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Designer Maker:
UCAS codes: W231 (route A) or E231 (route B)
Steam Bending
Lighting
Ceramics
Metal + concrete
CAD/CAM CNC small batch production
"It is so important that we discovered ourselves and be individuals with our own identities."
Designer Maker provides you ...
... the opportunity to explore ideas of making and authorship, through the creation of single unique objects or multiple production.
Through an understanding of materials and making processes, Designer Makers develop individual pathways
and philosophies that respond and contribute to contemporary life.
And we have fun doing it!
Designer Makers are:
INDIVIDUAL
INSPIRATIONAL
HANDS ON
You are taught in a vibrant Open Studio environment to use creative thinking to find the aesthetic and functional characteristics of a product.
Students Awards:
RSA Ceramics Future Design Award
Lighting Association Design Award
New Designers Real Sheepskin Award
Independent's Top 10 Sustainable Seating
Becoming a Designer Maker
We help you understand materials and teach you craft skills, but they are not seen as an end in themselves.
They are integrated into a broader understanding of design ideas, to problem solve and communicate through a developed individual language.
Whatever your direction, or emerging ideas, the application of your thinking will be, purposeful, useful, and inspirational.
Graduates from our course are running their own businesses, working at design consultancies, as in-house designers, doing teacher training and postgraduate research.
Examples of Designer Makers in business:
Simon Maidment | Stuart Melrose | Nick Fraser | Simon White | Saxum | Black & Blum | Blog UK | Tim Parsons
Ask a tutor ...
course details ...
career paths ...
Contact Roberto Fraquelli, School of Architecture & Design, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1752 585 170
Email: R.Fraquelli@plymouth.ac.uk
www.3Ddesign.org.uk
Updated 26 Sep 2008
Copyright Roy Tam 2006-8