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OCA Interior Design: Interior Spatial Design Creative Workshop June 2026 thumb

OCA Interior Design: Interior Spatial Design Creative Workshop June 2026

In June 2026 Interior Designs’ Programme Tutor and Programme Leader, Sam and Catherine, spent a day with Sixth Form students at Barnsley College, facilitating an Interior Spatial Design creative workshop. 35 A Level Art students took part in the day-long event, joining in with loads of enthusiasm and making spatial interventions that impressed us no end!

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Choosing the right OCA course for you 

Are you feeling stuck with choosing which course to apply for?  At OCA, we offer a wide range of courses to suit different interests, and choosing  the right one when you apply can sometimes feel daunting.  Consider what you love: what is it that you will look forward to studying in depth? You might feel that you already have a strong understanding of the career path and subject you wish to focus on, but at this stage of study it can also be difficult to pinpoint exactly what you wish to specialise in.  

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OCA Interior Design: Gingerbread City, London, December 2024 thumb

OCA Interior Design: Gingerbread City, London, December 2024

You might make and decorate a gingerbread house at Christmas time, but could you make a whole city? Gingerbread City is an exhibition of just that—a city made from decorated gingerbread. It might seem irrelevant to those studying interior design and something more like a children’s holiday activity, but this gingerbread city is made by very experienced design professionals, and the annual competition is taken very seriously!

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Textiles: In conversation with designer Caroline Cox thumb

Textiles: In conversation with designer Caroline Cox

Caroline Cox is a printed textile designer, designing for space and interiors.

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Colour, form & composition

In this article you will find four exciting textiles artists where colour, form and composition take an important place within their work.

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Health and design

When we think of graphic design, the seductive packaging and branding of high street communications or the entertaining and eye catching gloss of the media might spring to mind. Graphic design helps to organise information, stamp identities onto objects and parcel up messages that are easy for us to access. While the majority of graphic […]

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