INTERIOR DESIGN, GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION AND MULTIMEDIA DESIGN - Blending Arts With Business
Possible Career Options - Games Designer, Animator, Residential Designer, Entertainment Designer, Institutional Designer, Health Care Designer, Office Designers, Retail Designer, Commercial Designer, Industrial Designer, Advertising Photographer, Hotel Interior Designer, Character Designer for Anaimation, Editorial Designer, Multimedia Designer, Exhibition Designer.
The interior design world if filled with a myriad of colours, subtle textures, innumerable shapes and forms that are creatively used to turn space into a masterpiece that caters for specific functionalities. The interior designers heighten the aesthetics of a place and instill a sense of belonging for its occupants.
An interior designer's work is varied and challenging as it moves from intelligent designing to detailed execution. Part artist and part business professional, designers kickstart their project by conferring with clients to learn of their unique requirements.
The process involves identifying, researching, programming, carrying out designing analysis, exploring spatial solutions and inspecting work sites. Some tasks will require knowledge of building materials, building construction and even local building codes.
Interior designers are now in high demand, both locally and internationally, to work on housing, industrial and institutional projects. Career options include joining a design consulting compnay, interior design firms, architectural firms, furniture dealerships or even freelancing.
As for graphic designers, they use various methods to create visual representation of ideas and messages. these are the professional behind visual communications and presentation for most of our items. Magazines, advertisements (including billboards), brochures, product packaging (including CD covers), and web designs are some results of their efforts. it is due to the creativity of graphic designers that many outstanding brands and companies are able to successfully build their companies identity through signboards, cars, planes, etc.
Graphic designers can opt to specialise in an area of their liking. for instance, they can concentrate on producing illustrations, specialise in photography or on producing advertising materials (Art Director who work on press ads and TV commercials).
Another exciting option is to become a multimedia designer. These professionals specialise in work that is finished in digital form; and appears on computer screesn or are projected onto a fixed screen or surface. Examples of their work include the countless web pages on the Internet and interactive presentations on CD-ROMS.
Multimedia designers often specialise in one area, e.g. videos, animation or interactive games. Designing games and ring tones for mobile phones have now become an important area of work for them, which is not surprising given the vast possibilities with sound, music and special effects,
Potential cnadidates for this field should feel at ease with digital technology which continuosly opens up many possibilities for their work. Moreover, they can expect the Internet to continuosly challenge them to produce more engaging and pioneering work. This is an area where they will push all known boundaries to evolve and be more creative.
Study programs at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia.
The cutting-edge design degree programs provides a carefully balanced combination of theories and applications to make an impact on the business landscape. The Graphic Communicaton Design Programme combines structured teaching with individual exploration, to provide focused yet enriching educational experience. As for the Multimedia Design programme, students explore multiple forms of information content and information processing (text, audio, graphics, animation, video, interactivity).
