Designer Living: A Look into Interior Design Degrees and Jobs
By Karin Evans
Interior Design School Review Columnist
A degree in interior design is your first step to an exciting, dynamic career.
A career in interior design is all about combining form and function to create a space that is both functional and attractive. To succeed in interior design, you'll need a good eye for design, for shape, color and the way they interact to create a finished whole.
You'll need to be creative, and innovative, and be comfortable with new technology. You'll also need to be a good communicator and have the ability to maintain a vision of the end result while focusing on the details that bring it to life.These are the basics that your interior design course will build upon.
A Degree in Interior Design
A degree in interior design will give you the technical knowledge and industry-specific know-how you'll need to turn your creative ideas into practical outcomes. An interior design program will teach you the basic skills you'll need such as drawing, perspective, color, proportion and computer-aided design.
You'll learn how to use furniture, accessories and color to transform residential and commercial spaces in a way that meets the criteria of your client. Importantly, you'll also learn how to ensure that your designs accord with the relevant legal and accessibility requirements.
Computer aided design is revolutionizing design. An interior design course will teach you to use the latest design software to create, examine and compare different designs for the project that you're working on.
Jobs in Interior Design
Anywhere that people live, work, or play has been designed to greater or lesser extent. Private homes, public buildings, shops, schools, hospitals, and offices - all of these are places in which space, decoration, color and furnishings have been used to create something that is functional, suitable for its purpose, and attractive. That's the job of an interior designer.
Many interior designers specialize, either in a particular type of design such as restaurants or offices, or on a particular room such as bathrooms or kitchens.
About the Author
Karin Evans works for a government agency researching and writing reports to inform policy. Her previous experience includes teaching, editing, and sales and marketing - all in the field of English Literature and Language. Karin has graduate and doctoral degrees in English Language and Literature with a concentration in cultural studies.
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