Interior Design (Hons) London Metropolitan University

Overview

This Interior Design (Hons) programme from London Metropolitan University is an exhilarating practice responding to the rapid pace of the interiors industry. It involves an exciting range of projects embracing commercial, social and temporary projects such as workspaces, hotels, retail, museums, exhibitions, and health and educational spaces. 

Quick Facts:

• Your first year  – through an active and holistic learning and teaching programme – is designed to develop your thinking, key skills and understanding of the industry and related practice, allowing you to produce a portfolio and discover your career aspirations through explorative approaches. 
• You’ll explore sketching, drawing, sketch-modelling and the production of scaled accurate models through workshop practice and orthographic techniques, with digital software also used to strengthen your ideas and skills. This will guide you into your second year where we ask you to choose a studio in which to cultivate your design philosophy, sector specialisms and professional skills. 
• Their studios are run by practitioners and experts in their field who develop a series of year-long projects covering contemporary and relevant design issues and topics. They work with well-known businesses, associations, and museums and galleries running live projects. This gives you the opportunity to discuss and exhibit your projects, which in turn helps you to develop a range of professional presentational skills.

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. 
• Their design graduates have gone on to exciting careers as assistant designers, junior graphic designers, interior designers, lighting designers and web and UX designers at companies such as Areen Design, BDP, Kelly Hoppen Interiors, Horae Lea and Sky TV and Red Giraffe Marketing.

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 Regenerative 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. We place our students in the top 150 interior and architectural practices in London including Penson, Gensler, turnerbates, Fitch and WeAreYourStudio.