Art and Design Courses at UK Universities
Design involves understanding humans and problems, innovation and communication through the language of mechanical engineering, graphic design or human behaviour. For those looking for graduate studies in design, there are a number of excellent UK universities that will help change fantastic design ideas into real-world designs. Here are just some of the universities offering design courses:
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The Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Foundation Diploma covers art, communication and design. The course provides the opportunity to try different art and design disciplines and helps build a portfolio for application to an undergraduate course within UAL or beyond. If you want to specialise, there is are specialist courses including design for theatre; screen and performance; textile craft; 3D, Product and Spatial Design. At undergraduate level, there are four BA (Hons) design courses on offer from the prestigious UAL
- Ceramic Design at Central Saint Martins which provides a design-led creative experience of ceramics within a broad subject context
- Product Design at Central Saint Martins generates creative, commercially relevant work and is highly commended.
- Product and Furniture Design at Chelsea College of Arts offers students the chance to explore the emotional connection we have to objects.
- Design for Branded Spaces at the London College of Communication is a new course with a strong focus on interactive branded spaces enhanced by digital technologies.
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Ravensbourne University London is a digital media and design university, with vocational courses in fashion, television and broadcasting, interactive product design, architecture and environment design, graphic design, animation, moving image, music production for media and sound design. Ravensbourne offers an Art & Design summer school for those aged 13 to 16 years of age. For those who want to take on an undergraduate course, there are many options, including:
- BA (Hons) Advertising and Brand Design
- BA (Hons) Advertising and Brand Design students design Thames Skills Academy recruitment campaign
- BA (Hons) Games Design
- BA (Hons) Graphic Design
- BA (Hons) Interior Design Environment Architectures
- BA (Hons) Music and Sound Design
- BA (Hons) Product Design
- BA (Hons) User-Experience and User-Interface (UX / UI) Design
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Loughborough Design School is an internationally renowned school. The School brings together a number of areas of design through its undergraduate and postgraduate courses, research and enterprise activities. All expertise and teaching are built on the design principles of aesthetics, technology and understanding the user. The School is proud to be nurturing a vibrant, innovative and creative community of 100 staff and 700 students.
There are three undergraduate courses that teach the skills and understanding to develop and communicate design ideas effectively - all while factoring in the ergonomics of usability and interaction, product styling, three-dimensional designing and the production and use of prototypes as a key part of design practice. The courses are:
- Industrial Design and Technology BA (Hons) degree
- Product Design and Technology BSc (Hons)
- User Centred Design BSc (Hons)
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Nottingham Trent University has an internationally-recognised reputation for the high quality of our Art and Design education provision, due to the combination of a great environment and a dedicated, innovative and professional academic staff. There are a number of art and design undergraduate courses available including:
- BA (Hons) Fashion Knitwear Design and Knitted Textiles
- BA (Hons) Textile Design
- BA (Hons) Graphic Design
- BA (Hons) Photography
- BA (Hons) Animation
- BA (Hons) Filmmaking
- BA (Hons) Costume Design and Making
- BA (Hons) Design for Film and Television
- BA (Hons) Theatre Design
- BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design
- BA (Hons) Furniture and Product Design
- BA (Hons) Product Design
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Kingston School of Art has long been recognised as one of the best art and design schools in teaching and research in Europe and across the world. This is shown in subject rankings, research, performance, industry and student awards, and the leading brands and institutions that choose to work with them. Kingston's workshops are both very impressive and inspirational, a world-class design facility buzzing with creative energy and technical verve, making it the ideal environment to inspire and train the next generation of designers with skills for the future.
BA (Hons) design courses include:
- Art & Design History and Practice
- Creative and Cultural Industries: Design Marketing
- Graphic Design
- Illustration Animation
- Interior Design
- Furniture and Product Design
