Career Opportunities

Occupation

Interior Design

About The Occupation

Interior designers work on the layout of interiors. They work on the interiors of buildings. They work keeping in mind the clients need. They work towards making the building interiors functional, pleasing and appropriate. This job profile includes interior designers, interior decorators, theatre and set designers, exibition designers, window and display designers. Interior decorators plan on the color , scheme ,arrangements, etc

Domain

Private

Scope

1) work as freelance 2) work with architectural firms 

Skills Required

1)Scientific aptitude

2)Ability to deal with technical details

3)Ability to work as part of a team

4)Drawing aptitude

5)Ability to work as part of a team

6)Colour sense

7)Ability to work in a given budget

8)Good communication skills

9)Analytical mind

10)Knowledge of trends

11)Visual sensitivity

12)Good communication skills

13)Visual sensitivity

14)Knowledge of textures, materials and trends

15)Drawing aptitude

Eligibility

The four year Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) programme offers specialization in Interior Design. The School of Interior Design, Vidyanagar offers a full time Interior Design Course. Students who have passed Plus Two in Science with minimum 50% can apply. The School of Interior Design, Ahmedabad offers a professional programme in Interior Design to candidates who have passed wwith 55% aggregate in Maths, Biology, Physics, Chemistry and English.

Institutions offering the course

Institutes in Bihar                                                                                          

1. JD Institute of Fashion Technology, Patna, Bihar 

2. International Institute of Fashion Design, Patna, Kumar Towers, 1st floor, Boring road crossing, Patna, Bihar, India, Phone: 0612-2530069, Mobile:9430422552, Email: corporate@nifd.net                                                                                                 

Institutes in other locations:                                                                           

1. Anima Institute of Fashion, Corporate Office at 1 Shambhu Nath Pandit Street, Kolkata-700 020

2. Apeejay Institute of Design (affiliated to Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar), 54, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, MB Road, Near Batra Hospital New Delhi - 110 062 

3. Birla Institute of Liberal Arts and Management Sciences, 5-A, Sarat Bost Road (Opp.Minto Park), Kolkata-20 

4. Exteriors-Interiors (In association with Jensen & Nicholson (Conducts courses in Computer Aided Interior design) EDIT Institute, Mumbai (Other centres-Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune)

5. School of Arts, Fort, Mumbai-400 001

6. National Institute of Fashion Design, 14-B, Camac Street, Kolkata-700 017 

7. Nirmala Niketan, 49, New Marine Lines, Mumbai-400 020

8. Rachna Sansad, School of Interior Design, 278, Shankar Ghanekar Marg, Prabhadevi, Mumbai-400 025 

9. South Delhi Polytechnic for Women, Lajpat Nagar IV, New Delhi-110 024 


References

1)Tondon, K.(n.d.) career as interior designer retrieved from http://www.shiksha.com/career-as-interior-designer-cc-65 

2) Interior designer(n.d.) retrieved from http://www.careercentre.dtwd.wa.gov.au/Occupations/Pages/interior-designer.aspx