Product Design – MDes

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Product Design – MDes

Sheffield Hallam University
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At a glance

Learn the research, design and development skills needed to develop new and original products for the marketplace. Throughout the course, you work on sponsored live briefs for well-known companies to build portfolio that will catch the eye of future employers.

Key points
• Learn the how to develop original products for small- and large-scale production.• Build up career-ready skills with sponsored briefs for well-known companies.
• Build relationships with internationally renowned companies such as Morphy Richards and Ideal Standard.

What is product design?
Product design combines art and technology to create solutions which improve our daily lives and create new opportunities for …

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At a glance

Learn the research, design and development skills needed to develop new and original products for the marketplace. Throughout the course, you work on sponsored live briefs for well-known companies to build portfolio that will catch the eye of future employers.

Key points
• Learn the how to develop original products for small- and large-scale production.• Build up career-ready skills with sponsored briefs for well-known companies.
• Build relationships with internationally renowned companies such as Morphy Richards and Ideal Standard.

What is product design?
Product design combines art and technology to create solutions which improve our daily lives and create new opportunities for industry.

This course

Learn to design products that are original, attractive, usable and functional. On this course, you gain the skills needed to produce imaginative design solutions for predominantly large-scale production. You also learn about the factors that make design rational, suitable for manufacture and affordable.

We help you to think like a designer, and develop the ability to design and present work to a professional standard. You gain skills in industry standard computer-aided design software that employers look for.

By developing your skills in research, design and development, you develop a clear understanding of social, market, technological and materials-based trends and of what products mean to users.

You also get to build up your industry knowledge by taking part in sponsored, live projects for well-known companies such as Morphy Richards and Ideal Standard. Throughout the course you’ll continue building a portfolio of work to start your career.

Our live projects and industry links help our students develop career opportunities by linking up with internationally renowned companies.

Year one includes projects focusing on • workshop, drawing and computer skills • contextual, business and marketing studies • manufacturing, technology and human factors.

Year two involves • live design projects • visual and presentation skills • product materials and manufacturing • an overseas study tour.

In year three you become more self directed, and complete a substantial major project which you choose yourself.

About the MDes
You graduate with a masters degree at the end of four years’ study. We run this course parallel to our BA (Honours) Product Design. The difference comes in the third year. From then the pace of work intensifies as you finish your undergraduate studies and prepare for your postgraduate studies.

On the MDes third and fourth years you learn professional research skills and build on your existing strengths through design projects. You also take your first steps in establishing your future career with either a flexible work placement or an academic exchange with one of our partner universities in Europe, Australia or North America.

Self-directed study forms a large part of your final year, and we support you through taught modules, culminating in a substantial major project.

Key areas of study
Key areas include • live design projects • computer-aided design • product materials • product manufacturing • business and marketing • research and development.

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