The Shortage Of International Interior Designers

With the successful hosting of the Beijing Olympic Games and the success of Shanghai World Expo, all kinds of top international exhibitions and international famous enterprises are competing for landing in China. The market demand for interior design talents is constantly increasing. Coupled with the rapid development of the real estate market in recent years, the demand for interior designers in residential decoration and decoration industry has blowout effect. However, among the current personnel engaged in interior design, the international talents who are professionally trained are extremely scarce. The survey shows that at present, the gap of domestic designers is more than 400 thousand. In China, there are only about 30 thousand graduates in related majors each year, so the training of interior designers is far from meeting the needs of the market. Insiders say that for those cities that aim to become an international creative metropolis, they need a large number of internationally integrated interior design talents with creative ability and good practical experience.

Faced with the huge demand for internationalized talents, the graduates of interior design of the Donghua University Raffles International Design Institute are enjoying a lot in the competitive job market. Compared with other university related majors, Donghua Raffles has foreign experts and teachers with rich experience in international interior design. The whole English teaching environment can improve students' English ability in all aspects. At the same time, the college provides students with rich opportunities to participate in international design competitions, and to cooperate with enterprises in transnational enterprises. Through various colorful practical activities, students can cultivate their internationalized thinking mode and inspire more design inspiration. Thanks to its unique advantages from other university related specialties, Donghua Raffles has trained many international design talents with Chinese characteristics for the society, so that the whole world is excited by the works of our local designers.


Donghua Raffles interior design professional foreign experts teachers have rich international interior design industry background, their valuable work experience allows students to more intuitive and in-depth understanding of the interior design industry. Don Marchildon, the director of the interior design department of the star channel "magic space", has worked for two largest Asian construction companies for ten years before joining Raffles. He participated in the design and management of several major international design projects. He taught students in the world many years of experience as designers. At the same time, with extensive contacts in the industry, foreign teachers also provide many good employment channels for students. Many graduates have entered the well-known enterprises internship or employment under the recommendation of foreign teachers.

Fluent English has become a prerequisite for international talents. Good English skills can fully communicate with international customers and turn design concepts into reality. Raffles in Donghua adopts the whole foreign and English teaching mode to help students master English application ability in a short time. At the same time, by adopting the English Grading Test before entering the school, the college allows students to take part in the English intensive courses at corresponding levels. The College English teachers have TEFL or TESOL certificates, and have rich experience in teaching English. Some teachers are senior tutors in IELTS and TOEFL examinations. They can help students achieve 6 points in English in 2 years.

Some domestic interior design institutes pay much attention to software teaching, but neglect the cultivation of students' creativity and market acumen. A good interior designer should not only be able to skillfully use all kinds of design tools, but also have his own unique ideas and ideas. In order to cultivate a comprehensive and excellent interior design talent with excellent creative and practical experience, Raffles in Donghua pays attention to cultivating outstanding talents who meet the needs of the market through colorful extracurricular activities.

For students of interior design department, field visits to factories, exhibitions, shops and restaurants are one of the most important teaching methods. For instance, field trips to furniture, IKEA IKEA, Hang Lung Plaza and so on provide a lot of knowledge about current market prices, design and materials for Raffles students. The students said that they could learn more about the design styles of the most advanced technology and market, and help them understand, evaluate and verify different kinds of budgets, and provide customers with more cost saving solutions.

It is worth mentioning that the teachers of the interior design department also led students to travel in Italy, Turkey and Japan. Don Marchildon pointed out that "learning is not limited to the classroom. Organizing students to study abroad" can enable students to feel various classical design styles, experience multicultural backgrounds, achieve the level of integration between Chinese and Western cultures, and inspire students' minds through travel studies to help them achieve a leap from rational design to performance design. Raffles in Donghua encourages students to expand their horizons and create an innovative personal artistic style under the influence of internationalized education.

Donghua Raffles' interior design major has brought many excellent commercial interior designers, home interior designers and exhibition designers to many of the world's top 500 companies. At the same time, the Institute has used long-term cooperation with more than 500 well-known enterprises to provide students with internship and employment opportunities. Over the years, through a wide range of strategic school enterprise cooperation, students have set up a platform for training professional and technical capabilities, such as cooperation with Brick, Canada's largest home group, so as to lay a green channel for students' employment. This is an invaluable experience for students.

In addition, Raffles has encouraged and supported students to actively participate in various design competitions at home and abroad, trying to create opportunities and possibilities for display talents. Before the competition, the foreign teachers of the college will provide special guidance for each participating student, and give advice on the basis of the original temperament of the work. Over the years, with its international thinking and design ability and rich practical experience, students have been able to stand up and win in all kinds of professional competitions at home and abroad, such as the animal husbandry design competition, the Asia Pacific Interior Design Grand Prix, and the Andrew international design competition.

Thanks to the above school characteristics, Donghua Raffles has become the cradle of international excellent interior designers, and has been recognized and paid attention by many internationally renowned interior designers. Mrs. Henrietta Spencer Churchill, the descendant of the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the world-famous interior designer, visited Donghua Raffles during his visit to World Expo, Shanghai last year. During the period, Mrs. Churchill brought the pure noble design concept to the young designers of Raffles in Donghua, and expressed her great pleasure in inviting outstanding students to practice and work in her China branch. Donghua Raffles's excellent teaching and good reputation in the industry has enabled more and more overseas top ranking enterprises to see the outstanding international capabilities of Raffles students. I believe that the talent training mode of interior design professionals will lead more young people into the hall of interior design and help them in the starting stage of their career and stand at the high starting point of overseas famous enterprises, so as to realize the leap of high-end career and life.