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Commercial Interior Design
This pathway prepares you to take on the world as a creative interior designer. Commercial interior designers work on cafes, bars, hotels, restaurants, exhibitions, and workspaces to name a few. They may also design interiors for game designs, virtual worlds and animations. Find out about branding, lighting and sustainability, brand management, design culture, digital worlds, materiality and more.
BILLY BLUE QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor of Applied Design (Commercial Interior)
- Associate Degree of Applied Design (Commercial Interior)
THE WORLD OF COMMERCIAL INTERIORS
Commercial interior design is about designing and developing unique and immersive interiors for commercial environments, from hotels, bars, restaurants and workspaces to the interiors of animation/film and game design.
This course provides you with the necessary skills to create state-of-the art commercial interiors – in both the physical and digital world. Digital technology is a strong focus of this course - how it represents spatial environments, and communicates information relevant to designing, costing, evaluating, and constructing commercial interiors.
You study the fundamental areas of commercial interiors – branding, lighting, sustainability and materiality – and grasp the practicalities of designing inspiring commercial environments. You will discover how commercial interior design strategies are assessed and explore how commercial interiors can engage an audience. You will make commercial environments a reality through documentation, contract management, professional design practice and cross-disciplinary interaction. You will also have the opportunity to apply theory to practice by creating a range of commercial interior design solutions for real clients.
DESIGN A COMMERCIAL INTERIOR CAREER
As a Commercial Interior Designer, you may work in architectural or interior design practices designing everything from cafes, hotels, restaurants to exhibitions and corporate environments. You could also work in industry designing the interiors of games, virtual worlds and animations.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- Design Culture and Theory
- Ideas Generation in Visual Communication
- Systems of Communication
- Design Practice
- Frameworks of Design
- History of Commercial Interiors
- Systems of Communication
- Digital Worlds
- Design Research
- Scheduling Interiors
- Environment Planning and Visualisation
- Environment Design
- Interactive Spaces
- Brand Management
- Systems and Documentation
- Design in Practice
COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How does commercial interior differ from other interior design degrees?
Commercial interior design is still an interior design degree – however it allows you to specialise in ‘your’ area of interest. Instead of studying residential, commercial, public and institutional interiors, you focus on the issues and skills relevant to commercial interior design over 3 years.
What does a Commercial Interior Designer do?
They design and create a range of interior environments relevant to the commercial endeavour e.g. retail and exhibition spaces, cafés, restaurants, nightclubs, hotel design, and corporate/work environments. Interior design is becoming a more important part of commerce played out in digital environments, so you could also be involved in the design of digital commercial environments.
Why study commercial interior at Billy Blue?
The commercial interior is a thriving industry, and this is a unique opportunity to learn from a highly-passionate and educated team of designers that live, breathe – and work in – commercial interiors. Rather than studying residential, commercial, public and institutional interiors all together, we focus on allowing you to specialise and concentrate on the design issues and skills that are really relevant to your commercial interiors career.
