UNDERGRADUATE OPEN DAY 2009:

Thursday 29th October 2009

Open Day is an opportunity for you to come and visit the School, research courses, meet staff and students, and take a tour of the studio and workshop facilities throughout campus.

The event is aimed at any student who is thinking about a career in Fine Art, Design or Architecture and Open Day aims to provide you with the information you need to make the decision on where and to what you will eventually apply.

Although Open Day is predominantly for those considering an undergraduate degree in the creative arts, graduate students are also welcome to attend.

For further information on the above events please contact our Recruitment Team at recruitment@gsa.ac.uk or call +44 (0) 141 353 4645.

Course Information:

We offer committed students a well tested structure within which to prepare for the increasingly specialised and competitive world of professional interior design where subjective creativity must be supported by objective practicality.

We do not presume to teach you to be creative. You bring your individual creativity to the course and we help you to express it through the cultivation of appropriate intellectual and practical skills.

We encourage bold, clear, conceptual thinking but believe that ideas must be tempered by an informed response to function and fabrication.

We believe you will best learn to design through intense, sustained, involvement with the design process and we therefore demand a heavy workload of diverse projects which together offer comprehensive experience of the discipline. You are guided throughout by supportive and collaborative tutorial discussion.

All full and part-time tutors are actively engaged in practice and together offer a complimentary range of specialist experience, which includes furniture design, computer draughting, and professional management techniques. Visiting tutors bring supplementary experience of major specialist activities, such as retail, leisure, exhibition and theatre design. The work of staff members is regularly published and exhibited in Britain and abroad.

About:

Interior Design
at
The Glasgow School of Art

Head of Department
Drew Plunkett BSc MA FRSA

Interior Design is about the revitalisation and enrichment of buildings, the creation of exciting, enjoyable - and practical - environments. Old buildings and new functions must be made compatible. Existing qualities must be respected and future identities defined.

Designing an interior, like every other creative act, involves making a personal statement but a shared understanding of social and architectural conventions gives designers and those who use their buildings a common language. The designer must enrich the vocabulary of that language.

Interior Design is a vibrant profession with a proven record for improving quality of life and generating business success. It has a well-established professional structure which allows graduates the opportunity to gain invaluable experience at various levels of responsibility before choosing to set up in independent practice or take leading roles in established studios.
OUR GRADUATES

Glasgow School of Art graduates have a fully comprehensive range of the skills necessary for professional success and, while a number find work in the parallel fields of theatre and film design, the overwhelming majority chose to work within the profession.

While a few of our graduates immediately set up their own practices, like Studioarc and LWD, based in Glasgow and Edinburgh, many find roles within established design companies, like Graven Images and Curious Oranj in Glasgow. The majority work in the UK, particularly in London, which is the global centre for interior design activity. Some work for small specialist practices, creating, for example, video and recording studios.

Others work for major international companies like Conran Associates, Fitch Associates, Imagination, Landor and Mulberry. A significant percentage work overseas, in Holland, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Spain, Japan, Australia and The People's Republic of China.