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BA (Hons) 3D Design - Designer Maker
UCAS code: W250
Steam Bending
Lighting
Ceramics
Metal + concrete
CAD/CAM CNC small batch production
CAD/CAM, inspired by making wooden surfboards
"In our first year, we can work on all three disciplines of 3D Design before choosing to follow the Designer Maker route."
BA (Hons) 3D Design - Designer Maker
has a national reputation for producing graduates who are individual, informed and understand how to be successful Designer Makers in business.
It offers the opportunity for individuals to be the authors of their own artefacts whether for the one-off or multiple batch production.
Designer Makers are expected to develop a diverse knowledge and range of skills relevant to their studies; designing through making,
learning through making and creating important links between materials, process ideas and expression.
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.
Designer Makers Students wins major awards from:
The Royal Society of Arts
D&AD
The Devon Guild
New Designers
New Design Britain
Lighting Association
Real Sheepskin Association
Independent's Top 10 Sustainable Seating
Grand Designs Live product features
The New Forest Trust
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:
Lucy Turner | Simon Maidment | Stuart Melrose | Nick Fraser | Simon White | James Otter | Black & Blum | Blog UK | Tim Parsons
"The course helps us discover ourselves to develop our own styles and identities."
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Contact Prof Roberto Fraquelli, School of Architecture, Design & Environment, 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 23 Sep 2011
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