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Give your career a new design
Melbourne Polytechnic’s Diploma of Interior Design MSF50218 can let you turn your eye for interiors into a stylish and rewarding career. Designing and decorating a space is essential in this age of social media shares and mass production hacks, and the interior design industry is growing rapidly. Job opportunities in interior design have almost doubled since 2014. If you have an eye for detail and a taste for trends, you could use this qualification to establish your own interior design business or provide design consulting for high-end commercial and domestic clients.
Apply your eye for trends to real world challenges
You’ll learn the core principles and techniques needed to start your career in interior design, including how to research and use CAD design, analyse and apply colour, visual design practice and media techniques. Melbourne Polytechnic’s Diploma of Interior Design MSF50218 students have the opportunity for large design and decorating projects, as well as units of real interior design consultancy for real clients. You’ll be taught by our qualified and experienced design teachers, who have consulted with a variety of excellent industry contacts and affiliations, including the Design Institute of Australia, Design Matters (BDAV) and a range of retailers, designers and decorators, ensuring that everything you learn is timeless or on trend. Melbourne Polytechnic provides their interior design students with real world experience before they graduate, including the opportunity for internships with our industry partners and associates, student-run stalls at the Melbourne Home Show and annual interior design competitions, so you can enter the industry job ready with an active portfolio.
Turn your creativity into your calling
Interior design qualifications can lead to an exciting range of careers in commercial and domestic settings. Aside from running your own interior design consultancy or business, you might become a colour, furnishing or lighting consultant, an interior stylist, a decoration consultant or even move into the world of sales or assisting architects.
CAREER PATHWAYS
Where will the Diploma of Interior Design MSF50218 take me?
Interior decoration is a qualification that creates an exciting range of careers in many settings.
- Interior Design Consultant
- Retail Consultant
- Interior Stylist
- Interior Designer
- Interior Decorator
Units of Study
The hours displayed are nominal, actual classroom hours delivered may differ. Please contact us for the latest student contact hours information.
Units of Study
- Explore and apply the creative design process to 2D forms
- Explore and apply the creative design process to 3D forms
- Establish, negotiate and refine a design brief
- Establish operational strategies and procedures for new business ventures
- Produce drawings to communicate ideas
- Produce computer-aided drawings
- Produce technical drawings
- Produce and prepare photo images
- Research and meet ethical and compliance requirements
- Decorate residential interiors
- Design residential interior lighting
- Produce digital models and documentation for interior design projects
- Prepare materials and finishes boards for client presentation
- Design colour schemes for interior and exterior
- Research and recommend furniture and accessories
- Research and recommend hard materials and finishes for interiors
- Research interior decoration and design influences
- Design soft furnishing solutions for interior spaces
- Develop decoration proposals for complex sites
- Design residential interiors
- Evaluate site structure and services for interior design
- Explore and apply creative design methodology to interior space
- Design for all ages and abilities
- Design workplace interiors
- Develop residential interior design project documentation
- Research and recommend artworkPresent architectural designs
