Interior Design (BA Hons - Single)

Overview

Interior Design is an exciting and multidisciplinary practice involving a broad range of projects such public, retail, workspace and leisure. We provide you with an industry-led production community, helping you become a successful and inventive interior designer.
We provide you with both community and commercial projects & partnerships; encouraging a sense of empathy for clients and users, their needs and motivation. Students will also take design responsibility for how cultural and commercial philosophies function within their practice.
Ideas are explored using both traditional drawing methods and interactive graphic packages and developed through colour, lighting and materials. Students also experiment with cutting edge modelmaking techniques.
The teaching team includes professional interior designers and architects. The Faculty is bustling with creativity and energy with students using both state-of-the-art digital & high-end traditional workshops to develop their practice. The course is taught in the heart of London’s creative district with future employers and commissioning agencies on your doorstop.
Students on the course benefit from unique opportunities to collaborate across Design (including furniture & textiles) and Architecture.

Architecture and Spacial Design

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Course contents

Three levels, each of 120 credits

Moving through research and analysis, you will create spatial solutions through sketching and modelling. CAD, 3D studio max and Photoshop are taught throughout the course

Level 1 topics include:

• Interior Visualisation
• Orthographic Drawing
• Modelling Concepts
• Cultural Studies

Level 2 topics include:

• Colour in Interiors
• The Practice of Interior Design
• Concepts Developed in Detail
• Cultural Studies & Professional Practice

Level 3 topics include:

• Major Project
• Professional Practice
• Placement
• Dissertation/ Report

Assessment

You are assessed via project work, essays, individual and group design practice and a final major project & dissertation.

Careers

Our students emerge from the course, confident in their abilities to go forward into commercial practice. Graduates have found work as Interior Designers, Operational Space Team Analysts, Retail Design and Planners and Property Managers. They have also moved into TV and film set design, lighting, journalism, postgraduate study and teaching. The programme is also excellent preparation for further research or study.

Professional accreditation / exemption

The Interior Design BA(Hons) course ensures all students work alongside and interact with the industry. Its London location allows for an abundance of live projects and industry mentors that support the students throughout.

Collaborative and international links

Students actively participate in notable Industry focussed competitions and have achieved high levels of National success such as Formica, V&A, Great British Emerging Interior Designer. The Design world readily recruits from our students and takes on enthusiastic individuals who have character and determination.

Student profiles

“I chose London Met because it was one of the few Universities with a good interior design course…The course itself requires a lot more work and effort than I initially expected, but the support from the tutors is excellent. What I enjoy most about the course is that we work to tight briefs and we learn how to channel our creativity while working with restrictions. ??The Formica project … was one of the most challenging projects I have done at the University …??Winning the competition was a great surprise and I could not be happier because all the effort I put into this project has paid off and I have made my tutors proud.”

Lilyana Piskunova, 2007

Applying and entry

Sept full-time: apply through UCAS

Sept part-time: apply direct to the University - contact Admissions for an application form.

Entry requirements

280 UCAS POINTS including at least 2 A Levels in Applied art and design subjects or BTEC National Diploma or BTEC Foundation Diploma, or new diploma including A level specialist subjects in applied art and design.

Further information

Please contact the Admissions Office:
Tel: +44(0)20 7133 4200
Fax: +44(0)20 7133 2677
Email: admissions@londonmet.ac.uk

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