at the University of Plymouth

BA (Hons) degrees for:• Foundation• A Level• Progression and• Mature Students

Why Plymouth?

In 2004, The Guardian placed Plymouth’s Art & Design courses above many of the best universities like:

• Kingston• Central St Martin’s• Manchester Met• Bournemouth• West of England UWE• Swansea• Southampton• Cardiff UWIC• and Portsmouth

Source Guardian website

3D Design at Plymouth is:

1 Designer Maker2 Product Design3 Furniture & Interiors

We help you explore all 3 disciplines during Year 1 before you decide.

Or if you want to cover all areas, you can do a general 3D Design degree.

You will meet many of our exchange students and maybe go on one yourself - to Italy, Japan, Romania ...

Above all, we enjoy ourselves.

• placing you in a real life open design studio • giving you your own personal work space• creating good teams• helping you to think in new ways• and letting your design culture inspire you

This means that your designs are: • fresh • innovative • witty • and you develop your own identity, which is important for your career

We help you become more creative by:

• 2nd Year Show• Final Degree Show• New Designers in London

You have the chance to show your work to the public:

To invite you to show at international exhibitions:• Milan, 100% Design, Designers’ Block, Chelsea, Somerset Arts week, Top Drawer ...

To feature you in articles and TV interviews:• Sky, FX, Icon, Blueprint, BBC, Guardian, Scotsman ...

To partner you with like minded designers:• Batch, Udder, Beef Design, Plymouthing ...

To put you in touch with manufacturers:• Saxum, Dartington, Suck UK, Unilever ...

Or to welcome you our new MA Masters degrees ....

This means that you are not alone and have a much better chance of success.

After you graduate we stay in touch:

Should you be a Designer Maker ?

If you like exploring ideas, and creating desirable objects, then the Designer Maker course may suit you.

We teach you about materials so that you can explore how they behave, and about processes so you know how to get things made in small batches.

We encourage you to develop your thinking,and work with you to discover your strengthsso that you can develop your own identity.

We help you with business skills or to join a postgraduate course when you finish. Many of our graduates have set up their own workshops, or are working with major design studios and manufacturers.

A Designer Maker explores materials like:

• Wood • Metal • Plastics • Ceramics • or textiles, glass, laminates and boards • and we are keen on sustainability

We help you understand workshop processes like:

• metal bending and welding• wood machining and laminating• ceramics moulding and casting

So that you can create designs for:• lighting• furniture• tableware ...

Plymouth Graduate Robert Phillips BA (Hons):

“After graduating from Plymouth, I set up a studio in Brighton with two furniture makers. We got involved in various exhibitions, whilst being able to freelance within the field of product design.

This led me to the sale of a patent, Arts Council projects and continuing my studies at the Royal College of Art (Design Products).

I am now running my studio in Brighton alongside my studies and I have been working for companies including, DMR (mountain bike components), D3o (materials company), Unilever and others.”

Should you be a Product Designer ?

Product Design provides you with skills to turn your ideas into real products, which are a pleasure to use.

At Plymouth, we teach design so that you cancreate delightful and rewarding experiences.

And we have unique methods to help youidentify opportunities for innovative newideas, and play with aesthetics, functionsand visual identities.

Graduates from our course are working at major design consultancies, as well as in-house designers, and doing postgraduate research.

A Product Designer explores by:

• finding out what people want • designing new ways to make things work better • using new technology to create unique products • going on field trips with other 3D students • visiting design studios and exhibitions

And we want you to have fun doing it.

You can explore materials in our workshops like:

• plastics • metals • wood • textiles

So that you can chooseand specialise.

You can create professional quality presentationswith photography and graphics.

Sample digital design tools like:

• 2D graphics• 3D CAD• CNC subcontracting• and Rapid Prototyping ...

And use our rapid prototyping machine to ‘print’ your CAD design into 3D objects

2005 Graduate Oliver Blackwell BA (Hons):

“I am now a Product Design Engineer working on a unique (and still confidential) Power-Assisted Suitcase for a new company near London.

This job relies on a thorough understanding of how things work and how they are made.

Plymouth gave me grounding which has been central to my design process.

