Product Design BA (Hons) The University for the Creative Arts

Overview

The Product Design BA (Hons) degree at The University for the Creative Arts Canterbury develops your creative practice through hands-on making, critical thinking and design insight.

Product Design is about more than the object itself. It's about understanding how the object fits into the bigger picture when considering environment, technology, sustainability, cost, and value. We'll encourage you to think about the lifecycle and impact of your work from day one of your Product Design degree. The course will also give you the opportunity to explore how products shape - and are shaped - by the people who use them.

Key Features

• Your studio sits right next door to the workshop and you’ll move constantly between designing and making, testing ideas physically within minutes of having them. Laser cutting, CNC milling, wood, metal, plastics, casting, 3D printing – it's all here, and it's yours to use.

• In the second year of your Product Design degree, your projects shift from personal exploration to professional application. Working with UN Sustainability Goals, live competition briefs, and industry partners, you'll learn to apply your design thinking to problems that can make a difference to the world.

• The best product designers don't follow formulas. Over three years of relentless experimentation on this Product Design course – trying, breaking, discovering – you'll develop a creative intuition that lets you see solutions others miss. That's a skill that will convert client pitches, win awards, and make you impossible to ignore.
• One student spent weeks in the photography darkroom and came back with a completely new direction for their project. Another collected coffee grounds and ended up winning the Andersen EV competition at London Design Week 2024, with their bio-resin product. With small groups and huge facilities, you’ve got the space and freedom to follow your curiosity – wherever it leads.