Designing Under the Influence: The Influence of Media on Design
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Learn how to avoid chasing trends and develop authentic spaces that meet people’s needs, engage their senses, and tap into their emotions.
Continuing Education Approval
- 0.5 IDCEC CEU | CC-118165 (Your CEU will be reported to IDCEC on your behalf)
- IDCEC approval will expire on February 28, 2025. Please ensure that you have completed the course by that date.
Description
Explore the influence of media in design, focusing on aesthetics, globalization and personalization. You will walk away with critical criteria to evaluate design and filter out unnecessary influences. Authentic design is influence-agnostic, creating memorable, iconic spaces rooted in the client’s core values. Focus on the fundamental design pillars of scale and proportion, shape and form, flow, contrast, texture, and color, avoiding uniformity and adhering to a more rigorous approach in your design process.
Content developed as part of the ASID Ones to Watch Scholars Leadership Development Program, supported by Steelcase, Benjamin Moore, Wilsonart, Loloi. Learn more about ASID Ones to Watch.
What You Will Learn
- Recognize when you are “chasing trends” in your design process.
- Utilize criteria to evaluate design and filter out unnecessary influences.
- Counter the influence of globalization which leads to mimicry and uniformity.
- Identify the six pillars of design and strategies to implement them in your projects.
Access Period: One year after registration.

Mike Goetz, ASID, AIA, IIDA
Principal | Director of Design, Interiors
HOK
Mike Goetz is the Director of Design, Interiors, in HOK’s Los Angeles studio. He guides design teams in the creation and development of a project’s overall design concept. He excels at creating highly functional and efficient environments that are unique, inspirational, and colorful. As a design thought leader, Mike has collaborated on many notable workplace, hospitality, and higher education projects. The American Society of Interior Designers named Mike in its “Ones to Watch” awards recognizing rising leaders in interior design. The International Interior Design Association also recognized Mike as an emerging leader in its 2022 Perspective: State of Being awards. He has been published in multiple publications, including Interior Design magazine, and has participated in panel discussions about workplace design and employee engagement.

This CEU is registered with the International Design Continuing Education Council (IDCEC) for continuing education credits. This credit will be accepted by the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), International Interior Designers Association (IIDA) and Interior Designers of Canada (IDC).
The content included is not deemed or construed to be an approval or endorsement by IDCEC of any material or construction or any method or manner of handling, using distributing or dealing in any material or product.
Questions related to specific materials, methods and services should be directed to the instructor and provider of the CEU.
This program is registered for 0.5 CEU value. The IDCEC class-code is: CC-118165.
Attendees who do not belong to ASID, IIDA or IDC and do not have a unique IDCEC number will be provided with a Certificate of Completion after this CEU.
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