BDes (Hons) Interior and Spatial Design
Application Guidelines
Advice and portfolio guidance on how to apply to our BeDs (Hons) Interior and Spatial Design programme.
Course Details
The BDes (Hons) Interior and Spatial Design programme is taught by expert practitioners in Edinburgh's vibrant interior design, exhibition and lighting design industries, producing graduates with a profound understanding of real projects, real clients and real materials.
This is a full-time course studied over four years. Through a carefully choreographed series of projects, you'll explore the large and the small, the public and the private, the old and the new, the solid and the void. Specialist tutors in computer-aided design, technological studies and theoretical perspectives inform and support the core design projects.
You'll design interior and exterior spaces relating to a wide range of themes including social (e.g. schools, hospitals, libraries), commercial (e.g. retail, leisure, offices) and the arts (e.g. theatres, museums, galleries).
The primary focus is to allow you to develop a sophisticated design language and an understanding of the relationship between space, form, structure and materials within the context of building purpose, the end-user and the wider environment.
Entry Requirements
To read about the entry requirements please click here
Portfolio Guidance
We are asking all applicants to create an online portfolio using a format of your choosing. Each portfolio should showcase a range of your skills, we have outlined some of the mail aspects we look for – DRAW, MAKE AND REFLECT.
DRAW
Show us some of your drawing skills – particularly in freehand (e.g. still life drawing, life drawing, sketches). Drawing is probably the most important skill employers look for, it helps communicate your ideas quickly and clearly. If you are applying for advance entry to Year 2 or 3 of this degree, we would also expect you to submit examples of orthographic drawing. Year 1 applicants do not need to demonstrate this.
MAKE
Show us something you have made using a new technique you have learnt or material you have used and how you experimented with and discovered these methods to come to a final piece. This can be literally anything physical: jewellery, photographic hand printing, sculpture, or making your own clothes.
RELFECT
To excel in this programme and in the industry, students need to be critically reflective. Tell us what you have learned from the projects you are showcasing in your portfolio, how would be interested in applying this knowledge? What would you like to develop next? You can also show us in written work or poems you have completed.
Entry at Levels 2-3
The School encourages advanced entry to Year 2 or Year 3 for those students holding HNC/HND or Foundation Studies qualifications. Consideration will also be given to mature students with appropriate work experience for advanced entry.
Instructions on submission of your Digital Portfolio
Email the link with your name and to S.Richardson@napier.ac.uk to arrive no later than 01/Feb/2022. Please remember to allow access without a password otherwise asking for permission to view your portfolio can delay your application.
If you have shown any precedent studies in your work, make sure that you know the name of the design or architect and the name of the project.
Find out more through the official BDes (Hons) Interior and Spatial Design website.
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