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BA (Hons)
Undergraduate degree - single honours
We accept a wide range of qualifications for entry to our undergraduate programmes. The main ones are listed under 'Typical offers' in the main column below. For combined courses, please check both subjects. If your qualification is not listed, please email admissions@bathspa.ac.uk with your specific details.
Want a career in design? If you're motivated by making, this innovative product and furniture design course is for you.
Taught by industry professionals, BA (Hons) Product and Furniture Design enables you to build a foundation of technical and manufacture processes in digital making, CAD and traditional materials. You'll develop your individual creative vision through purposeful briefs, materials and scales.
Essential professional skills and entrepreneurship are at the heart of the curriculum, providing you with new opportunities as a designer in a sustainable, digital and global economy. You’ll become a flexible problem-solver and expert collaborator who can respond to issues across disciplines.
See what we're making on Instagram: @product_bathschoolofdesign and @bathschoolofdesign
The preliminary and intensive Integrated Foundation in Art and Design is designed to develop your ideas, skills and confidence in readiness for progressing to year one of your degree programme.
This year provides you with the opportunity to identify, apply for, and secure professional experience, normally comprising one to three placements over a minimum of nine months. Successful completion of this module will demonstrate your ability to secure and sustain graduate-level employment.
By completing the module, you'll be entitled to the addition of 'with Professional Placement Year' to your degree title.
Before your Professional Placement Year, you'll work to secure your placement, constructing a development plan with your module leader and your placement coordinator from our Careers and Employability team.
On your return to University for your final year, you'll submit your Placement Portfolio, detailing your development on your placement, for assessment.
As a student on our Product and Furniture Design course you’ll become a creative and versatile designer, able to develop your ideas into resolved high quality outcomes.
You’ll learn to think critically about use and construction and to innovate through material experimentation. Working across digital making and CAD design as well as more traditional 3D design processes in wood, metal, plastic and ceramics, you’ll develop a strong foundation of making knowledge with excellent technical support. We’ll strive to equip you with the necessary production knowledge, contextual understanding, research, communication and problem-solving skills for your emerging career.
This furniture design course addresses the future of design and manufacturing, and embeds an approach that incorporates maker culture, additive manufacture, localised lower volume production, and new platforms for selling products in global markets, such as crowdfunding.
Year one
You’ll develop a foundation of core making processes (digital and analogue), material knowledge and experimentation. You’ll acquire skills in design communication, visualisation, research and prototyping, and develop your understanding of production volume (i.e. batch to industrial production).
In addition, you’ll gain the key skills needed for future employment in the design industry and learn about critical issues in contemporary design.
Year two
You’ll focus on external engagement with industry, deepen your understanding of the forms of design practice and opportunities available, and start to identify your personal direction in design. External briefs and study visits provide direct engagement with the design industry, and ensure you explore design innovation with a global outlook. Entrepreneurial approaches to design will be supported, and you’ll gain valuable experience of collaboration and project management.
Year three
You’ll practise, develop, challenge and explore design in preparation for establishing your career. You’ll deepen your understanding of your field of practice and position in it. Your final contextual study will underpin your practice and critical thinking. You’ll start developing professional networks and produce products, portfolios and promotional material. Part-way through the year, you’ll present your work through a public platform.
The final personal project challenges you to create a professional level of design work to present to an external audience.
Assessment is 100% based on coursework, presented at the end of the module. You’ll receive formal feedback so you’ll know how to improve or develop your work. Throughout the module you'll receive feedback from tutors and peers.
This course offers or includes the following modules. The modules you take will depend on your pathway or course combination (if applicable) as well as any optional or open modules chosen. Please check the programme document (below the main image on this page) for more information.
Modules for the integrated Foundation year option are listed on the Integrated Foundation Year for Art and Design page.
Overseas exchanges (for example to the School of Form in Poznan, Poland and NABA in Milan, Italy) offer further opportunities to develop your global industry awareness.
We emphasise external engagement throughout the course. International design-led companies such as Herman Miller and Dyson, as well as small enterprises and designer-makers, have a strong presence in the region. We run regular live industry projects, and previous clients have included:
You'll also have the option to undertake a one-year Professional Placement Year, and you'll graduate with a strong portfolio of projects and experience.
Many of our graduates have worked for a range of national and global design and manufacturing companies, contemporary designers and design marketing agencies. Others have freelanced, put their own designs into production, and exhibited internationally.
We’ve made some changes to how we deliver our courses in response to the ongoing COVID situation. This is to enable students to get the most out of their studies and university experience and to facilitate an engaging, participative and interactive learning environment, all while keeping our community safe.
We keep our programmes under constant review, and we’ll make sure to let applicants know if there are significant changes to your programme. You can find out more about how the University has adapted its approach on our COVID advice pages, where you’ll also find support and signposting to useful services.
As a BA Product and Furniture Design student, you’ll benefit from access to comprehensive digital workshops and specialist art and design facilities, including:
Locksbrook Campus is a Grade II listed building designed by Nicholas Grimshaw in 1976. It has now been transformed into an innovative, open plan space, redesigned to meet 21st century environmental standards, with technical workshops surrounded by flexible studio spaces and large social areas.
Locksbrook has received both a RIBA South West Award 2021 and RIBA National Award 2021, recognising and celebrating what an amazingly inspirational space it is to come together to design, make, do, create and learn in.
Please note: Students from the EU, EEA and Switzerland are not generally eligible for the UK (Home) fee status. Please refer to the international student rate. Irish citizens and those granted Settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme are eligible for UK (Home) fee status. There are also other circumstances where this may apply: See UKCISA for more information.
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During the placement year, the fee is reduced to 20% of the full time fee. Otherwise, fees are the same as for full time study. This applies to UK, EU and International students.
We look for applicants who are energetic, committed and passionate about design, making and material, and curious about the made world and how design can influence how we live.
We accept a wide range of qualifications for entry to our undergraduate programmes. The main ones are listed below:
English Language Requirements for International and EU Applicants
IELTS 6.0 - for visa nationals, with a minimum score of IELTS 5.5 in each element.
Course enquiries
For further information about the programme or entry requirements, please email us at admissions@bathspa.ac.uk.
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Applicants will be invited to interview at our Locksbrook campus and will be required to submit a high-quality portfolio in support of their application. More details will be supplied to applicants who meet the entry criteria for the course.
Course contact: Julia Keyte
Email: j.keyte@bathspa.ac.uk
"BA (Hons) Product and Furniture Design" is a name revision to the programme currently running as BA (Hons) "Furniture and Product Design."
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