Course summary

The BA Design and Materials (Level 6) course is there to enable you to find and start to establish your individual identity as a designer and maker and to help you locate yourself in the wider world of the creative industries in relevant ways. It is aimed at students who wish to further their development in areas including studio ceramics, jewellery, textiles, print and enamelling. The course is interdisciplinary in nature (enabling and encouraging you to work in more than one material or process area) and you will explore a range of media and processes to arrive at your own direction, articulating a distinctive individual and professional approach to the design and making of a range of resolved personal work. A lively and experimental approach is encouraged; practical workshops will allow you to explore and develop skills using a wide range of 2D and 3D materials, and digital media. It is regarded as critical to your development that you are free to move between areas and can seek out and devise your own means to combine materials and processes, as appropriate to your aims.  You will also be actively taking part in creative conversations and debates in the studio, in workplaces (visits and placements) and through our lecture and seminar programme. You will research, critically analyse and write about historical or contemporary theoretical and social contexts for design, materials and making in your dissertation. Professional organisations and contexts will be explored in relation to your own personal approach to creative thinking and the production of practical work. You will develop the professional and transferrable skills necessary to pursuing a career as a successful practitioner in the creative industries. You will develop strategies to promote your work and build a sustainable practice. You will participate in exhibitions and enterprises to build a professional network and to market your work. Part time routes are available. For more information, please email [email protected] GRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES: • Designer-makers • Applied artists • A career within the ever-expanding creative industries sector