3d Design Crafts Mealabrook High School
Top 5
Guardian University League Tables 2022 (Design and Crafts)
Work on client-led briefs
Past clients: Marks & Spencer Homeware, Sainsbury's Home, KMF, Royal Doulton and Wedgwood
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Visit Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Stockholm, and New York
Top 5
Guardian University League Tables 2022 (Design and Crafts)
Work on client-led briefs
Past clients: Marks & Spencer Homeware, Sainsbury's Home, KMF, Royal Doulton and Wedgwood
Explore
Visit Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Stockholm, and New York
Develop your passion for designing and making innovative and contemporary objects using a diverse range of materials, skills & techniques taught with high levels of craftsmanship.
Our BA (Hons) 3D Designer Maker programme will give you the chance to design and make your ideas through a broad range of materials with an exciting emphasis on experimentation in making innovative objects through industrial processes with high levels of craftsmanship, giving you the chance to become a more informed contemporary maker.
If you have a passion for designing and making contemporary interior products, such as furniture and lighting, ceramics and jewellery, this is the course for you.
This course will not only enable you to DESIGN innovative objects but also MAKE your ideas through taught skills gaining high levels in craftsmanship.
Learn the essential skills needed to survive in the 'real world' by undertaking live, external client-led briefs with the likes of Marks & Spencer Homeware, SCP, Sainsbury's Home, KMF, Royal Doulton and Wedgwood to prepare you for a career as an independent designer maker or a designer in industry.
Our students have achieved success in competitions including New Designers, Franz, M&S Homeware and more.
You'll get to experience a breadth of materials and highly crafted skills through our 3D wood, metal and ceramics workshops, before specialising in interior products, jewellery, ceramics or digital craft.
You could also use your skills to set up your own businesses as a designer maker. Many of our self-employed graduates have been featured in nationally recognised magazines such as Crafts, Elle Decoration and Craftsman Magazine. Others have gained employment with The Crafts Council, Marks and Spencer Homeware, Sainsbury's Home and Wedgwood.
This course enables you to explore ideas through a range of taught craft practice and design processes. There's a strong emphasis on experimentation with materials and contemporary approaches to making innovative objects. There is also an opportunity to gain a substantial work placement with companies such as Wedgwood and Royal Doulton not just in the area of ceramics.
Our Award Winning creative team of professional makers and technicians will support you throughout. You'll gain practical knowledge and a repertoire of skills, developing your understanding of the designers' essential toolkit as well as contemporary techniques and processes which reflect current trends and practices in an ever-changing world of the designer maker. Workshops cover:
- Wood – traditional wood working machines as well as CNC machining
- Ceramics – industry leading ceramic facilities; throwing, hand building, slip casting, jigger jolly, glaze labs and kiln rooms
- Resin, plastics and fibreglass facilities
- Fine Metal, Heavy Metal & Precision Metal
- Digital Imaging Skills (to work software packages such as Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator
As well as access to our £1.3 million Smart Zone where you can access laser cutters, 3D printing in clay and metal, 3D scanning and VR.
Our 3D Designer Maker degree allows you to specialise in: Ceramics, Interior Products such as Furniture or Lighting, Contemporary Jewellery/Wearables or Digital Craft.
Our BA (Hons) 3D Designer Maker programme will give you the chance to design and make your ideas through a broad range of materials with an exciting emphasis on experimentation in making innovative objects through industrial processes with high levels of craftsmanship, giving you the chance to become a more informed contemporary maker.
If you have a passion for designing and making contemporary interior products, such as furniture and lighting, ceramics and jewellery, this is the course for you.
This course will not only enable you to DESIGN innovative objects but also MAKE your ideas through taught skills gaining high levels in craftsmanship.
Learn the essential skills needed to survive in the 'real world' by undertaking live, external client-led briefs with the likes of Marks & Spencer Homeware, SCP, Sainsbury's Home, KMF, Royal Doulton and Wedgwood to prepare you for a career as an independent designer maker or a designer in industry.
Our students have achieved success in competitions including New Designers, Franz, M&S Homeware and more.
You'll get to experience a breadth of materials and highly crafted skills through our 3D wood, metal and ceramics workshops, before specialising in interior products, jewellery, ceramics or digital craft.
You could also use your skills to set up your own businesses as a designer maker. Many of our self-employed graduates have been featured in nationally recognised magazines such as Crafts, Elle Decoration and Craftsman Magazine. Others have gained employment with The Crafts Council, Marks and Spencer Homeware, Sainsbury's Home and Wedgwood.
This course enables you to explore ideas through a range of taught craft practice and design processes. There's a strong emphasis on experimentation with materials and contemporary approaches to making innovative objects. There is also an opportunity to gain a substantial work placement with companies such as Wedgwood and Royal Doulton not just in the area of ceramics.
Our Award Winning creative team of professional makers and technicians will support you throughout. You'll gain practical knowledge and a repertoire of skills, developing your understanding of the designers' essential toolkit as well as contemporary techniques and processes which reflect current trends and practices in an ever-changing world of the designer maker. Workshops cover:
- Wood – traditional wood working machines as well as CNC machining
- Ceramics – industry leading ceramic facilities; throwing, hand building, slip casting, jigger jolly, glaze labs and kiln rooms
- Resin, plastics and fibreglass facilities
- Fine Metal, Heavy Metal & Precision Metal
- Digital Imaging Skills (to work software packages such as Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator
As well as access to our £1.3 million Smart Zone where you can access laser cutters, 3D printing in clay and metal, 3D scanning and VR.
