Interior Design [with Foundation Year]

**Interior designers work with clients to create attractive, safe and functional rooms and spaces. Study BA (Hons) Interior Design at ARU in Cambridge, and develop your creative vision.**<br/><br/>As an interior designer you might work with homeowners, public bodies and businesses. Youll consider the use of furniture, lighting, flooring, artwork and decoration, decor and colour pallettes to create residential or commercial spaces that people enjoy using.<br/><br/>To become a professional interior designer youll typically need a university degree in interior design or a related subject. Practical experience is also valuable and here at ARU, youll receive ongoing support to find placements and work experience.<br/><br/>With our small studio groups, your tutors will really get to know you and your work, and help you become a resilient interior designer with a distinctive creative voice.<br/><br/>Our BA (Hons) Interior Design scored 95% for Academic Support and 93% for Teaching on my Course in the National Student Survey 2023.<br/><br/>Exciting and intriguing interior spaces offer experiences that make us want to return again and again. Discover how you can embed stories into your designs – stories that help others to develop social connections and make your designed spaces important to the community.<br/><br/>By studying BA (Hons) Interior Design at ARU, you’ll explore the relationships between design, experience and narrative.<br/><br/>Based in our dedicated interior design studio in Cambridge, youll learn to create effective design proposals. Your studio work will include:<br/>- preparing 2D plans and elevations<br/><br/><br/>- developing fully realised 3D drawings<br/><br/><br/>- creating built models<br/><br/><br/>- considering the use of furniture, lighting and materials<br/><br/><br/>- looking at small- and large-scale interior design projects.<br/><br/><br/>Youll also learn about project management, professional communication, budgeting, and specification skills.<br/><br/>Throughout the course, you’ll be encouraged to propose design questions, such as: How can public spaces cater for multiple activities and users? How much space do we need to live in? How do major brands reinvent themselves to respond to new markets?<br/><br/>We think your ideas and design skills are important. You’ll develop these by working in small teams at different stages of your degree, sometimes alongside students from other creative courses.<br/><br/>There’s the opportunity to get inspired on European field trips, and to study abroad for a semester – with funding available to help cover the cost.<br/><br/>You can also see your designs become reality in live projects briefs with our partner organisations - our students recently worked with Cambridge Library Services to re-design the café interior at Cambridge Central Library - and foster professional relationships through Design Bench, a series of industry networking meetings.<br/><br/>**Industry-standard facilities**<br/>As well as our dedicated interior design studio, you’ll have use of all our creative facilities including:<br/>- 3D workshops for physical media including wood, plastic, metal and clay<br/><br/><br/>- specialist printmaking workshop<br/><br/><br/>- dedicated Mac and PC suites with the latest software including Adobe Creative suite<br/><br/><br/>- Ruskin Gallery, a professional digital art gallery<br/><br/><br/>- photography and media facilities including darkrooms; studios; film processing; digital printing suite; video editing; and professional equipment loans<br/><br/><br/>- life drawing studio.<br/><br/><br/>**Careers**<br/>Our BA (Hons) Interior Design degree will prepare you to work with architects or in spatial design practices on residential, commercial, hospitality, health, lighting, entertainment or furniture design projects, or to set up your own interior design practice after graduation. The creative skills you develop will help you find a career in the visual arts, film, television, event and theatre design, or exhibition and museum design; while the management skills will be useful for project management roles on creative projects.