Product & Furniture Design BA
This course is a unique blend of creative thinking and expert making. It’s delivered by practicing designers and practice-based academics. We get our hands dirty working with new materials and processes, pushing our students to develop new products and services, reflecting contemporary design agendas. We work closely with the design community and major industry players on “live” industry projects. This gives students the opportunity to experience the real design world and all its’ challenges.
Our projects include new furniture, homewares, and consumer products. Industrial products and new technology concepts run alongside sustainable and social based design solutions.
The action of “making” is the signature of the course. Skills are nurtured over the three years and designs are developed and perfected through the construction of models, rigs, prototypes, and manufactured designs.
The course is supported by a large 3D workshop where expert technical help and full prototyping facilities are available to all students. The students are expected to be hands on, developing their own model prototypes and final designs.
Product & Furniture Design Kingston, Positioned Number 1 in the, Guardian University League Tables (Interior Design category), 2023.
Industry Partners:
Our Industry partners for 2022 2023 have included: Heals, The Robin & Lucienne Day Foundation, Magic (Italy) Notpla Packaging (Winners of the Earthshot Prize), Foster & Partners, Ercol, and Kettal (Spain)
We challenge the design status quo with fresh thinking and new eyes.
The diversity of projects this year ranges from social and environmental, experimental, and material to hard core commercial works.
Students graduate furnished with top commercial skills but more importantly an aptitude to shake up the world and challenge the future of our industry.
