BA (Hons) Design
This degree allows you to develop strong design thinking whilst exploring your own creative focus. We encourage you to act through design to effect change, propose new visions of the future, and engage with sustainability.
Joseph Harrington, BA in Design
3 years full-time, with professional placement during Year 2.
W200
BBC or equivalent; see entrance requirements for alternative qualifications.
You need to demonstrate post-16 study in art and design (a Foundation course, vocational A-level or a related NVQ Level 3) or be a GCE A-level student with a strong art and design portfolio. Mature students without formal qualifications who have relevant work experience and/or art and design work are also welcomed.
At interview stage you will present a portfolio of work (including art and/or design pieces, sketch books and written assignments). You also submit a 200-word critical reflection on a piece of design of your choice.
29 May to 1 June 2009. See further information.
The Department of Design has a suite of general manufacturing workshops for modelling, making and rapid prototyping. There is a dedicated computing suite enabling 2D and 3D media, multimedia and computer-aided design. All students also have individual studio space.
Most of our graduates find employment in the creative and cultural industries, some in prestigious leading-edge companies such as Imagination, Coleman Planet, Raw, Medium Rare, Fitch and Pentagram. Some have progressed to become senior designers and design managers. Many have set up on their own as freelance designers, developing their own individual practice, and achieving national and international recognition. Our students and graduates have also been successful in national and international competitions. The most recent National Student Survey marked Goldsmiths undergraduate design students as the most employable in the country, with 98% securing a design-related job in their first year after graduation.
18 November 2009 and 25 November 2009, both starting at midday.
Please see Undergraduate tuition fees.
Design
Using an interdisciplinary approach to design learning, this degree allows you to develop your own creative approach to a multitude of design disciplines. The programme sets out to advance your ability to think creatively about the possibilities of design. You will be asked to engage with a diverse set of critical and practical ideas that will enable you to push traditional notions of design, including extending the practices in graphics, furniture, product, interaction, and multimedia design.
What you Study
Studio practice and contextual studies will encourage you to draw upon a wide range of creative and theoretical influences, including contemporary design practice, design and art theory, literature, sociology, philosophy, anthropology and material culture.
In Year 1 you will examine and question the dynamics between people, places and things in order to discover new forms of design. The briefs are designed to promote creative thinking, allowing you to develop your own approach to design. In contextual studies you will engage in theories and ideas around ecology, design history, psychology and semiotics. We will introduce some practical skills through Graphics, Image (photography), Textile and Making workshops.
In Year 2 you will engage with the responsibilities you have as a designer, including the dilemmas you may face when negotiating social, cultural, ecological and political terrain. Year 2 also acts to prepare you for your future career. Elements of your studio practice will be set by external design professionals and you will be asked to undertake a professional placement, where you work for one term within a design-related organisation. Students have worked with some notable companies and individuals on their placements, including Imagination, Pentagram, Droog, Studio Mariscal, Atelier van Lieshout, Denis Santachiara and Thomas Heatherwick Studio.
In Year 3 you will consolidate your design interests through a major project and contextual report. The year is dedicated to you understanding and positioning yourself as a designer. The year concludes with a degree show held in a top London venue.
Assessment: Studio practice projects (portfolio displays, presentations and crits); essays; reports and seminars; methods and processes portfolios; technical studies and journals.
Assessment
Studio practice projects (portfolio displays, presentations and crits); essays; reports and seminars; methods and processes portfolios; technical studies and journals.
Application enquiries
Please see how to apply for information on applying to this programme.
Equivalent GCE A-level qualifications
| BTEC National Diploma |
Access courses |
Scottish qualifications |
European Baccalaureate |
International Baccalaureate |
Other requirements |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DMM | 60 Credits including 45
at level 3 |
BBBCC (Higher)
BBC (Advanced Higher) |
65% | 6, 5, 5 at HL | Portfolio of work and 200 word piece of writing required |