
Product and Furniture Design BA (Hons)
Kingston UniversityKingston School of Art, Knights Park
Course overview
Join the next generation of creative thinkers and expert makers Kick-start your career in Product and Furniture Design. Throughout this course, you'll use our dedicated studio spaces and workshop facilities to experiment and explore new design concepts through making. You'll be encouraged to understand people’s changing needs and develop revolutionary new ideas and practical solutions.
You'll be introduced to live industry partners like Ercol, Foster & Partners, Sony, Heals, and John Lewis with briefs that challenge you to apply your ideas within the real market. We expect you to be open and free thinking ready to change the world. You'll develop expertise in forward thinking and develop an iterative design process.
Professional skills will be honed including presentation and communication methods, research, photography, filmmaking, CAD digital skills and software. Primary prototyping and workshop skills will be to the fore. Fashion, promotion and product design at Kingston School of Art Hear from our staff and students about the skills and experience you’ll gain from our fashion, promotion and product design courses.
Studying on the P&FD course has been a 360 degree turning experience for me as a person as well as a designer. They say you get out what you put in. When I think of those three years, with the outstanding team of academic and technical staff, the following also applies: be ready to absorb what you're about to be given.
This P&FD course is a meticulously-curated and carefully-guided adventure into the world of design and self discovery which I'd always recommend. Oksana Bondar, designer at BIOHM
Key highlights
- Live briefs with industry partners including Ercol, Foster & Partners and Sony
- Dedicated studio spaces and workshop facilities for design through making
- Strong focus on prototyping and hands-on workshop skills
- Training in CAD, digital software, photography and filmmaking
- Develops presentation, communication and research skills for professional practice
- Iterative design process centred on people's changing needs
Entry requirements
- UCAS tariff points: 112-128 — Text: Qualifications needed for 2027: Open UCAS tariff points: 112-128 The typical offer for this course is 112-128 UCAS points from Level 3 qualifications in Art & Design subjects. You could achieve this with: A-levels: BBC or A*CD
- A-level: BBC/A*CD — Text: Qualifications needed for 2027: Open UCAS tariff points: 112-128 The typical offer for this course is 112-128 UCAS points from Level 3 qualifications in Art & Design subjects. You could achieve this with: A-levels: BBC or A*CD
- BTEC: DMM — BTEC Extended Diploma: Distinction Merit Merit
- Other qualification — Foundation Diploma in Art and Design: Distinction
- Access to HE Diploma: Pass — 112 UCAS points, normally with 21 Distinctions, 21 Merits and 3 at Pass
- Additional condition: portfolio — Additional requirements for Product & Furniture Design BA (Hons): Open Please submit a portfolio in digital format, 15-20 pages in length.
- International Baccalaureate: 26-28 — IB Diploma: 26-28 points. The preferred route is to first take a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design or a recognised equivalent course. Please refer to the Foundation Diploma in Art, Design and Media Practice course page for further details how to apply and application deadlines. Additional requir…
Scholarships
Family Bursary
The family bursary is a 10% tuition fee discount for international students with a direct family connection.
Up to 10% of feesInternational Success Support Scholarship
The International Success Support Scholarship provides £2,500 towards tuition fees.
Up to £2,500Sanctuary Scholarships
Careers this course leads to
- Product designer
- Furniture designer
- Industrial designer
- Design maker
- CAD designer
- Prototype developer
Cost of study
UK/Home: £10,050 per year | International: £21,400 per year
Admission
Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to Kingston University, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.
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