Course Structure
Three Stages, Four Fundamentals
The course moves through three design stages. Each stage builds on the last and ends with a submission and written feedback.
What is it? What will I learn? How will it benefit me? Three stages and four Interior Design Fundamentals - your first big steps to thinking and working like an Interior Designer.
The course moves through three design stages. Each stage builds on the last and ends with a submission and written feedback.
Design Language is the creation of an appropriate mood and atmosphere that relates to the Client’s unique identity and particular needs. Interior Design Evolution has a simple definition:
The Concept Design Stage it is all about generating Design Ideas. You will begin with learning how to investigate your Client’s unique identity and particular needs. This will allows you to gather a range of materials, colours, textures, furniture, objects, lighting, etc. to create a coherent Moodboard with an appropriate look, style and mood. A key question is always, ‘How Does It Make Me Feel?’, so Design Language focuses on generating appropriate Design Ideas that will allow your Client to flourish in their new interior habitat.
Creating a successful, project-specific Design Language is Interior Design Fundamental #1, this is your first big step to thinking and working like an Interior Designer. The knowledge to produce a clear Design Language allows Interior Designers to translate Client identity and needs into a coherent mood, atmosphere and spatial expression that lays the foundations that effectively guides every decision that follows.
Design Strategy is the where your Design Ideas merge with the realities of the specific place that will ‘host’ your proposed design. Interior Design Evolution has a simple definition:
You will begin with learning how to rigorously analysis the main features and characteristics of the Host Building and Site: light, views, materials, surfaces, character, etc. You will build on, and test, the Design Ideas you established in Design Language by learning how to: translate the Client’s needs into coherent, spatial diagrams; create accurate planned arrangements of the activities, functions and spaces; and explore three-dimensional opportunities with quick and messy physical models that further explore the key question of, ‘How Does It Make Me Feel?’.
Creating a successful, project-specific Design Strategy is Interior Design Fundamental #2, this is your second big step to thinking and working like an Interior Designer. The knowledge to produce a clear Design Strategy allows Interior Designers to read existing buildings to appropriately remodel them by embedding a set of new, coherent Client-focused Design Ideas into their fabric. A clearly communicated Design Strategy allows Clients, or tutors, to understand your process and logic, this builds trust and will also look great in your Portfolio.
Objects, Space, Experience is the core skillset of an Interior Designer, it is where you develop your Design Ideas into a scaled, technically drawn design proposal with an appropriate mood and atmosphere. Interior Design Evolution has a simple definition:
The Scheme Design Stage it is all about developing your Design Ideas. You will learn how to master how objects come together in light to create space, and how that space makes us feel something (physiologically and psychologically). Again, by focusing on ‘How Does It Make Me Feel?’, you will learn to adjust each object and each spaces materiality (surfaces, colour, texture, etc.) to develop and hone a desired mood and atmosphere, and then test this through scaled technical drawings and models will allow your to create accurate and ultimately buildable design proposals.
Utilising Objects, Space, Experience to create appropriate places for experience is Interior Design Fundamental #3, this is your third big step to thinking and working like an Interior Designer. The knowledge of how to develop a place with a particular mood and atmosphere, and accurately deliver a scaleable design proposal, is at the core of what professional Interior Designers do to design experiences for the any space, function and activity (live, work, rest, play, interact, etc.) that we inhabit.
Visual Language is concerned with the creation of a final Design Document that reflects the Design Language, Design Strategy and Object Space Experience of your project. Interior Design Evolution has a simple definition:
The Communication Design Stage it is all about communicating all your Design Ideas. You will learn how to produce finalised design information (project description, diagrams, scaled technical drawings, 3D visuals and spatial physical models) that are consistent with the Client’s specific brand, identity, look and style. You will learn how to bring all this design information together onto a series of pages to produce a Design Document that visually communicates all the physical and psychological aspects of your final project. Each Design Document page will consider: Template; Layout; Graphics; Fonts; Colours; etc.
Creating a successful, project-specific Visual Language is Interior Design Fundamental #4, this is your fourth big step to thinking and working like an Interior Designer. The knowledge of producing a clear Visual Language allows Interior Designers to bring all the project information together into a clear, graphically arranged final Design Document. Your Design Document will form a big part of your Design Portfolio so you showcasing the skills that Clients, Employers, Tutors and Contractors trust and respect.
Both options include the same full course. Mentored adds weekly 1:1 calls and tutorials with Dr Craig, every week until you complete it.
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