Our 3D Designer Maker degree allows you to specialise in: Ceramics, Interior Products such as Furniture or Lighting, Contemporary Jewellery/Wearables or Digital Craft.
On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: BA (Hons) 3D Designer Maker
On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: BA (Hons) 3D Designer Maker
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Course content
Working in your own dedicated studio area, with access to a broad range of workshop facilities, you will get the chance to experiment with a variety of cross-disciplinary materials as well as digital technologies. You will learn practical techniques and processes through hands-on technical demonstrations, gaining high levels of craftsmanship.
In your first year, you will develop your specialist knowledge across materials in ceramics, wood, metals and plastics. This will enable you to become a more informed contemporary maker and someone who can use specialist skills professionally and effectively, with an emphasis on high class skills in practical making, experimentation and craftsmanship. This course will enable you to create innovative design solutions and develop your ability to contextualise your design practice within a global arena.
In your second year, you will develop your own voice specialising in: Ceramics, Interior Products, Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories or Digital Craft where you can build independent professional working practices, take on increasing responsibilities for your own creative journey and undertake 'live' briefs with companies such as SCP, Sainsbury's Home, Goldsmiths, Marks and Spencer Home, Portmeirion, Royal Doulton and Wedgwood. There is also an opportunity to gain a substantial work placement.
In your third year, you'll consolidate your knowledge and skills to produce your final exhibition pieces. Alongside your studio work, you will gain an insight into design futures/ business set-up and branding yourself ready for the world of work.
With your final year projects, you are encouraged to generate innovative objects for the contemporary design arena. This culminates with our annual degree show exhibition (Show and Tell) for academic, public and professional audiences at the end of year. Selected students are also given the opportunity to exhibit work at New Designers in London.
Working in your own dedicated studio area, with access to a broad range of workshop facilities, you will get the chance to experiment with a variety of cross-disciplinary materials as well as digital technologies. You will learn practical techniques and processes through hands-on technical demonstrations, gaining high levels of craftsmanship.
In your first year, you will develop your specialist knowledge across materials in ceramics, wood, metals and plastics. This will enable you to become a more informed contemporary maker and someone who can use specialist skills professionally and effectively, with an emphasis on high class skills in practical making, experimentation and craftsmanship. This course will enable you to create innovative design solutions and develop your ability to contextualise your design practice within a global arena.
In your second year, you will develop your own voice specialising in: Ceramics, Interior Products, Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories or Digital Craft where you can build independent professional working practices, take on increasing responsibilities for your own creative journey and undertake 'live' briefs with companies such as SCP, Sainsbury's Home, Goldsmiths, Marks and Spencer Home, Portmeirion, Royal Doulton and Wedgwood. There is also an opportunity to gain a substantial work placement.
In your third year, you'll consolidate your knowledge and skills to produce your final exhibition pieces. Alongside your studio work, you will gain an insight into design futures/ business set-up and branding yourself ready for the world of work.
With your final year projects, you are encouraged to generate innovative objects for the contemporary design arena. This culminates with our annual degree show exhibition (Show and Tell) for academic, public and professional audiences at the end of year. Selected students are also given the opportunity to exhibit work at New Designers in London.
Academic year
The course operates on a modular basis that provides flexibility and choice. Typically the majority of modules are 30 academic credits with a smaller number of 15 credit modules. Each credit taken equates to a total study time of around 10 hours. Total study time includes scheduled teaching, independent study and assessment activity. Full-time students take modules worth 60 credits per semester, with part-time students taking proportionately fewer credits per semester. All students take a total of 120 credits per level and 360 credits for the degree as a whole. Your overall grade for the course and your degree classification are based on the marks obtained for modules taken at levels 5 and 6. The full-time course has one start point in September.
The course operates on a modular basis that provides flexibility and choice. Typically the majority of modules are 30 academic credits with a smaller number of 15 credit modules. Each credit taken equates to a total study time of around 10 hours. Total study time includes scheduled teaching, independent study and assessment activity. Full-time students take modules worth 60 credits per semester, with part-time students taking proportionately fewer credits per semester. All students take a total of 120 credits per level and 360 credits for the degree as a whole. Your overall grade for the course and your degree classification are based on the marks obtained for modules taken at levels 5 and 6. The full-time course has one start point in September.
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Modules
The tables provide an indicative list of the modules that make up the course for the current academic year. Each module is worth a specified number of credits. Our teaching is informed by research, and modules change periodically to reflect developments in the discipline. We aim to ensure that all modules run as scheduled. If for any reason a module cannot be run we will advise you as soon as possible and will provide guidance on selecting an appropriate alternative module.
| Year 1 compulsory modules | |
|---|---|
| 3D Design- Integrating Theory And Practice | 45 credits |
| Material Enquiry: Form And Surface | 15 credits |
| Material Investigation And Design History | 45 credits |
| Visual Studies | 15 credits |
| Year 2 compulsory modules | |
|---|---|
| Design, Make, Manufacture | 45 credits |
| Designer / Maker In Context | 45 credits |
| Digital Design And Proto-Typing | 15 credits |
| Professional Practice | 15 credits |
| Year 3 compulsory modules | |
|---|---|
| Contextualising Practice | 45 credits |
| Design Futures | 15 credits |
| Research, Analysis And Communication Assignment | 15 credits |
| Synthesis And Resolution | 45 credits |