Product and Furniture Design BA (Hons)

De Montfort University

Bachelor's degree

In Leicester

£ 7,920.59 VAT inc.

*Indicative price

Original amount in EUR:

9,250 €

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Leicester

  • Duration

    3 Years

This Product and Furniture Design course will encourage you to make bold challenges to convention. You’ll study the functional and market-led requirements of product and furniture design, usability, manufacturing and aesthetics.

Specific areas include visual language, branding, user-centred design, computer-aided design (CAD), 3D design and modelling, and design cultures. You’ll learn about sustainability and examine the development of socially conscious products that, through their technical specification, reduce waste and conserve energy.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Leicester (Leicestershire)
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The Gateway, LE1 9BH

Start date

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About this course

Our graduates have gone on to work in a variety of areas within industrial product design including marketing, industrial design consultancy, user experience consultancy and project planning, product design and furniture design. Recent employers include Jaguar Land Rover, Mamas & Papas, Sixteen3 and Vax.

A good portfolio and normally:

Art and Design Foundation or
112 points from at least 2 A-levels and including grade C in Art and Design or
BTEC Extended Diploma DMM in an Art and Design related subject or
International Baccalaureate: 26+ Points including Art and Design

Institution of Engineering Designers (IED)

Key features

Our course is accredited by the Institution of Engineering Designers – this enables you to work towards membership.
Gain professional experience with placement opportunities that have seen our students work at renowned names such as Marshalls Street Furniture, BMW and Howdens.
We’ll champion your ideas and support you as you pursue opportunities to strengthen your portfolio and grow your confidence by entering national and international competitions. Our students have won prestigious prizes from Seymourpowell and the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
The award-winning Vijay Patel Building provides both the space and the facilities to foster creative thinking. You will have access to workshops focusing on wood, metal and plastics, utilising facilities including the newest innovations in additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping equipment
Our graduates have gone on to work for a wide range of companies, including Jaguar Land Rover, Mamas & Papas, Ponti Design Studio and Mous.
We provide core workshop materials at no cost, and give cash awards – £150, £200 and £300 in years one, two and three respectively – to support personal materials/printing costs.*

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Subjects

  • Aesthetics
  • Engineering
  • School
  • International
  • Materials
  • Staff
  • Design
  • Furniture Design
  • Project
  • Communication Training
  • CAD

Course programme

First year
  • The Principles of Design
  • CAD for Product Designers 1
  • Visual Communication
  • Design for Manufacture
  • Design Cultures 1
  • Workshop Practice
Second year
  • Design Practise 2
  • CAD for Product Designers 2
  • Advanced Visual Communication
  • Advanced Design for Manufacture
  • Design Cultures 2
Third year
  • Product Communication and Career Launch Marketing
  • Product Design - Personal Project
  • Product Design - Student Design Competitions
Teaching and assessments

Overview

The curriculum is focussed on vocational skills and intellectual development – encompassing a broad range of content from manufacturing to aesthetics. Coursework is the main method of learning and assessment which is monitored on a regular basis via a formal tutorial system.

You are taught by design academics and visiting design consultants with specialist knowledge and skills in either product or furniture design. All our staff have worked in industry and carry out commercial activity and leading research. Visiting lecturers support week-long projects or run weekly seminars, tutorials or lecture series. Previous visiting lecturers include Steve Mosley (Mosley&), Ryan Helps (Empathic), and designers and model makers from Redline Studios.

Product and Furniture Design students have won many major awards in recent years including the prestigious RSA Student Design Awards, the Alexander Rose Student Design Awards and the Habitat Furniture Design Award.

You will have the opportunity to enter live competitions with industry partners (previous competition briefs run with Seymourpowell, Willis & Gambier and Made in Mind) plus national and international design competitions.

Contact hours

You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, group work and self-directed study. Assessment is through coursework (presentations, essays and reports) Your precise timetable will depend on the optional modules you choose to take, however, in your first year you will normally attend around 13 hours of timetabled taught sessions (lectures and tutorials) each week, and we expect you to undertake at least 26 further hours of independent study to complete project work and research.

Additional information

UCAS course code: W293

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Product and Furniture Design BA (Hons)

£ 7,920.59 VAT inc.

*Indicative price

Original amount in EUR:

9,250 €

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