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As in any profession or industry Designers and Interior Design Companies come in all manner of types, sizes and experience. From an individual designer working on his own to a major design organisation and all the many shapes and sizes between, the selection of which one to use must start with the nature of the project that the client wishes to use a designer on. Every project is unique in it's own right and needs to be matched to a designer that is going to give you the best results.
An experienced designer is a very flexible and adaptable individual that has been trained in a very special way. Although we all see the designers work as visual result from a project brief there is a train of thought that has allowed this to happen. A designer is trained to think and to resolve problems first and their level of experience will allow them to conclude this in a visual way to produce a successful interpretation of the project brief.
For example, if you have a project, lets say - a Health Spar, but it could be a Book Shop or a Car Showroom or your Bedroom - you will probably be looking around for designers who have carried out very similar projects in the past and have lots of them to show in their portfolio. This is not necessarily the best way to find a designer for your project brief, be opened minded, a good designer should be able to apply themselves to any project even if they can not directly demonstrate they have carried out exactly the project you have in mind. The design process allows designers specialising in interior design to work across a wide expanse of different project types and you should be looking at their overall ability rather than a specific to your project.
In looking for a design company you will no doubt come across term "multi-disciplined", this will mean that they will not just specialise in a single area of design, but will offer and have experience across a number of different sectors of the design market. This is a consideration that may be relevant to your project - going back to the example of the Health Spar, in addition to Interior Design you may need Graphics, so a design company that offer both would give you a joined-up solution.
One thing to clear-up, the term "Interior Designer" these days means more than Interiors. Most Interior Design companies undertake projects that cover the Total Project, which could entail exterior work, architectural building works, lighting design and services, project management etc, and if they have in-house Graphics may well cover Corporate Identity and Branding.
Most projects fall generally into Five main design groups which are then have sub categories, this could be expanded, but as a simple list these are:
There are other groups of design, and they are not deliberately excluded, but these tend to be extremely specialised and do not full within our example i.e.; Product Design, Packaging Design, Furniture Design. The true multi-disciplined design company will have developed it studio in such a way that there is cross fertilisation between the disciplines combining 3D and 2D together to give a complete design identity to any project.