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Interior Design

Interior design studies take 3,5 years  (7 semesters) and students obtain a BA degree.

Interior design can be the beginning of a lifetime adventure with design and shaping the space around us. For over a dozen years, aesthetic requirements related to: residential space, as well as office or commercial space have been increasing. Today, an interior designer is one of the sought-after professionals who can meet these expectations.

What after college?

• Bachelor’s degree
• Competency passport
• Opportunity to continue studies at the Master’s level

Graduates will be well prepared to work as:

• independent interior designer
• independent designer
• designer/architect assistant
• 3d visualizer
• 2D creative artist
• visual merchandiser in the field of exhibitions and customer service in the interior design industry
and to run your own business

Organization of classes:

Part-time studies (extramural)

  • Duration: 3.5 years (7 semesters) – in the last semester, professional practice and diploma project

Attention! It is possible to complete studies after the 6th semester, if a diploma project (Bachelor’s thesis) and professional practice provided for in the program have been completed by then

  • 10 meetings per semester (on average 2 meetings per month)
  • Class days for part-time (extramural) studies: on Friday from 16.00, on Saturday and Sunday

some classes are conducted remotely, using the Microsoft Teams application (in accordance with the ministerial guidelines and the Rector’s decision)

Full-time studies (full-time)

  • Duration: 3 years (6 semesters)
  • Classes 4 days a week: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (including one day a week online classes)

Practical classes are held in design studios and a computer lab at the University’s headquarters.

What is needed to carry out the classes?

We work on programs (provided in the computer lab):

Every student of interior design is obliged to:

  • to have their own computer with an audio-visual system necessary for remote work and for their own project work
  • to buy: materials for art classes, student license

Adobe software (in the first year) and Sketchup (in the second year) in order to carry out own work on projects (other software is free of charge and can be downloaded by the student via an e-mail address in the tyszkiewicz.edu.pl domain).

Full-time studies (full-time)

  • Duration: 3 years (6 semesters)
  • Classes 4 days a week: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (including one day a week online classes)

Practical classes are held in design studios and a computer lab at the University’s headquarters.

Program

The aim of education in the field of interior design is comprehensive preparation of graduates for the profession of a designer. When developing the proprietary educational program, the situation of the educational services market, trends on the labor market, as well as the specificity and demand for specific skills and competences of graduates of interior design were taken into account.

Professionalism, professional responsibility, interdisciplinarity, artistic sensitivity and a reliable designer’s workshop are important attributes of the identity of a graduate of interior design, which are shaped throughout the education process.

The program is extremely practical and is based on specialist (design) studios:

  • interior architecture design
  • designing furniture and utility forms
  • designing exhibitions and spatial forms
  • visual communication
  • architectural design
  • computer graphics
Basic laboratories

INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE STUDIO

The interior design studio prepares students to work in the area of interior space creation in close connection with a precisely developed functional program. The ability to build the character and mood of the designed space through the creative selection of forms and materials as well as the use of light constitute the scope of theoretical and practical knowledge acquired in the education process. The original, practical program of the studio equips its students with skills in the field of: practical workshop skills, interior design and open space, creating formally coherent interiors with simple and complex functions, the use of computer programs supporting design, creating visualizations of architectural designs using 3D modeling and animation, reality augmented AR (Augmented Reality) for the purposes of presenting architectural projects, the use of virtual reality (e.g. OCULUS RIFT) for interactive presentations of architectural projects using modern techniques and tools.

Basic laboratories

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

The studio aims to teach design in the field of solving the function and form of simple architectural objects, linking them with the immediate environment (shaping and ordering the environment), using the scale of a human and an object and their mutual relations. In addition, the classes are aimed at developing skills:

  • drawing up the necessary design assumptions for the topic under development
  • preparing a clear and unambiguous graphic record of the project using various techniques (hand sketches, conceptual diagrams, simple technical drawings in a given scale, computer models, etc.)
  • modeling (schematic models in a given scale)
  • preparation of a description explaining the idea of the project
  • creative solving of indicated design issues
  • developing a design idea, from the initial idea to the final design
  • belief in the desirability and accuracy of the proposed design solutions
  • use the knowledge gained in other laboratories
Basic laboratory

