Product Design

Develop your creative skills and professional practice. You'll work with industry clients to design products that make a difference.

Develop your skills in product design and professional practice.

As part of this course, you’ll:

• Gain insight into user requirements, economic, environmental and ethical considerations, as well as materials, manufacturing, production and industry capabilities

• Use your insights to help inform the design of your products

• Design a range of products for both commercial and domestic use, including furniture, interior products, consumer goods and sustainable products

• Work on live industry briefs, which will ensure you’ll be working in real world settings to design products that make a positive contribution to the world around us

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Our students and graduates
Our students have designed for Tommee Tippee, Lego, Nestle, Asda, High Tech Lighting and TRIG Creative amongst many others. Ed Barber of BarberOsgerby, designers of the Olympic Torch, is a graduate of this course.

Specialist facilities
Our design studios provide you with a flexible working space, with computers integrated into the working environment. A textile space is also nestled next to a lecture area with digital projection equipment.

Guest Lectures
Lecturers from a range of design disciplines will visit throughout your course to talk about their own practice and run workshops. In your final year you’ll display your project work at our Degree Show, held in our award-winning Broadcasting Place - an event which attracts interest from artists and industry professionals.

We often run a number of guest lectures and workshops throughout the year, both on campus and in conjunction with external organisations. The INSIDE/OUT lecture series brings together some of the most exciting names from the fields of art, architecture, design, fashion, film, music, performing arts and beyond. You can catch up on previous lectures by visiting the Leeds Arts Research Centre site.

Why study Product Design at Leeds Beckett University...

• 100% of students on BA (Hons) Product Design were positive about the way teaching staff explain things*

• Tutors with extensive professional experience and networks

• Opportunity to take a ‘sandwich’ year – a year of paid employment in industry which will build your skills and experience

• Study within one of the largest university arts communities in the north, with 3000 students spread across over 40 courses

• Leeds' thriving creative sector has countless opportunities for product designers on our doorstep

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