KLC School of Design

⭐Class of 2024⭐

Tap the link below to explore the ‘Graduate Online Exhibition’ and view the impressive portfolios of our recent Garden Design Diploma students! 🌿

Congratulations to all our talented graduates for their hard work and a shoutout to the inspiring tutors and guest speakers who have guided these future garden designers, preparing them to step into the industry studio-ready!

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Last week, we celebrated the launch of diploma Interior Design graduate Bobbi Fitzpatrick's stunning rug collection at a preview event held at the Jacaranda showroom🎉

The concept of the designs came from the breath-taking landscape she witnessed on a hike along the coastal cliffs in Portugal. Captivated by the natural beauty of erosion, she found inspiration from the unique shapes and textures of the eroded rock surfaces to inform the shapes, colours and materials in the collection. Bobbi comes from a textiles background and combined these skills with her knowledge from her Interior Design diploma, bringing them together to create this winning collection.

As part of a student competition hosted by Jacaranda Carpets, Bobbi’s three hand-tufted rug designs were selected to go into production. The competition will run again within this academic year, so stay tuned ✨

To learn more about what we offer, register your place at our Open Day on Saturday 19 October!

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Open Day Invite!💥

Curious about studying Interior Design or Garden Design? Join us at our Open Day on ✨Saturday 19 October✨ 9.45am - 12.30pm to chat to our tutors and students about what it's like to study at KLC School of Design, learn about scholarships and bursaries, and find out more about our courses.

If you can't make it to our Bloomsbury campus we are also offering virtual Open Days:
💥 Garden Design - 16th October, 5-6.30pm
💥 Interior Design - 17th October, 5-7pm

Book your place now by tapping the link below

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Congratulations to Interior Design tutor, Nicola Burt, on being a finalist for The Society of British and International Interior Design (SBID) awards in the Residential House under 1M – UK category 🎉

was commissioned to redesign, decorate, and specify bespoke joinery, furniture, soft furnishings and accessories for a family home in Wimbledon. The brief for this project was to create a Japandi-style look and feel for this young couple's new home. A calming base colour palette with pops of Autumnal tones, natural materials, and plants were the key to creating this look.

The public are invited to vote for their favourite finalist designs, To show your support for Nicola Burt Interior Design and cast your votes, click the link in our bio!

💥 Study Interior Design with us, book your Open Day on Saturday 19th October! - Link in below

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Interested in studying Interior or Garden design? 5 reasons to attend our Open Day 👉

📍 Saturday 19 October - Dilke House, London

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Students from our BA Interior Design and Diploma HE in Applied Interior Design courses spotlight on Dezeen💫

Featuring projects such as the adaptive reuse of a department store into a shelter for victims of domestic abuse, a bar designed using recycled materials and a residential design that supports ageing in place.

🔗 Tap below to read more about the student projects

West Dean College spotlights ten interior design student projects The adaptive reuse of a department store into a shelter for victims of domestic abuse is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at West Dean College.

LEADERSHIP IN DESIGN: A new series of online talks ✨

The realisation of design is a collaborative effort. While we may, as designers, execute our ‘process’ as individuals; developing our ideas and proposals, we require others to assist in making design a reality. Within this collaboration, leadership is key to both building our teams and how we lead clients, consultants and stakeholders to embrace the opportunities and outcomes of design.

In this Leadership in Design series, we invite six diverse individuals to explore aspects of leadership in relation to design. From the leadership role in developing ourselves and our teams, to ensuring inclusivity, to becoming a visionary leader, we will explore the topic through different lenses. Whether you are at the start of your professional journey or an established design professional, this series will empower you through developing your leadership skills and the mindset to drive design innovation through cohesive teams.

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The Sustainable Designer Talks. Our 8 week online series will see a variety of design experts discuss questions of sustainability in the built environment industries. The aim of these talks it to inspire and provoke students and professionals to consider the future of a practice which integrates a greater awareness of sustainability across social, cultural, economic, and environmental contexts.

Tickets are available from our website.

GRADUATION 2024 🎓🎓🎓
 
On Friday we welcomed students, tutors and a whole host of design industry professionals, as well as family and friends, for our annual ceremony celebrating the achievements of our 2023-2024 interior design graduates.
 
