Furniture and Product Design, BA (Hons), with industry placement

Discover creativity in our Furniture and Product Design course, where you craft innovative products for diverse markets, balancing commercial and conceptual approaches. Through a hands-on, empirical method emphasizing design via making, experiment with materials and processes. Explore function, form, and our relationships with everyday objects, while building skills in sketching, model-making, and prototyping. Address ethical design, evolving lifestyles, consumer choices, and novel production techniques via live projects and optional year-long industry placements.Graduates emerge as unique talents—freelancers, roles at Habitat, John Lewis, DFS, and The Design Council, or designer-makers, journalists, and curators. Accredited by the Chartered Society of Designers (free student membership), the course offers professional workshops (3D printers, water-jet cutters, wood/metal/concrete), collaborations with John Lewis and others, exhibitions at New Designers, and top rankings: NTU top 15 for Art & Design (Complete University Guide 2025) and 2nd most sustainable globally (UI GreenMetric 2024).