Tokyo Designer Gakuin
Interior Design Department
Become an expert interior designer and learn to coordinate flooring, wallpaper, furniture and more. Deepen your understanding of colors, lighting and space in the school’s lighting studio by experimenting with real-scale spatial design. Then use your skills to take on opportunities to collaborate with companies, notably Suntory, Crasia and Roppongi MidTown Aqua Art, then create an exhibit at the yearly Tokyo Design Week.
Career prospects
- Interior designer
- Interior coordinator
- Interior planner
- Retail display designer
- Event designer
- Stage art staff
- Stage designer
Majors
General Interior Design
Students study residential space design and learn CAD and model making, necessary for a career in the field. This course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to design interiors from a wide range of perspectives, and to think about what makes a space comfortable for people.
Interior Coordinator
Become a kitchen design expert through interior coordinator qualification preparation and kitchen specialist training courses. Students learn through practical training in kitchens, with water-related remodeling companies and at showrooms of kitchen manufacturers. Then take your specialized knowledge about kitchens and use it to propose comfortable and easy-to-use kitchen spaces.
Retail Design
Learn to design stores in the retail, restaurant and service industries. Hone your design sense to make a business viable as a whole, rather focusing on simply designing the space alone. Students will study design techniques for custom-made furniture, such as sofas for cafes and counters or display fixtures for apparel stores.
Spatial Display Design
Get involved in stage decoration work as a stage art or stage designer, commercial space direction as a display designer, or venue configuration and space direction for events and exhibition spaces as a space producer. Take advantage of a full-fledged studio equipped with specialized equipment and the space necessary for stage art (scenography).
Furniture Design
Become an expert in designing and building furniture, including chairs, tables, shelves, doors, lighting and store fixtures. Take the opportunity to collaborate with a German design university and exchange ideas and trade feedback on your work.
Where alumni work
- Ikea Japan
- Tansei TDC
- Otsuka Furniture
- Kokuyo Marketing
- Takarazuka Stage
- Kanai Daidogu
- Murayama
- Misawa Home
- Century Home
- Tokyo Takara Shokai
- Tokyo Interior Furniture
- Total Reform
- Reed Planning
- Pros Housing
- Mirai Kobo
- Toa Kogyo
- MDI
- YSK
- Nomura Duo