COMPUTER GRAPHICS LAB

The studio enables students to learn graphic programs necessary for design work. Its aim is to provide the knowledge necessary for a clear and interesting presentation of your projects and all kinds of multimedia presentations. The studio introduces issues related to visual communication techniques and the principles of using the design language. You will learn to present projects in the form of presentation boards and multimedia presentations using modern programming. You will prepare a professional portfolio. You will learn graphic programs necessary for design work. to work – Auto Cad, SketchUp You will learn the use of OKULUS GO – virtual reality in architecture

 

Additional studios to choose from

DESIGN OF FURNITURE AND APPLICABLE FORMS

The main goal in the teaching process in this Laboratory is to develop students’ independence of thinking and the correctness of making optimal decisions in individual phases of developed tasks. Students should acquire knowledge and the ability to analyze design problems in search of new, non-stereotypical formal, functional and structural solutions of designed objects. They should learn to conduct comparative research on the tasks they solve, to define, describe and recognize them correctly.

After completing the course, students should be able to construct objects with a given function, based on the principles of building form and spatial composition, as well as the ability to convey information about the structure, especially in the development of detail, i.e. the ability to create documentation defined in such a way that the idea of the project is always unambiguously readable and possible to be restituted in space. Factors supporting the learning outcomes are also developing students’ need for an interesting, sensitive, creative graphic record of the presented projects. Developing an attitude of openness to current achievements in the field of design, expressing one’s own opinions and judgments based on sensitivity and creative maturity

Additional studios to choose from

STUDIO OF EXHIBITIONS AND SPATIAL FORMS

The main goal of the studio is to educate an exhibition designer who will independently, efficiently and creatively deal with the design of exhibition spaces. A series of thematically prepared exercises and a system of individual corrections stimulates the student’s development in the field of creating exhibitions of various content and complexity, such as stands, shop windows, thematic exhibitions, fairs, shows, e-vents. The classes are conducive to the acquisition of the ability to properly formulate the assumptions of the exhibition, the development of creative personalities and personalization of the designer’s workshop.

In class:

  • you will consolidate the principles of culture and artistic erudition
  • you will learn about trends in contemporary exhibition and interior design
  • you will acquire the ability to combine content, function and form in coherent design activities
  • you will learn to design, in an interesting and creative way, exhibitions, shop windows, exhibition pavilions, showrooms, promotional stands and events
  • you will learn about modern technologies, materials and effects currently used in exhibitions
Additional studios to choose from

VISUAL COMMUNICATION LAB

The aim of the course is to equip participants with the necessary skills and knowledge to undertake design tasks in the field of visual communication; learning the basic means of the graphic language, used to convey information, build meanings and moods of visual communication.

  • You will learn what visual communication is
  • You will learn the practical use of the ability to use computer programs supporting the design process and its implementation
  • You will gain the skills of professional documentation and presentation of visual identification systems, designing min. folders, advertising prints
  • You will learn how to use the author’s drawing, the use of author’s photography and the use of color in works in the field of printing and advertising

The study program is enriched with classes in:

  • basics of design
  • freehand perspective
  • art history
  • drawing and painting, sculpture
  • color and light, photography
  • ergonomics
  • construction with elements of material science
  • building structures
  • descriptive geometry and technical drawing
  • graphic design
  • intellectual property rights
  • entrepreneurship
  • marketing communication

Additional possibilities

During your studies you can benefit from:

  • from ERASMUS+, an international student exchange program
  • from social and scientific scholarships
  • participation in graphic design competitions
  • participation in exhibitions, vernissages and art biennales
  • from study trips to e.g. furniture factories, trade fairs

Recruitment

J. Tyszkiewicz Bielska Higher School

St. Nadbrzeżna 12, 43-300 Bielsko-Biała

Recruitment phone numbers:

  • 514 390 788 – Joanna Madoń
  • 504 292 711 – Jerzy Foltyniak

from 9.00-16.00 from Monday to Friday

email: rekrutacja@tyszkiewicz.edu.pl