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BA (Hons) 3D Design - Product Designer
UCAS codes: W250
BiCycle
Social tandem bike inspired by Slow Design, by Lawrence Dawes now working at LEGO
Energy Saving Concrete Mixer
Durable vaneless mixing drum exploiting the Archimedes screw principle for super efficient mixing
WashDryIron
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Nestable Cocktail Trolleys
The concave sides mean that these trolleys can be creatively linked together (Emma is now studying postgraduate design).
"In our first year, we can work on all three disciplines of 3D Design before choosing to be a Product Designer."
BA (Hons) 3D Design: Product Designer
is traditionally about making products that are useable, useful and desirable.
If you want to turn your ideas into real products, to create delightful and rewarding experiences, then being a Product Designer may be your ideal career.
At Plymouth, we have also been developing Product Design in a number of new spin-off themes - into business as a tool for strategic development,
into technology as a tool for creating new experiences, and into social enterprise as a tool to generate responsible business ideas.
Product Design deals with ...
... the tangible experience of seeing, desiring, obtaining, and using a product, ultimately defining the consumer's emotional connection to the object.
Designers are creative and analytical, and have the power to lead the next generation of how things look, function and feel desirable.
We look for new opportunities for innovation, design excellence, brand and visual identity.
And we have fun doing it!
Product Design creates:
USEFUL products providing a benefit or solving a need.
USEABLE products that are intuitive to use.
DELIGHTFUL and rewarding experiences.
All 3D Designers are taught in a vibrant open studio, and are encouraged to tea work across all 3 years and disciplins.
Becoming a Product Designer
Our graduates are working at major consultancies, as in-house designers like Dyson and LEGO, in teaching, and in postgraduate research.
We established unique methodologies to help you identify opportunities for innovative ideas, play with aesthetics, functions and visual identities.
You develop skills with us that help you stand out from the crowd, and be more employable.
"Successful products today needs to be more than just good design; it should also arouse emotion."
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Contact Roy Tam, 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: roy.tam@plymouth.ac.uk
www.3Ddesign.org.uk
Updated 23 Sep 2011
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