BA (Hons) Product and Furniture Design at University of Plymouth

Course Details

Our course focuses on hands-on exploration and you’ll work with a range of materials, skills and processes to create expressive designs for products, services and artefacts to furniture, ceramics and lighting for both one-off craft or batch and mass production.You’ll explore emerging themes including business as a tool for strategic development, technology as a tool for creating new experiences and social enterprise as a tool to generate responsible business ideas.

We create confident and employable graduates able to work across the breadth of the design industry. You’ll develop a diverse knowledge and range of skills relevant to your studies; designing and learning through making and creating important links between materials, process ideas and expression.Through an understanding of materials and making processes, you’ll develop individual pathways and philosophies that create useful, useable designs that respond and contribute to contemporary life.

Key features

• Teaching is in small groups with the studio culture run like a design practice with innovative delivery including flipped classroom, podcasts and team teaching.

• Work alongside students from our Interior Design course in our vibrant studio with individual desk space and CAD stations.

• You’ll build up a portfolio with fresh projects starting every few weeks. Assessments are 100% coursework – so no exams.

• Culture trips to Europe and study exchanges in Japan, USA, India or Italy are also possible.

• Engage with real clients with live projects. We’ve recently run projects with Vitra, John Lewis, Red Paddle, UPP, architects Willmore Iles and Herman Millar.

• Gain valuable industry experience through our competitions, studio visits, visiting lecturers and our meet the supplier visits.

• BA (Hons) Product and Furniture Design is professionally accredited by the Chartered Society of Designers.

• The studio practice mirrors contemporary professional practice, helping you develop the skills and confidence to succeed in the job market.