BA (Hons) Product and Furniture Design
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BA (Hons) Product & Furniture Design
Tutors: Jason Nicholson Natalie Cole Andrew Trujillo Jason Taylor Wayne Pottinger Brian Adams Dean Cain Chris Emmett William Wofford Richard Underhill Malcolm Hastings Nuno Lourinho Studio Mentor – Wendy Wen Studio Assistant – Alice Evans
This is the first graduating year of Product & Furniture Design and what a remarkable year it’s been (and a most unusual one!). One thing I’ve been impressed with, is the resilience and resolve of our students, continuing their studies in an incredibly professional manner and generating truly outstanding work. Their approach will prove to be an asset for future CV’s and portfolios and it’s certain that employers will be looking for graduates that demonstrated inventiveness, adaptability and initiative whilst making smart design decisions during this period of uncertainty. With the move to online learning from March, final projects have been developed and realised through a truly innovative use of media. Alongside all of the made objects produced during the year we’ve seen the virtual environment embraced with the generation of sophisticated and extremely well resolved final projects. The results have been incredible, and this has been an enormously successful end to 3 years hard work with our highest number of first-class honours, with 9 students achieving the highest classification. Our external examiner also commented that the work is of ‘the very highest standard’ and the Product & Furniture Design Course is ‘one of the best IF NOT the best course of its kind in the country’. This is a real testament to the continued hard work and effort of students across the course during this unusually eventful year. The output this year demonstrates the incredibly high standard of work from our students and the importance of product and furniture design in shaping the future. The course team and I are extremely proud
