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Interior Design and Decoration: Resources

Find research help, creative inspiration, and ideas for the future direction of your career in interior design and decoration.

Best Databases

At Melbourne Polytechnic library

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At the State Library Victoria (SLV)

Membership with SLV is free. Simply sign up online to begin searching their huge collection right away.

LinkedIn Learning Courses

LinkedIn Learning is an online platform offering thousands of expert-led video courses to help you build professional, technical, and creative skills at your own pace.

Log in to your free account using your MP email address, or for more detailed instructions, check out our LinkedIn Learning library guide.

 

Suggested courses

Furniture Planning and Procurement (52m)

This course teaches you how to plan, procure, and manage furniture in architectural design projects, focusing on sustainable practices, effective communication, and working with project schedules and budgets.

Learn SketchUp Free (2h 34m)

A beginner-level course that introduces you to SketchUp Free, a browser-based 3D modelling and visualisation tool.

Residential Design and Visualisation (2h 42m)

An intermediate-level course that teaches you how to develop and present residential design concepts.

Flipster

Flipster is an online magazine viewing platform available to all Melbourne Polytechnic students. You can use it to view the latest issues of selected design magazines.

Logging in from home you may be asked to enter your MP username and password.

Here are some of the magazines/journals most relevant to Interior Design students.

Pages from the magazines can be downloaded as a pdf and then printed 

Top Design Journals

On the library shelf

On the library website