Product and Furniture Design with Foundation

About this course

Product and furniture design is the discipline concerned with shaping the physical objects that people use, inhabit, and live alongside. It asks how everyday things, from chairs and tables to electronic devices and domestic goods, can be made better: more functional, more beautiful, more honest in their use of materials, and more mindful of the people who will use them and the environments they will occupy. The field sits at the intersection of engineering thinking and creative practice, and the best designers move fluently between making, drawing, researching, and testing their ideas in the real world. The four-year full-time Product and Furniture Design with Foundation programme at the University of Plymouth is designed for students who want to enter this field but whose current qualifications or experience take a non-standard form. The foundation year allows you to develop the practi

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 40% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 72 / 100Information Technology Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 65 / 100Web and Multimedia Design Professionals · 20% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Sales occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Science, engineering and technology associate professionals · 5% of graduatescards →

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