IED – Istituto Europeo di Design Florence
Course in Interior Design – Focus on Retail and Commercial Spaces – Fall Semester
Florence, Italy
Course
DURATION
4 months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
EUR 8,100 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* enrollment fee: € 2000 - tution fee € 6100
Key Summary
About: This Fall semester programme in Florence covers commercial interior design for hotels, restaurants, retail, offices, banks and theaters. IED guides you from initial sketches to computer renderings and provides theoretical, technical and cultural training. Lessons run Monday to Friday mornings and/or afternoons. Course focus includes space planning, functionality, safety, materials and visualization.
Career Outcomes: You can pursue roles such as retail designer, commercial interior designer, visual merchandiser, or space planner, working in design studios, architecture firms, hotels, retail chains, property developers or freelance. The programme builds concept development, technical documentation and client-communication skills for commercial and retail interiors careers.
Nowadays commercial interior design, that may include hotels and lounges, restaurants and retail spaces, offices, banks, theaters, and everything in between, plays a pivotal role in the success of any business. Whether it’s a luxury hotel or a small business owner, it is up to the commercial interior designer to translate the client’s vision in ways that are practical, profitable, and of course, chic, prioritizing functionality and safety without sacrificing style or aesthetics.
Through this program IED guides you across the whole design process, from the first sketches to computer renderings, providing you with the basic theoretical and technical training, as well as cultural background, which are the necessary elements in the creation of interior designs.
Lessons run from Monday to Friday morning and/or afternoon.
The education path deals with different topics that allows you the acquirement of the cultural, methodological, technical and technological skills necessary for the design of commercial spaces. You will learn the project methodologies, prototyping techniques and acquire a comprehensive introduction to the history of architecture, as well as learn about sustainable materials and approach by using clean technology within the interior design.
You will then refine your technical skills of formal and functional representation of commercial spaces, starting from the free-hand drawing to technical design, up to the production of 3D spaces.
Finally you will be encouraged in the development and the completion of a specific retail project, with a focus on restaurant design.
By the end of the course you will take a final exam for each single subject and will present the project/s you realized so to demonstrate the knowledge and skills achived.
This program is integrated in the 3 year Interior and Furniture Design course. By enrolling to this course you will join the regular classes and will study alongside with IED undergraduate students.
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This is an intermediate program designed for students with at least one year of academic background or professional experience in Interior Design, Industrial Design, Furniture Design, Architecture. Applicants have to master representation techniques such as drawing, sketching and rendering, and visual communication skills such as computer graphics and rendering, as well as model making and verbal communication.