Our MA in Product, Ceramics and Jewellery Design will actively support you in developing your visual design practice and knowledge at a professional level.

The course aims to situate your creative design practice within an innovative practice-based and entrepreneurial context, supporting you in achieving your onward career aspirations & personal creative interests, if working in a team or as a designer-maker.

The Product, Ceramics and Jewellery Design pathway within the Masters Programme is supported by subject specialist tutors who will help develop new design skills and technical skills needed to move your critical understanding and specialist knowledge forward, in order to follow a rewarding career as an independent designer in the following areas: Product Designer, 3D Ceramic or Jewellery Designer-maker.

The course is built around a personal design project, and the development of your professional practice, resulting in creative graduates who are critically and socially engaged, and independently capable of thriving in a variety of professional contexts.

Learning Methods

With access to dedicated studio space, support from dynamic and dedicated staff, the course provides a platform to move your practice forward, in an environment that encourages originality and independence. The main practice-based teaching strategies are delivered through:

• regular contact with MA Teaching staff and specialist subject tutor
• peer-to-peer group crits
• theoretical and entrepreneurial seminars & lectures
• visiting lectures by recognised researchers, artists & designers.