Congratulations to all graduates, we wish you a fantastic future and don’t forget to stay in touch!✨
 
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Congratulations to Interior Design students for winning at the Architects for Health Student Awards! 🎉 Groups of students took part in an exciting live project with the Royal Hospital for Neurodisability where they were challenged to transform the basement-based staff facilities. ✨

📸 1-3: Group Studio Soleil (Holly Crook, Stephanie Hollaway, Miki Fallstrom, Natacha Ravier, Ana Trofin, Imi Waller) won the HE Design award for their project redesigning the staff changing areas for the Royal Hospital of Neuro-disability. They aimed ‘to make the basement a warm and relaxing space for workers to get ready for the day or to wind down from a day of demanding work.’

📸 4-6: Group Resolve Creative (Izzy Allen, Ely Khan, Bianca Moraru, Alex Buckley, Iszi Kelly, Anouk Jentgen) were awarded Highly Commended for the same category.

📸7-8: Out of 23 submissions, Online BA Interior Design student Alexandra Hunt-Dallison, won Highly Commended in the BA Interior Design Award for her project on adaptive reuse; converting a disused department store into a domestic violence shelter.

KLC School of Design Alumni Summer Party 🥂

As part of the Chelsea Design Quarter Street Party, earlier this month we invited our esteemed alumni for an evening of drinks, canapes and networking.

Thanks to the team at Waterworks for hosting and to our alumni for joining us!

For their final project, Certificate in Residential Interior Design students have been tasked with the ground floor remodel of a client's home in Surrey.

Full time student Jess' design scheme breathes life and airiness back into the space, intertwining a UK coastal cottage with an English garden by using shades of coastal blues, garden greens and accents of red, against a backdrop of white washed wood panelling and organic neutral colours.

Check out the stunning visuals of the project ➡️
Images 1-4: Project renderings created using Enscape3d
Image 5: Hand rendered floorplan created using Promarkers and pencils
Image 6: Living room scheme
Images 7-9: Final sketches
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Learn more about our Interior Design courses at our Open Evening on Wednesday 26 June (in-person), or Thursday 4 July (Online), to chat with our students & tutors and learn more about studying with us. Register: https://buff.ly/482d4fk

Congratulations to our Garden Design Diploma students and alumni who showed at the 2024 Royal Windsor Flower Show at the weekend! 🌿

This year’s show theme was 'In Tune With Nature', which saw a variety of inspiring plant combinations encouraging biodiversity in the garden. With the show complete, each garden will be relocated to a community setting.

Congratulations to our talented students and alumni:

📸1: by : 2023 alumni - WINNER in the Garden Makers category 🥇
📸2: by 2024 student Patrick Bogue
📸3: by 2024 student
📸4: by 2024 student Agata Wolf
📸5: by 2023 alumnus Guillaume Jombart - Second place in the Garden Makers category 🥈
📸6: by 2022 alumnus Linda Lyne

”For me, embarking on this course meant taking a leap of faith by leaving my job and fully dedicating myself. I really believe that studying at KLC School of Design is the best decision I’ve ever made. The teaching quality is exceptional, the atmosphere is consistently positive and inspiring, and the course content is incredibly engaging. I feel immensely fortunate to have been part of this cohort and to have had the opportunity to study.”

- Annie Green, recently completed the full time Certificate in Residential Interior Design.

📸 Project 2 work by Annie: kitchen, dining and lounge of a coastal home in Worthing, Sussex.

Are you considering a career in interior design?
Join us! Meet the course leaders, students and alumni from our courses at our next Bloomsbury campus Open Evening on 26 June, or virtual open evening on 4 July. Register your place: https://buff.ly/48mjTIV

THE SUSTAINABLE DESIGNER: A new series of online talks 🌍

While there is a clear need for the built environment industry, representing around 40% of UK CO2 emissions, to develop environmentally sustainable practices; sustainability is more than just the environment. Sustainability is a complex relationship between the pressures of our social, cultural, economic, and environmental contexts.

Through the eight talks of this series, we hope to broaden the discussion of how designers, in the built environment industries, can better meet the challenges of addressing the complex contexts that are contingent upon questions of sustainability. From the reuse of materials and products to issues of well-being, this series will inspire and provoke students and professionals to consider the future of a practice which integrates a greater awareness of sustainability across social, cultural, economic, and environmental contexts.

At the core of this series is the question “How do we make sustainability central to the practice of interior design?”

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