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MDes in Product Design (Full Time) MDes in Product Design (Full Time) Coventry University

Coventry University

Masters Degree , Product Design

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Course Description

This studio-based course will allow you to explore, create and develop the skills to design innovative products that deliver a rich experience to the user. You’ll have access to extensive specialist facilities and guidance from our experienced practitioners.

Coventry has taught product design for almost 30 years. We have excellent links with a wide range of local and international employers, such as Lego, Dyson, Cambridge Consultants, Kinneir Dufort, Jaguar Land Rover, Herman Miller, Aston Martin, Speedo, Electrolux, Reebok, DCA and Seymour Powell.

A recognised centre of excellence, the department of Industrial Design was awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education in 2008 and the Sir Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Education in 2007.

Course Content

Modules

  • Year one

Overview

The first year introduces you to the fundamentals of product design. You will learn both 2D and 3D design skills to represent your design intentions, including drawing for design and modelling in different materials.

We consider the impact of human factors, branding, design in context, design analysis and manufacturing. Sustainability is a theme throughout the course, we start by examining the impact of social, environmental and commercial issues around product design, and the possibilities presented by new technologies and future concepts.

Modules

  • Materials and Processes

  • Drawing and Visualisation

  • Model Making and Prototyping

  • professional Development 1

  • Human-centred Design

  • Brand Identity

  • Year two

Overview

During the second year, you will learn how to evaluate your work in relation to identified objectives, focusing on your own strengths and interests.

We will consider current issues in interior design, design history, branding and design for different market places. Industry-standard advanced 3D computing and animating of computer models is simultaneously studied and practised with free-form styling clay modelling.

Modules

  • Digital Visualisation

  • Research Informed Design

  • Creative Processes

  • Visual Brand Language

  • Design for Manufacture

  • Professional Development 2

  • Placement year

Overview

After your second year, you have an opportunity to take a sandwich year, studying abroad or on professional placement.

Past students have gained placements with Seymour Powell, Vax, PDD, JMDA, Cambridge Consultants, Design Works, PDG and 1HQ.

Modules

  • Study abroad or professional placement

  • Final year

Overview

The final year brings together your skills, knowledge and understanding to produce a professional portfolio and may include entry to a national design competition. Our 2016 graduate Chuko Cribb won the prestigious New Designers’ Kingfisher award for his urban spaces project, which incorporated a unique design to grow vegetables in a small space and using less water resources.

You will also undertake a major project and exhibit in our Degree Show. Past students have used placement experience with Adidas to design sports footwear, and experience with Vax to develop new concepts in air conditioning.

  • Professional Development 3
  • Design Competitions
  • Design for Interaction
  • Industry Project
  • Professional Experience
  • Additional year

Overview

Modules

  • MDes Final Year
  • Design Management
  • MDes Final Major Project Enquiry
  • MDes Final Major Project Ideation
  • MDes Final Major Project Development
  • MDes Final Major Project Delivery

 

Entry Requirements

A-Levels

A-Level applicants are required to have three? A2 Levels. Coventry University may include AS grades within an offer for certain courses, but we are not able to accept two AS Levels in place of one A2 Level. In some courses it may be necessary for entrants to have passed specific A2 Levels in nominated subjects. Please see the course pages for more information.

Access Diplomas

A pass in the Access Diploma. Plus GCSE English Language and Mathematics at grade A*-C, or specified equivalents.

Coventry University welcomes applicants who have completed, or who are studying, the Access to HE Diploma developed by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA). Successful completion of the course will require you to gain 60 credits with at least 45 to be achieved at Level 3 (with the remainder at Level 2). In some cases we will require you to have gained Merit or Distinction grades in a number of units or in nominated subjects. For more information on the entry requirements for your chosen course please see the relevant course pages.

BTEC Level 3 Diplomas

The University will accept the BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma for entry to most courses. In some cases we will require applicants to have studied either certain named modules or a specific named Diploma. The appropriate course page will have full information on the entry requirements. The University also accepts the BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma and BTEC Level 3 Diploma for entry to degree programmes, provided that they are studied in combination with other qualifications that provide a total volume of study that is equivalent to three A2 Levels. For example, you could be studying a BTEC Level 3 Diploma plus an A2 Level, or a BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma plus two A2 Levels. Where a specific A2 or BTEC subject is required for entry then you must be offering this as part of your combination of qualifications.

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