Many people will be willing to find out whether learning interior design from a professional school, college or institution will make them a better designer or not.
Frankly speaking, NO
And that is because design schools help you transform your ideas into reality using a variety of tools such as drawing skills, computer aided designs, clay and paper models, digital presentations etc. Schools help you to express your imagination into reality, but no one can teach you to "imagine" in the first place.
If you don’t have a little spark in your head for imagination then joining a design college won’t make you a batter designer.
However one big advantage of joining a professional institution is that your scope and knowledge of the interior design subject will widen exponentially.
Let me give you an example of what I mean by this.
Let's say in your imagination you have designed a beautiful set up along your fireplace in your living room and try to explain that to the contractor. He gets an idea of what's going on in your head and tries to come up with his own conclusion about what the end results should be.
At this point you don’t know whether whatever he's understood is exactly what you want in your living room or not. SO he goes to his office and creates sketches based on your explanation and his ability to comprehend what you have told him. When he gets the sketches back to you, you both have a something to rely on based on which you can move ahead and finalize the design or make modifications.
In short the art of creating technical drawings and presentations which the contractor has learned from the design school helped him achieve his and your goal of creating a beautiful fireplace. SO in this case his knowledge that he acquired from the interior design school or college helped him a lot, which may not have been possible if you were alone into this project with nothing but "great ideas and imagination".
So primarily, design schools teach you how to transform ideas into reality using definite tools. You can read the blog post on the subject that are taught in an interior design school so that you get a good idea of what kind of knowledge you'll learn.
But one thing that must be considered here is if you are going to design and decorate your home on your own with or without any professional help then all you need is an ability to perfectly express what you want to achieve in your home using any of the media types such as videos, photos, hand drawn sketches, etc so that the designer can produces the nearest possible outcome.
However if you want to pursue a career in interior design by joining a professional firm or starting your own practice then studying at a professional and reputed college will be your best decision.
So does an interior design degree make you a better designer, not really but it will widen the scope, your approach, your outlook and your knowledge towards the subject exponentially to express your imagination into reality.
Frankly speaking, NO
And that is because design schools help you transform your ideas into reality using a variety of tools such as drawing skills, computer aided designs, clay and paper models, digital presentations etc. Schools help you to express your imagination into reality, but no one can teach you to "imagine" in the first place.
If you don’t have a little spark in your head for imagination then joining a design college won’t make you a batter designer.
However one big advantage of joining a professional institution is that your scope and knowledge of the interior design subject will widen exponentially.
Let me give you an example of what I mean by this.
Let's say in your imagination you have designed a beautiful set up along your fireplace in your living room and try to explain that to the contractor. He gets an idea of what's going on in your head and tries to come up with his own conclusion about what the end results should be.
At this point you don’t know whether whatever he's understood is exactly what you want in your living room or not. SO he goes to his office and creates sketches based on your explanation and his ability to comprehend what you have told him. When he gets the sketches back to you, you both have a something to rely on based on which you can move ahead and finalize the design or make modifications.
In short the art of creating technical drawings and presentations which the contractor has learned from the design school helped him achieve his and your goal of creating a beautiful fireplace. SO in this case his knowledge that he acquired from the interior design school or college helped him a lot, which may not have been possible if you were alone into this project with nothing but "great ideas and imagination".
So primarily, design schools teach you how to transform ideas into reality using definite tools. You can read the blog post on the subject that are taught in an interior design school so that you get a good idea of what kind of knowledge you'll learn.
But one thing that must be considered here is if you are going to design and decorate your home on your own with or without any professional help then all you need is an ability to perfectly express what you want to achieve in your home using any of the media types such as videos, photos, hand drawn sketches, etc so that the designer can produces the nearest possible outcome.
However if you want to pursue a career in interior design by joining a professional firm or starting your own practice then studying at a professional and reputed college will be your best decision.
So does an interior design degree make you a better designer, not really but it will widen the scope, your approach, your outlook and your knowledge towards the subject exponentially to express your imagination into reality.
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