Inchbald School of Design

The full time experience at Inchbald is fully immersive.  As soon as you enter the school you are classed as a designer, embarking on a challenging journey involving you in practical studio work and academic studies.  Your tutors will be on hand at all times to guide, support, and advise you in your progress.

You will be taught and tutored for four days during the week with one day of self-directed study.  If you wish to work in studio or in the library on a study day you are of course welcome to do so.

You will be taught the principles of basic design and at the same time you will explore an exciting range of design projects which will become both more complicated and more realistic throughout the progress of the year’s studies.  Site visits, both architectural and garden are regular features and both buildings are within minutes of the inspirational Museums and Exhibition Centre of central London.

The Inchbald School of Design is a small college in the private sector with two dedicated faculties, Interior Design and Garden Design.  In house students number no more than a hundred students at any one time.

This relatively small student body, allied to intensive programmes delivered at a ratio of eight students to one tutor means that Inchbald retains a very personal and social climate which by definition prioritises individual talents and individual characteristics.  Here we all know each other well; long term friendships, and often long term collaborations, are formed and the Inchbald management remains interested in and supportive of graduates careers and their later progress.

Why Choose the Part-Time Course?

There are many reasons why you may choose to study part-time at Inchbald, it may be that you are short of time, are already working or have a young family or other time-heavy commitments.  There may also be financial reasons why a part-time course is the only option for you enabling you to study at Inchbald on a budget to suit your situation.

By attending part-time this enables you to gain a professional qualification whilst fitting it around your life.

There are huge benefits to studying part-time; part-time students tend to be very focussed and driven during the period of time they are at the School.  This means that you can maximise your studio sessions, organise your time well and manage the amount of homework you might be required to do for the course.  A part-time student doesn’t have the luxury of a slower paced full time course so therefore generally use their studio time to full benefit.

Another advantage to part time learning is the ability to fit around any extra work that you might wish to do in your own time, for example reading around a subject, visiting gardens and indeed visiting galleries and exhibitions to gain more inspiration.  This is often done in a small group as you get together to explore a wider range of topics around the course you are studying.