Saturday School Short Design Courses

The great challenge for an interior designer is to predict and control the result of a colour scheme. Colour is one of the major elements of design. Its use can dramatically alter the entire character of any design. Used effectively, it can enhance the user’s experience of an interior. Colour can affect a sense of order or disorder; formality or informality. The application of colour can achieve visual balance, movement, rhythm, and tension.
Colour can alter a person’s emotions or energy level. It can enhance relaxation or stimulation and excitement. Colour can establish the ambience of an interior space and make it warm and inviting or cool and aloof. Colour can focus attention onto a particular design element or divert attention from spatial qualities. It can create illusions in an interior space, making it feel larger, smaller, longer or wider. Colour can break up and define spatial elements or unify the same elements.
Just as principles of contrast and unity of elements play an important role in designing an interior, these same principles play an important role when creating a colour scheme. Successful colour schemes invariably rely on established methods of combining colours to create harmonies, contrasts or discords.
The interior designer and decorator is primarily concerned with the visual effects of colour – how colours look in a space, how individual colours contribute to a design, how they interact with each other and are affected by various degrees of lighting. Alongside this concern is the need for an awareness of the cultural attributes and emotional effects of colour.

This program explores the creative and practical aspects of designing in Flash.
In addition to the core concepts of designing for the screen, students explore aspects of Flash design including planning, storyboards, usability and interface design, working with graphics, sound and video and using Action Script to enhance user experience. Students will work on a project to gain a basic understanding of all aspects of the flash design process. The course covers topics such as:
• core design concepts relating to screen design and usability
• visualisation strategies and creative thinking
• 2d animation
• incorporating sound and video
• using Action Script to add interactivity
• optimising published movies for display on a range of devices

Some small group work may be undertaken as dictated by student learning needs and skill levels.

This course is designed to introduce participants to the fundamental principles of interior decoration and to equip them with skills and knowledge that will allow them to apply those principles to basic decoration projects.

The skills and knowledge that will be studied include the elements and principles of design, basic materials and finishes, an introduction to history of decoration styles, colour choice, the selection and placement of furniture, sketching and presentation techniques and the preparation of presentations for clients. Presentation techniques will be developed in practical studio projects. Mood boards and materials boards for presentation of a decoration scheme will be produced in this course.