ABOUT THE COURSE
With award winning graduates, and a teaching team of expert industry professionals, this industry-focused, creative degree will help provide you with the design skills and hands-on experience to start your career at the cutting edge of design.
BA (Hons) Interior Design Decoration scored 100% overall satisfaction for NSS 2019.
Whether you're interested in interior design, surface decoration, textiles or interior styling, Solent University’s interior design decoration programme will help you to improve your practical skills and begin a unique career in this exciting creative industry. With an expert teaching team and a strong emphasis on the decorative elements of the interior and lifestyle industry, you’ll gain the practical experience and support required to create a professional portfolio and get your career off to the ideal start.
The course places a strong emphasis on gaining hands-on experience and students are encouraged to work on industry-led projects. Through the course team’s strong industry links, past students have had the opportunity to gain self-directed work experience in both commercial and domestic design-led environments.
Students on the interior design decoration course enjoy free access to specialist equipment and facilities. These include a digital fabric printer, digital laser cutter and industry-standard photographic studios. Students will also have access to large format scanners, printing equipment and Apple Mac computers loaded with Vectorworks, Google SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suite and a range of other software packages.
Past students have also exhibited their work at important interior design events including New Designers in London. This has provided them with opportunities to meet employers and network with their industry colleagues.
YOUR FUTURE
This degree will equip you for a career in the spatial design of the interior; its representation through editorial styling and photographic practice; the specification of materials and textiles; trendsetting; surface design; interior home-staging and styling for interior spaces.
Suitable roles for graduates include:
- Interior designer
- Colour consultant
- Magazine and editorial styling
- Interior stylist
- Creative designer
- Visual merchandising
- Show home consultant
- Textile and surface designer
- Kitchen designer.
INDUSTRY LINKS
The course has an excellent guest speaker programme, and industry guest critics have also provided live briefs, student feedback and advice on current professional practice.
The staff team has strong links with industry and have previously partnered with national and international brands to offer students live projects. These include The Clothes Show, The Mayflower Theatre, IKEA, the Joiners (music venue), Hampshire Kitchens, Bulthaup, Linden Show Homes and Blendworth interiors.
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