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Product Design – (M.A.)
London Metropolitan University
Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,864 - ≈ € 12,239 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | London / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of London Metropolitan University
This intensive taught course helps design professionals and graduates to deepen skills and experience within the interior design and architectural industry, through the support of leading international contemporary designers and academics. The designer is expected to resolve the demands of market factors with functional performance and large or small production systems. Consideration is given to the increasingly interactive nature of products, advances in materials technology, global production systems, mass-customisation, inclusivity, sustainability and the ‘democratisation of luxury’.
The University's unique location on the edge of the City and the East End provides a dynamic and creative community. Our outstanding facilities include CNC, CAD and CAM for work in metal, wood and plastics, and extensive specialist workshops. Also in the University is Metropolitan Works, a unique centre that aims to help designers and manufacturers bring products to market through access to digital manufacturing, workshops, knowledge transfer, courses and exhibitions
Careers
The UK's leading careers website, prospects.ac.uk, states that over 50% of people in the design sector work in London. With the highest concentration of designers and related businesses in the world, our location offers opportunities for students and professionals to showcase cutting-edge design within related industries and venues. Through work placement and live project, you develop design projects that are commercially and creatively relevant for global consumer markets. Typical career opportunities include consultant designers, CEOs, in-house designers in manufacturing companies, bespoke designers within established product design companies, designers and/or makers of bespoke products, production facility managers/consultants, freelance designers for; multinational corporations, corporate/domestic clients, limited/batch/mass production markets within IDE, industrial design, engineering design, product design, design management and CRD.
Contents
The course includes seven core modules, live project work and design report development. Modules include:
* Design Research into Practice
* Digital Forming (optional)
* 3D Design (optional)
* Design for Production
* Design Tragets
* Visual Communication
* Exploring Practice
* Major Project
Assessment
You are supported through a 'laboratory' model of learning; developing innovative design, conceptual thinking, professional understanding and aesthetic sensitivity. You present design work and reports for assessment and exhibition throughout the course.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Successful applicants normally hold an Honours degree within design and have a relevant design portfolio. Those with relevant professional qualifications and/or extensive professional design experience will also be considered.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
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