Design Crafts

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BA /MDes

DESIGN CRAFTS

Design Crafts gives you the opportunity to learn the design and creative 3D making skills you need to work professionally with Glass, Ceramics and Jewellery. Allowing you to discover your creative voice whilst developing traditional hand-making skills and contemporary approaches such as laser, waterjet cutting and 3D printing. This broad programme offers the opportunity to work with specialist materials or enjoy a mixed media approach to craft.

The degree offers you a host of exciting opportunities to work on live briefs and take part in placements with industry partners from the worlds of interior design, the gallery sector and architecture. Our teaching team of professional practitioners, with extensive networks of industry contacts, will support your future career and professional development beyond graduation. Our excellent specialist equipment and facilities for glass, ceramics and jewellery, includes glass cutting, painting and leading rooms, unique acid etching facilites, ceramics studio and kiln rooms in both glass and ceramics, throwing wheels and a fully fitted jewellery workshop. These are supported by an array of general and digital workshops, giving you the opportunity to explore, ideas through materials and making. The course also offers individual desk space in our vibrant creative studios.

Graduates from our Design Craft course will develop strong creative, problem-solving, design and making skills which can be applied to a wide range of employment opportunities, from self-employment (as independent artists, designers and makers) through to working for established companies in a variety of roles.

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For a closer look at the great work from this course, see pages: 72, 90, 112 185