Thinking about the rooms you keep rearranging in your head? This course works through space, light, colour, materials and styling. Mentor feedback on your work makes it the right fit for beginners.
Spatial planning, lighting and colour theory. The reasons behind choices you already make by instinct.
A working commercial designer reviews key tasks. Written feedback comes back within a few weeks.
Six months of access and about eighty hours. A short way to find out if design suits you.
People pay for a room that works. They pay for someone with an eye. The work is easy to picture. A floor plan, a moodboard, a client who cannot decide.
Colour, furniture and styling for a room.
Dressing a home so it sells or lets.
Palettes that hold up in the light of the room.
Advising shoppers in a showroom or store.
Helping buyers see what a space could become.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience. Registered and degree qualified design work sits behind separate study.
What sets this one apart from a video series.
Jenna Cottis works across retail, hospitality, workspaces and mixed-use spaces.
Moodboard demonstrations, space planning walkthroughs and Q&A with the mentor.
Students post sketches and concepts. The mentor replies, and you learn from the other threads.
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From the college, once the six topics are done.
Concepts and boards a mentor has critiqued.
CV reviews and interview preparation.
Enquire and an advisor sends the guide and the six topics.
Start any day. Pay weekly, or upfront in one go.
Key tasks go to the mentor for written critique.
Keep the concepts and boards you make along the way.
No. It starts at design fundamentals. It suits beginners and people building on what they know.
From $29 a week on a flexible plan, or pay upfront. Enquire to confirm current pricing.
About 80 hours across six topics, with 6 months of access.
Jenna Cottis, a commercial interior designer. She gives written critique, and feedback usually lands within a few weeks.
No. They run through the year and are listed in your dashboard. Watch them when you can.
None. Assignments and key activities go to your mentor instead.
It comes from an ICOES accredited centre. The centre holds Official Accreditation with the CPD Standards Office. That is accreditation for professional development. It is not NZQA accredited, so it is not a national qualification. Those are different things. Clients tend to judge the rooms you have done.
There is a 10-Day Money Back Guarantee from the day you enrol.
You enrol through The Career Academy, an online college in Christchurch.
The design course itself is delivered by Ulleo, the college's education partner. The college has run over 15 years. It helps more than 25,000 students a year. Abby, Ulleo's digital assistant, is there day and night.
Picture the day someone hands you their empty room, trusts you with it, and later stands in the doorway not quite believing it is the same place.