How to become an interior Designer after 12th
Interior designer is a person an artist who has a desire to bring out the beauty of living spaces. Creates an ambience in work places.The artist chooses pleasing colours and arranges furniture artistically in a room to alleviate the moods of the people.
Career Path as an Interior Designer
1. Interior decorators : Their primary work is to decorate a room aesthetically. They choose colours for the walls, furnitures for the room, flooring carpets , tiles and proper window frames and doors for a room.
2. Assistant Interior Designer: These people do administrative work . They file and document each projects. They communicate with the clients and vendors. Ordering materials, answering phone calls. Arranging meetings with clients and designers. Billing the projects. Managing the budgets.
3. Specialised Interior decorators: These designers specialise themselves in one particular field. Like they will take on projects of decorating residential buildings, some will do offices interiors, industrial floor designs....
4.Youtuber : Interior designers will video themselves on how a projects are taken and how it gets completed. They present their way of work to the world.
5. Professors : They can become teaching professors in design universities and mentor upcoming artists in this profession.
Skill development needed for interior designers
Interior designers must have or develop these skills which will enhance them professionally.
Aesthetic sense: Good colour sense and arranging of furniture to create a pleasing environment for people to live in.
Drawing skills.: The designer must have good drawing skills to create new ideas. If computer is not available, the artist must have the ability to create 3D drawing of the interior freehand.
Communication skill: Must be able to put forth new ideas convincingly across the clients. Must be able to communicate the designs with contactors and other workers to get work done on time.
Research : Complete knowledge on materials that is going to be used in interiors.
Technical skills: Keep updating software's based knowledge related to Designing.
Budgeting : Must have knowledge of costs of resources. Must be able to get good resources like, wood, paints, manpower at effective prices and at the same time Bill the clients reasonably . Also one must have a margin for profits.
Stay inspired.: Follow various blogs related to designing, read magazines, enter local design competitions, attend events and fairs related to designing.
Create projects: Redesign your own house, friends home interiors, local community. Document your style of designing.
1Year diploma in Interior design from reputed colleges.
OR
Degrees in :
B Sc in Interior design 3years
B des Interior design - 4years
- Indian Institute of Art and Design (IIAD), New Delhi.
- National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad.
- IDeA World design College. Bangalore
- Art colleges India
- Rest of the world
- Interior Design Colleges : France
- Interior Design universities: Argentina
- 8 Best Interior Design colleges : Brazil
- Four best Interior colleges : Hong Kong
Here are few salary packages from few different countries.
In India average salary of interior designer in a year is Rs 3,00,000. As one gains experience the salary earned can be around Rs 20,00,000 to Rs 50,00,000.
In Brazil an interior designer will earn around BLR 95,500 per year. The highest average salary can be of BLR 140,000 per year.
The average interior designer salary in Japan is ¥4,500,627 or an equivalent hourly rate of ¥2,627.
The average interior designer salary in Philippines is ₱467,225, or an equivalent hourly rate of ₱225.
The average interior designer salary in Malaysia isRM 758,000 or an equivalent hourly rate of RM37.
The average interior designer salary in France is 45000 €.
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