Interior Design (including foundation year) (Hons) London Metropolitan University

Overview

This Interior Design (including foundation year) (Hons) course from London Metropolitan University has a built-in foundation year that is both preparatory and diagnostic, meaning they’ll help you discover your strengths, find areas of improvement and prepare you for the subsequent three years of study.

Quick Facts:

• The Interior Design (including foundation year) (Hons) course at London Metropolitan University involves an exciting range of projects in the cultural, social and commercial fields that will prepare you for a successful career in interior design.
• The foundation year will prepare you for academic study by equipping you with skills such as essay writing, reading, research and critical analysis. You’ll also be introduced to working in studios and workshops, while completing intensive short-term projects. These will be followed by interpretive and longer projects, which aim to give you a sense of direction and a personal perspective on interior design, as well as on the broader art and design field.

Career opportunities:

• This course will prepare you to work with confidence as a specialist in a design or architectural practice. On entering the workplace you will find your role requires a range of skills and experience beyond the purely creative. The collaborative nature of the projects you’ll complete whilst studying are ideal for preparing you for interacting with other professionals and performing construction industry processes. 
• Recent graduates have been employed by design companies including Gensler, BDP, Turner Bates, Black Sheep, Fitch, AI Architects, Woods Bagot, Foster and Partners, Seen Displays, Areen, My Beautiful City and Avante Garde.

They also have graduates who have chosen to work for set designers, interior design magazines and in museum and gallery curation.

Others have chosen to continue onto postgraduate study. Graduates of this course are well-suited to pursuing further studies in interior design, sustainable design, architecture and environmental design and strategic brand management at postgraduate level. They have a variety of suitable courses at London Met, such as:

• Interior Design MA
• Environmental, Sustainable and Regeneration Design MA
• Architectural History, Research and Writing MA
• Public Art and Performance MA

Every student who studies on one of their three interiors courses has the opportunity of a work placement at a leading London design practice. They place our students in the top 150 interior and architectural practices in London including Penson, Gensler, turnerbates, Fitch and WeAreYourStudio.