3D Design and Craft
University of Brighton
UCAS Code: W240 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
University of Brighton
UCAS Code: W240 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Access to HE Diploma
Pass Access to HE Diploma with at least 45 credits at Level 3 of which 30 credits must be at Merit or above. Art and Design courses are preferred.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
Must include three subjects at Higher Level.
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)
or equivalent combination of grades.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
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About this course
This established design and making course allows you to create 3D objects and products that shape the world we live in.
You will be making furniture and lighting, jewellery and ceramics, applied art, sculpture and much more in our specialist wood, metals, ceramics and polymers workshops using digital technology. Your teaching team are designers, makers, artists and researchers with broad and diverse expertise.
For 50 years our graduates have progressed to life-long creative careers, pioneering new approaches to design. They work for brands such as Habitat, Nike and IKEA, exhibit at galleries including the Design Museum and MOMA and have launched companies including Smile Plastics and Gomi.
**TOP REASONS TO CHOOSE THIS COURSE**
- Excellent teaching team of practicing makers who encourage a diagnostic and investigative approach, which means you have the freedom to find your specialism and graduate with an impressive body of work.
- Dedicated, spacious workshops in wood, clay, metal and polymers with full-time technical support.
- Hands-on practice is integrated with historical and critical studies.
- Live projects and case studies mirror how you'll work in industry.
- Opportunities to exhibit your work, including the final-year major exhibition, the Graduate Show.
- Field trips and working outside the studio are an important part of the course.
- Student exchange opportunities with Nagoya University in Japan.
- Impressive alumni – our graduates work for brands such as Habitat, Nike and IKEA and run major design companies.
- Follow our course on Instagram: @3d.design.and.craft
Modules
Year 1
Making, Materiality and Processes
People, Places and Context
Why Make? What Sort of Maker Am I?
The Culture of Design and Craft
Year 2
Materials and Process: Professional Designing and Making
Making: Society, Economy and Environment
Live and Engaged Making
The Shape of Things: Design and Craft in Historical and Critical Perspective
Final year
Positioning and Establishing Practice
Expansion and Resolution of Practice
Extended Essay
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