Designers that come out of Plymouth often have far more to offer, because of the variety of options and teaching scope available to them.

Soon, I am off to China to source the next generation of products.”

Is Furniture & Interiors for you?

Furniture & Interiors is a unique course which crosses the boundaries of interior design, landscapes, architecture, art, engineering and furniture.

We designed this course because it is what a modern design practice needs: collaborative and interdisciplinary teamwork.

We help you create innovative contemporary spaces by making sure that you understand materials, processes and construction methods.

We challenge you to be innovative so that you can develop pioneering schemes.

We aim high, so as to prepare you to follow rewarding careers with the creative disciplines from architecture to furniture to environments.

Why is Furniture & Interiors so popular?

We challenge you to innovate and develop new connections between furniture, objects, materials, structures and processes within internal and external spaces.

We help you develop skills to createinnovative and contemporary spacesby understanding materials,processes and constructionmethods.

You gain this experience byhands-on making in our workshopsas well as field trips and visits to studios.

This means that you are equipped to work within a broad range of professional fields to prepare you for careers within the creative disciplines, from architecture to furniture & environments.

You can explore materials in our workshops like:

• metals • concrete • wood • fabrics • glass

So that you can get the feel of these materials.

We help you develop good presentations

because most projects are too large to be made in full size.

To make sure that you know how they are built, we help you design and build prototypes detailing in full size, such as timber joints, window mountings or cable anchors.

Plymouth Graduate Daniel A Meyer BA (Hons):

“I enjoyed my time there because we were given the freedom to develop our own views, but at the same time there was an good level of guidance.

There also was a very friendly atmosphere. We had good access to our tutors, which is reflected in the high quality of work at the annual degree show.

Another factor influencing this positively is that the University is extremely well equipped both with facilities and expertise.

After graduating I worked for an organisation that provides disabled people with jobs in workshops. I looked at their capabilities and explored new markets for them. I then developed a strategy for a range of products for them to enter these new markets. I now work as a freelance consultant for them.

I have started an MA in Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins College in London and I am also working with a young design consultancy in Brighton.”

Teaching staff

Our team are both established practitioners and experienced educationists,as well as distinguished visiting lecturers,

These are characteristics that reflect a progressive modern university.

Through UCAS. You should normally have done A Level or Art & Design at foundation or similar level. Overseas and maturestudents are very welcome.

At the interview we take you for a tour around our studios,workshops, library, students’ bar and canteen. We chat to checkthat we are providing the right course for you, and talk aboutyour portfolio. It’s not like an exam and we hope you ask usmany questions. And you can talk to our students to findout what it’s like to be here.

Try and bring work in your portfolio which shows you exploring3D, with good quality sketches and any objects you have madeor photographs of them. As there is a broad range of interestswithin 3D, we are not looking for a ‘formula’ but somecurrent knowledge about design or craft is beneficial.

Don’t bring too much. Relax, show your best work first,and make us interested.

How do I apply?

Exciting new home for 3D Design

3D Design will be moving into a brand new building in Plymouth in 2007, designed by the Danish architects Henning-Larsen who have been responsible for many renowned buildings all over the world. The arts building is a fantastic opportunity to place 3D design at the centre of university life.

‘Rowe Street will become a lively, buzzing public venue, operating 24/7 and hosting public events organised by the Arts Centre, Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery as well as our own Peninsula Arts.'

And you will be the first to use these brand new facilities!

Visit our websites:

www.3Ddesign.org.ukabout what goes on at 3D Design Department

www.plymouth.ac.uk/arts/3Dabout the Faculty of Arts at University of Plymouth

Or contact:

Roberto FraquelliHead of 3D Design

T: +44 (0)1392 475 010F: +44 (0)1392 475 012

E: R.Fraquelli@plymouth.ac.uk

The Admissions OfficeT: +44 (0)1392 475 010F: +44 (0)1392 475 012

E: arts.admissions@plymouth.ac.uk

The Faculty of Arts, School of Architecture & Design, University of Plymouth, Earl Richards Road North, Exeter EX2 6AS, UK

3D Design at Plymouth .... Are you ready for it?

© Roy Tam, University of Plymouth 7 Nov 2005