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Interior and spatial designer: Typical employers/vacancy sources

Typical employers

Interior and spatial designers typically work for architectural practices or design consultancies (interior or multidisciplinary). Many also freelance or are self-employed although it is uncommon to set up your own business without first getting experience and building up a reputation and list of contacts.

Potential clients may be in the public sector, or in private industry and commerce, and include:

• commercial and construction companies;
• companies in the hotel and leisure industries;
• local government bodies;
• retailers;
• theatre, TV and film companies.

Increasingly, opportunities exist working for domestic customers in the expanding field of house interiors. This may include the restoration and/or maintenance of historically important buildings as part of a team of architects/designers.

Retail outlets selling furnishings, wallpapers, paints, etc. employ in-house designers/customer advisers, although the route into these positions is sometimes via the sales floor and not through formal qualifications in interior design.

Sources of vacancies

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• Design Week
• Designers Business Agency
• Careers in Design
• Adrem
• Network Design
• Architects' Journal
• Architectural Review
• Campaign.

Useful directories include:

• New Design Partners
• Directory of Design Consultants
• Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) .

Design directories help identify design companies to target with a speculative CV or personal call. Some of the larger recruitment agencies also handle vacancies.

See also job hunting tips and applications, CVs and interviews.

AGCAS

Written by Wendy Reed, AGCAS

Last updated:

October 2008

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