Arts University Plymouth
UCAS Code: 5LWB | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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Although many of our students do come in with top grades and high UCAS points, these aren’t necessarily essential for entry. We typically ask for a minimum of 104 UCAS points, but we understand that talented artists, designers and makers can have a wide range of relevant strengths and skills beyond formal qualifications. We’re just as interested in exploring your portfolio as we are in seeing your grades.
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About this course
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This course has been devised to develop your skills in interior design and styling, emphasising the impact of colour, texture, materials, surface, and ambience in a range of environments. We will ensure you enter industry as a well-rounded interiors specialist, ready to work on projects from super yachts to magazine photoshoots.
**Why Choose This Course?**
Our **BA (Hons) Interior Design & Styling** degree generates inspired graduates, who are both visually intelligent and well acquainted with technical drawing packages. Cutting across a range of interior disciplines, here you’ll gain a great introduction to designing interiors for a variety of environments – from residential and commercial spaces to the public realm and even transport.
Your studies will place special emphasis on trends, colour, materiality, sustainability, and accessibility in a range of interior contexts, both public and private. You’ll develop your own distinct taste in style curation, exploring lighting, furnishing, materiality and textural finishes to make your design concepts a reality.
**Craft Your Interior Design Specialism**
Through a variety of projects, you'll find your own interior specialism, which could range from hospitality design or styling for editorial to designing yachts or aeroplanes. You’ll also develop a keen understanding of consumer trends and learn how to design for different levels of the market, whilst refining your presentation skills. Specialist modules cover interior project management, history of design, event planning, and live design briefs. Hard skills that you will develop include technical drawing, visualisation, editorial photography, and use of CAD software.
You will work within dedicated design studios, with skilled technical support staff. You will have access to our Fab Lab for digital prototyping, as well as wood, metal and glass workshops, digital print facilities, AutoCAD design software and design intelligence facilities. Our extensive photographic resources include large-format scanners as well as an infinity cove - a seamless curved studio with solid backdrop for commercial-standard photography.
**Gain Real-World Experience and Industry Exposure**
You’ll be taught by industry-active academics and specialist technicians who are responsible for some of the world’s most impressive design and styling choices in hotels, restaurants and private residences. Boasting a combined client list including the National Trust, the BBC, Royal Caribbean Cruises and Sheraton, as well as multi million-pound commissions in New York and Barbados, our team are well connected and at the forefront of their field.
This course places a high value on both local and international industry connections, encouraging students to attend – alongside group visits to interior shows such as Maison&Objet in Paris and IMM Cologne in Germany.
**Professional Practice, Career Opportunities, and Skills Development**
Throughout your studies, you'll develop key transferable skills essential for employability in the creative industries. You'll have opportunities to collaborate with local, regional, national, and international sectors. Aspiring Interior Design and Styling professionals engage directly with industry through our Industry Liaison Groups. Visits to events like Decorex and Chelsea Harbour, both locally and in Europe, expand your network and exposure to leading brands and agencies.
Our faculty brings extensive interiors experience, covering design and decoration for major hotel chains, shop fittings, and private accommodations. Our strong international connections enable students to study abroad for a semester at one of our partner institutions in Europe and North America.
Graduates become: Interior & Spatial Designers, Interior Product Designers & Makers, Set Designers, Exhibition Designers, Product Stylists, Trend Forecasters, Retail Buyers/Merchandisers, Magazine Stylists, Interior Decorators, Freelance artists and designers.
Modules
Through this programme, you’ll learn how to develop ideas and present them to clients. You will develop products, including upholstery, accessories and furniture, and gain smart manufacturing skills through the use of 3D and digital equipment in our FabLab.
The programme includes projects around design for hard and soft surfaces; we also cover the history of interiors and there will be elements of design styling using photography, for editorial.
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