Rita Nicolas provides portfolio guidance to prospective undergraduate and graduate students planning to study in the UAE or anywhere else in the world. This special mentoring class will help you produce and compile your best works while developing your skills in perspective, drawing, composition, color, observation, and medium. With expert guidance from Rita, an experienced designer and architect, you will smartly build your portfolio with notable accomplishments, hobbies, and talents that holistically represent your profile. Portfolio counseling includes (but is not limited to) design disciplines: Architecture, Interior Design, Fashion Design, Jewelry Design, Styling for TV, Photography, Digital CLO3D, Fine Arts (such as painting ; illustration), Perspectives, Sketches, Landscape.

Course Outline:

WEEK 1: The Heart of Interior Design

 Essence of interior design

 Technical facets of interior design

 What is a plan and how to read it

 What is a facade and how to interpret it

 What are elevation and perspective

WEEK 2: Hands-On Learning

 How to use a scale ruler

 How to take a measurement in reality

 Practicing the architecture rules

 How to organize & bend spaces to your needs

 Applying acquired knowledge to toilet & kitchen plans in real-life (scenario simulation)

 Using trial & error process

WEEK 3: Creativity

 Design for a studio room with perspective approach.

WEEK 4: Technical (Deep)

 Assessing the materials

 Learning the axonometric

 Evaluating creative approach of the studio (based on the new knowledge)

WEEK 5: Technical (Forward)

 Architecture tools & how to use them: Limier, scale ruler and architect ruler

 How to employ strict measurement to develop a bedroom design

 Review your own homes

WEEK 6: Design Real-life Plans

 Designing a reception room from A to Z

 Utilizing the measurements and drawing plans, elevations, and perspective

 Real-life design examples

We offer a longer duration for a more comprehensive lesson:

15 hours = 2100 dhs

18 hours = 2530 dhs

30 hours = 4200 dhs

36 hours = 5040 dhs

and longer durations:

70 hours

80 hours

108 hours

126 hours

For big groups, we offer special prices. Message us for more information!