Overview
About the course
Do you want to learn how interior retail spaces can be arranged in ways that attract customers, maximise their engagement with products, and motivate them to buy?
You will learn the fundamental principles, inspiration and techniques involved in visual merchandising for interior retailers creating a visual and sensory experience to drive interest back to our high streets.
During the Visual Merchandising - Interiors course at the University of the Arts London (UAL) you will visit London, Selfridges, Harrods and Liberty’s to look at how the Visual Merchandising principles can be applied both creatively and commercially.
You will get the opportunity to create two practical projects which will include a Window styling project for a Pop Up Shop- creating your own 3D model and an interior styling project where we will be focusing upon incorporating current consumer trends.
Programme Structure
Topics covered:- Understanding the visual elements that attract customer to windows and engage them in store.
- Exterior window communication and basic in-store layout.
- Trend forecasting and how it informs the inspiration for retail concepts.
- There will be study trips to research interior retailers' visual merchandising strategies related to a project brief. You will do two projects.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 4 days
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
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Disciplines
Fashion, Textiles and Luxury Goods Interior Design View 154 other Short Courses in Fashion, Textiles and Luxury Goods in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Student insurance
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Other requirements
General requirements
Materials to bring to first session:
- Notebook and pen
- Camera (or camera phone)
- Laptop or tablet, needed for research online and suggested for design board outcomes.
- USB/pen drive for storing content/lectures (NB a drop box with this content will be set up for students to access/download this data)
- Supplementary foam board/ colour card (1 sheet of A2 white foam board will be provided for each student for the making of scale models - purchases can be made at the CSM store or recommended art stores)
- Pens
- Pencils
- Coloured pencils
- Ruler
- Eraser
- Glue stick
- Craft knife
- A couple magazines and material samples (optional)
Tuition Fee
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International
720 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 720 GBP for the full programme during 4 days. -
National
720 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 720 GBP for the full programme during 4 days.
Living costs for London
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.