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The way we design our environments matters more than ever, and in the Interior Design program at Columbus College of Art & Design, you’ll find the facilities, tools, and faculty to make your design dreams reality. 

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Building Together

You’ll dive into design quickly your first year with projects like Intro to Design, which features an emphasis on professional presentation skills, and Collaboration in Design, which teaches you how to work together. (Designers rarely work alone. Squad goals.) From the beginning, you’ll learn how to ask the questions that might uncover solutions and solve big problems.

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Solve Problems

Like an architect, you’ll learn how to identify what a client needs to create a comfortable, engaging, and appropriate space. Those skills are a priority. Design is all about making the world a better place, and by questioning how spaces, products, and buildings can serve a better function, or be more beautiful and useful, you’ll be solving problems — not just designing for design’s sake.

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See Through Walls

You’ll learn how — and why — to make the right design choices, which is key to creating user-friendly, sustainable, and human-centered design. And once you understand how things are assembled and constructed, you’ll make better decisions as a designer. From footer to roof and everything in between, hands-on building construction classes take away the mystery behind the drywall, while sustainability and user-experience courses ensure that you consider the human factor first. In short, you’ll have a direct impact on people.

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When Kelly DeVore discovered smaller-scale projects encompassing interior design and branding, like creating materials and spaces for wineries — including one named Coolest Wine Label by Seattle magazine — she found her calling. DeVore teaches interior design studio and advertising and graphic design concepts at CCAD and believes that by considering light, sound, texture, and the environment of a space, designers impact the human experience.

Joel Gundlach won the 2016 CCAD Outstanding Faculty Award. He has taught Industrial Design and Interior Design classes for more than two decades, and he enjoys helping students construct well-thought-out places. A freelance furniture designer, Gundlach’s clients include the Columbus Foundation and Columbus Museum of Art.