Is there a future for studying interior design? What is the current outlook for the industry? Then let's collect and sort out the understanding of the industry today, and interpret the real interior space design for the students
At present, China's urbanization process is relatively fast, a large number of farmers have become citizens, and most of the young people are buying houses in the cities. This makes home renovation a big market. And the demand for housing is long-term and continuous for our country, and the more experience you have, the higher your income.
Design is the first and most critical step in decoration, and it is a process that transforms one's own concept and pursuit of beauty into physical objects. Therefore, mastering interior design is a skill that will never be unemployed, and there is a great future if you learn it well.
Design firm
If you choose to enter the interior design industry, become an interior design-related practitioner, such as draftsman, interior creative designer, 3D modeler, material lighting engineer, etcThen working in a design firm is the best choice.
Gensler is an internationally renowned architectural design, planning and consulting firm, which is not only the world's largest architectural design firm, but also the dream of countless architecture and interior students.
A firm like Gensler, with a focus on design, brings its employees cutting-edge design concepts and top-level project resources to the industry. If you choose to work in a design firm after graduation, you will gain a focus on the in-depth development of the interior design industry, improve your capabilities, and accumulate customer resources and contacts. If you want to graduate and work in the firm, my personal advice is to look for high-quality internships, participate in more high-quality projects, and participate in more international competitions during your time at school.
Make full use of the resources and opportunities provided by the school to enrich your resume, if you can come up with a rich resume when you graduate, then your success rate of entering the firm is very high.
Company & Brand Design Department
In addition to working in an interior design firm, students can also choose to work in the design department of a company or brand. Most brands have offline activities and publicity needs, such as Gamble, Apple, Gucci, Dior, and Disney where I worked, Mac, Scent Library, Nestle, etc., no matter what kind of industry and brand, there is a dedicated team to operate offline promotion.
In recent years, pop-up stores and online store inspections have emerged in an endless stream, and the brand's publicity and marketing has begun to transform from the original online to the dual mode of offline + online. Dior, for example, has repeatedly promoted its ideas and new products in pop-up stores around the world in the form of pop-up stores.
Major brands have also established their own design teams, interior design, window design, and exhibition design, all of which are necessary "hard-core positions". For example, Disney also has a special design team to cooperate with the promotion and plan offline activities. After graduating from the interior major, you can also work in the design department of a large company and give full play to your professional advantages.
In addition to brands, some advertising companies and marketing companies also need designers with interior design backgrounds to complete the design and layout of the exhibition site, and they can also work in this type of company.
If you want to enter the brand design department, or the design department of an advertising agency or marketing company, you should be exposed to more interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary integration projects than accumulating projects that focus on interior design itself. For example, interior + fine art, interior + photography, just like my student who collaborated with the curator, he used what he learned in interior design and expressed it in another disciplinary form.
Independent Designer & Entrepreneur
In addition to working in brands, companies, and interior design graduates, you can also choose to form your own team, your own studio, and enter the social work in the form of independent designers or entrepreneurial teams.
Truth-seeking teachers encourage students to start their own businesses, but it is not recommended that students start their own businesses as soon as they graduate. Having good ideas and ability is a prerequisite for starting a business, but if you don't have social resources and stable customers to open the market and open the door to this industry for you, your business will be very difficult at the beginning.
Social experience, resources and vision will be the strongest help on your entrepreneurial path, so if you want to start a business, then it is recommended that you first go to the industry's leading brands and companies to work for a period of time, where you can accumulate the experience of your predecessors, learn the concept of the front end of the industry, and then turn it into your own.
In addition, the development of the economy and the increase of income have made more and more families begin to consider the comfort and taste of the living environment, and the decoration industry has also developed rapidly, and the demand for interior design talents is naturally strong.
Overall, the interior design industry is promising, and there is a high demand for talent at the moment, which is worth learning hard. At the same time, it is also a challenge, which requires continuous dedication, continuous summary and progress.