Furniture Design with Sandwich Placement

Bachelor's degree

In Telford

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Telford

  • Duration

    4 Years

BDes (Hons) Furniture Design excels in encouraging you to develop your own ideas and innovative concepts for furniture through our professionally-focussed design course. The course delivers a commercial understanding and awareness of current furniture design practice in aesthetics, design innovation, leading edge technologies, industrial practice, human factors and sustainability. Manufacturing and craft remains central to our design process and our team of enthusiastic, highly experienced staff are active in commercial design industry. This course offers you a highly creative environment in which to develop your ideas. It provides you with opportunities for future careers in the creative industries across national and international markets.

All courses in the School of Art are now available with a professional placement option (Sandwich Year). A professional placement provides an opportunity for professional development in the work place and as such, greatly enhances the student’s prospects of finding rewarding and relevant employment at the end of their studies. The school assists students in securing work placements, undertaking live briefs, engaging directly with employers and developing key employability skills. The School is committed to raising student awareness of the opportunities that exist post-graduation.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Telford (Shropshire)
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Level 3 Southwater One, Southwater Sqare, Southwater Way, TF3 4JG

Start date

On request

About this course

The course delivers a commercial understanding and awareness of current furniture design practice in aesthetics, design innovation, leading edge technologies, industrial practice, human factors and sustainability. Manufacturing and craft remains central to our design process and our team of enthusiastic, highly experienced staff are active in commercial design industry. This course offers you a highly creative environment in which to develop your ideas. It provides you with opportunities for future careers in the creative industries across national and international markets.
Preparing our students for work and employability is one of the main aims of the course. This is reflected in the practical nature of the course as a whole with learning activities that are designed to ensure that our students are well prepared by the time they graduate. The opportunities that exist for graduates studying Furniture Design are varied and extensive. This course prepares students for employment working with national and international companies.

2019 Entry

BBC from ‘A’ levels
BTEC QCF Extended Diploma grade DMM; BTEC QCF Diploma grade D*D*
UAL Extended Diploma in Art & Design grade M
Foundation Studies (Art & Design and Art) grade D
Successful completion of a Foundation Course in Art and Design
Access to HE Diploma full award (Pass of 60 credits - of which a minimum of 45 credits must be at level 3 including 18 at Merit or Distinction)
If you've got other qualifications or relevant experience, please contact The Gateway for further advice before applying. their career development. These applicants will be processed...

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Subjects

  • Aesthetics
  • Team Training
  • Employability
  • Industry
  • School
  • International
  • Art
  • Furniture Design
  • Innovation
  • Design
  • Staff

Course programme

BDes (Hons) Furniture Design excels in encouraging you to develop your own ideas and innovative concepts for furniture through our professionally-focussed design course. The course delivers a commercial understanding and awareness of current furniture design practice in aesthetics, design innovation, leading edge technologies, industrial practice, human factors and sustainability. Manufacturing and craft remains central to our design process and our team of enthusiastic, highly experienced staff are active in commercial design industry. This course offers you a highly creative environment in which to develop your ideas. It provides you with opportunities for future careers in the creative industries across national and international markets.

All courses in the School of Art are now available with a professional placement option (Sandwich Year). A professional placement provides an opportunity for professional development in the work place and as such, greatly enhances the student’s prospects of finding rewarding and relevant employment at the end of their studies. The school assists students in securing work placements, undertaking live briefs, engaging directly with employers and developing key employability skills. The School is committed to raising student awareness of the opportunities that exist post-graduation.

International students will need to apply for the BA (Hons) Fashion course with professional placement before joining the course to ensure visa requirements are met.

Why not check out what our students got up to for their final projects at our annual Degree Show 2018

Furniture Design with Sandwich Placement

Price on request