WK SCHOOL

Length: 1 year (3 terms)

This intensive, career – orientated course is unique to WK School and is created for students seeking a profession in interior design. You will be taught the most up-to-date professional knowledge and skills by practicing interior designers, encouraged and guided on aspects of personal and creative development as well as career development, including starting a business. On graduation you will have a comprehensive portfolio, the confidence to become a successful interior designer and your thinking and creative vision will have expanded – this course is so more than a conventional qualification in Interior Design.

Course Outline

Alongside conventional modules, crucial for succeeding in the industry – you will see we offer additional topics covering creative and personal development, which are not usually included in other design schools’ curriculum.

• Unravelling and enhancing your creative potential: introduction to a creative practice.
• Introduction to the profession of an interior designer
• Architecture and decoration
• History and Theory of Design
• History and Theory of Styles: classical styles, Modernism and Post-Modernism, modern styles and tendencies.
• All aspects of technical drawing for designers, sketching and drawing
• CAD
• Technical features of an interior, fixtures, appliances and integrated technology
• Textiles and window treatments
• Furniture
• Finishing materials
• Ergonomics, anthropometrics, spatial planning.
• Building regulations
• Planning, professional presentation.
• Commercial Interior Design (+ training project)
• Residential interior design (+ Diploma Project)
• Project presentation, exhibition.