20) Design Your Home

About this class

This class will focus on Interior Design space layouts, color design, design elements, lighting design, flooring and wall treatments, textile and furniture selection, and much more.

Students will design and make interior models and boards and learn about interior styles and trends. Classes will be based on both practical (workshop) and theoretical (PowerPoint presentations) study.

Class Outline

1. Individual Mood Board/Concept Board Development Workshop
2. Color in Interior Design and Study about Basic Color Scheme
3. Principles of Interior Design and Elements of Design
4. Color Theories and Their Application in Interior Design
5. Lighting Design, Study about Various Types of Lighting Applications, Direction of Natural Light
6. Lighting Terminologies and Systems
7. Furniture Glossary
8. Wall Treatments, Flooring Types
9. 3D Model Making: Scaling Floor Plan and Scaling Furniture
10. 3D Model Making: Final Fixing of Furniture
11. Exhibition of Projects and Final Critique

Materials needed

Please note: VCUQatar reserves the right to cancel classes for which not enough participants are registered. Already paid fees will be refunded.

Please do not purchase materials until VCUQatar has sent final course confirmation.

Items to buy for this class

Participants are required to buy their own materials beforehand and bring them to every class:

• One X-acto knife
• 1 pair of scissors
• 1 pencil, 2B
• Eraser, ruler
• 1 micro-tip black pen
• 1 GOUACHE paint set (6-color set, including the primaries: Primary Red, Primary Blue, Primary Yellow)
• 1 brush set 
• 1 paint palette
• 3 water color sheets, size A3
• 1 UHU Stic dry glue stick
• One draft file (30-pocket clear file folder)
• 2 A2-size BLACK FOAM boards
• 1 A1-size BLACK FOAM board
• 1 Super Glue
• A few old-fashioned/interior magazines
• One set of paper pins

On occasions, there may be some more materials to be bought and brought in if and when advised by the instructor.

Where to buy your materials

Most of the materials are available from any art supply shop, for example:

• Cass Art (Fire station): Community Classes students get a 15% discount upon presenting the registration ticket
• Jarir Bookstore: on Rayyan Road or Salwa Road
• Color Note: on Al Nasser Street
• Ibn Al Qayyim: at Markhiya Roundabout
• Al Rawnaq

Schedule

Start: Sun, 16 Apr, 2017
End: Tue, 23 May, 2017
Lessons: 12
Days: Sundays & Tuesdays
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Location: VCUQatar, Room 355
Cost: QAR 1200

Instructors

Manjulakshmi Bharathan

Manjulakshmi is International Fashion Designer being the first designer from Qatar to have showcased her collection at the New York Fashion Week and listed on the Fashion Calendar of CFDA. Being a Fashion Consultant in the region with an expanded career in Design as Design Educator and Researcher extending into the fields of Fashion Design, Interior Design and Jewelry Design, she has an established career in the design industry and has been teaching in VCUQ since 2005.

She has been working with the design industry in Qatar to develop in its various forms and helping new brands and fashion entrepreneurs to launch their brands into the market with the help of her design studio. She is the Creative Head of her Couture Label @gillsmanjulakshmi and @aadimabygm

She is researching in “Sustainable Design Textiles and lifestyle” and has Masters of Business Administration and Marketing and Bachelors in Costume and Fashion Design. She is also one of the designers who has showcased her bridal and evening wear couture collection at the 7th International Fashion Show and Wedding Exhibition "IWED" in 2014, Mercedes Benz Fashion Show 2016, 1st Qatar Fashion Show at the Shop Qatar 2017, NYFW 2018 and has been invited for the Paris Fashion Week 2018.

Register

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