design concepts and strategies and produce their own original design project for a commercial space.

What exactly goes into retail space design, and might this be the ideal career path for you after design training? Let's take a look.

Updated December 2025

Interior design careers offer challenges and opportunities across many industries. Have a particular interest in office design?

Want to focus on restaurants or retail spaces? Or perhaps you're passionate about residential design?

There are many niches to explore and chances to develop an expertise in a particular corner of the market. One pathway students often overlook is industrial design.

Updated December 2025

Drafters participate in every stage of the design and construction process. They work closely with architects, engineers, and builders to map out schematics and blueprints—and follow projects throughout construction, ensuring they stay true to the original concept.

While every project is unique, architectural firms typically follow a widely recognized sequence of steps when planning, conceptualizing, and implementing designs.

In this post, we break down these five phases of architectural design and explain the part drafters play at each stage to help bring design concepts to life.

Updated December 2025

If you have an interest in architecture and engineering and like the idea of being part of the building design and planning process, training as a draftsperson could be your ideal career path.

Your first step is to understand the professional role of drafter/designers, get a sense of the most in-demand skills in this field, and of course, find out whether there is demand for CAD technicians in your area.

Read on to learn which core skills matter most for entry-level designers and take a look at the latest government research on demand for this profession in Ontario.

Updated December 2025

If you're considering becoming an interior designer, you're probably a natural at arranging spaces, picking accessories, and styling a room.

You follow interior design trends, textiles, colours, and furniture styles. You know the difference between mid-century modern and Scandinavian minimalist.

But how much do you know about interior design software? Or building codes? Or colour theory?

Interior design is a much more technical field than most people realize.