Billy Blue’s Interior Design courses create the pathway for your career as a commercial interior designer working on hotels, bars, brands and even virtual gaming spaces, or as a residential interior designer who focuses on creating inspiring and sustainable home environments that meet the demands of the 21st Century.
Our interior design courses are industry-driven, giving you in-demand skills for a high-growth industry. Our graduates are hot property in the employment world. Learn from skilled lecturers who work in the industry and make valuable contacts before you even graduate.
Billy Blue offers two degrees in interior design: Bachelor of Interior Design (Commercial) and Bachelor of Interior Design (Residential).
Billy Blue graduates work around the world at the forefront of the residential and commercial interiors industry:
Graduate with a qualification that gives you strong links to industry and is endorsed by those who matter.
As part of their study at Billy Blue, students have commercial and residential interior internships with our industry partners.
*Blended - face to face on campus plus facilitated online
*Blended - face to face on campus plus facilitated online (no more than 25% online)
Full-time: 3 years
Accelerated: 2 years
Part-time: 6 years maximum
This degree gives you the skills and creativity to respond and adapt to the ever-changing drivers of commercial environments such as retail stores and exhibitions, hotels, bars, restaurants, night clubs, workspaces and even the design of online virtual commercial environments.
Throughout your study, you will engage with the theoretical and practical elements of commercial interiors – branding, lighting, sustainability and materiality. You will discover how commercial interior design strategies are developed and 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.
Graduate with the valuable skills to create state-of-the art commercial interiors. Digital technology is a strong focus of this course, as not only will you will engage with contemporary theory, but also learn how to represent spatial environments, and communicate information relevant to designing, costing, evaluating, and constructing commercial interiors using industry standard software. You can also apply for an internship with one of Billy Blue’s industry partners giving you real-world experience, industry contacts and material for your professional portfolio.
*Blended - face to face on campus plus facilitated online
*Blended - face to face on campus plus facilitated online (no more than 25% online)
Full-time: 3 years
Accelerated: 2 years
Part-time: 6 years maximum
Billy Blue’s Residential Interior Design degree creates designers who have the skills and creativity to respond and adapt to the future challenges of sustainable residential design for 21st Century housing, high-rise living, mobile, multi-purpose and adaptive reuse environments.
Throughout your study, you will engage with the theoretical and practical elements of designing residential interiors. You will explore and respond to contemporary issues impacting residential interior design thinking such as our aging population, homelessness, evolving gender roles and definitions of family. You will unpack and understand frontier theory that informs the notion of home in both physical and virtual environments.
As a future-ready interior designer, new technologies and environmentally sustainable practices will be part of your learning. You will understand the impact in the selection of materiality, lighting, joinery, furniture and technology systems such as artificial intelligence robotics and interactive audio visual systems.
You will make residential 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 residential interior design solutions for real clients and can apply for an internship with one of our leading partners as part of your study.
*Blended - face to face on campus plus facilitated online
*Blended - face to face on campus plus facilitated online (no more than 25% online)
Full-time: 1 year (3 trimesters)
Part-time: 2 years (6 trimesters)
The Diploma of Interior Design and Decoration provides graduates with a theoretical and technical base of knowledge of general interior design and decoration principles and practice, along with an introduction to specialist areas within the interior design and decoration field, leading either to entry-level employment in the interior design and decoration sector or to further specialised design study at Bachelor level.
"Upon completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts, I knew I enjoyed utilising spaces for art, but found myself wanting to be able to create the spaces. When I heard about the Billy Blue course I knew I would learn to create and design unique spaces and interiors with purpose."
DAN SIMON
2013 Graduate
Commercial Interior Design
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