Final Major Project
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
Your Final Major Project unit is the culmination of your studies and will form a framework for the design knowledge and practical skills and concept you have acquired throughout the whole of your BA (Hons) Design course, with the special contribution of all the previous units from Stage 3.
Teacher: Abhishek Chatterjee, Design Tutor
Design Management
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
Design Management pays particular attention to the creative processes and advises on the multidisciplinary process that you have already been developing. It explores the identification of strategic objectives in brand, product and service development, in the management of creative businesses.
Teacher: Abhishek Chatterjee, Design Tutor
Branding
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
The unit is aimed at developing branding related design and communication skills, covering key stages of brand identity exploration.
Teacher: Design Tutor
Entrepreneurship
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
The unit adopts an experimental approach to developing new patterns of production and distribution, as well as creating and communicating business ideas that are able to mix innovation design, business strategizing and leveraging of modern technology.
Teacher: Abhishek Chatterjee, Design Tutor
Innovation and Design
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
The Innovation and Design unit builds on knowledge and skills previously acquired at levels 4 and 5 to consider the development of new ideas for the design and development of contemporary practice for the 21st Century, thus consolidating subject maturation and practice and contributing directly to the Final Major Project unit.
Teacher: Abhishek Chatterjee, Design Tutor
Environmental Design and Sustainability
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
The main purpose of this unit is to inform you about the ecological factors, which are transversal to all branches of design but mainly to the industrial branch.
Teacher: Abhishek Chatterjee, Design Tutor
Design Lab D
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
This unit is oriented towards developing applied skills in product and spatial design. It encourages you to synthesise and apply your knowledge and practical skills acquired in units such as Product Design, 3D Design, Ergonomics, and Spatial Design.
Spatial Design
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
This unit deals with the technical and artistic methods of representing spaces rather than objects. Spatial design gives you an insight into how to combine the design of spaces and their surfaces using both digital and manual methods of representation.
Ergonomics
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
The main aims of this unit are: to provide a theoretical viewpoint of the concept of Ergonomics; illustrate its significance and applicability to contemporary design and showcase its prevalence in day-to-day processes and interactions; and explain related concepts such as universal design, inclusive design, and accessibility that have together led to the evolution of the field and extended its interpretation to the digital dimension.
3D Design
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
This is a project-based unit that covers modern tools and methods for 3D design and development.
Product Design
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
This unit will introduce you to the principles of Product Design and will provide you with skills to develop successful commercial and non-commercial products, while at the same time identifying the role of creative experimentation and critical evaluation.
Design Lab C
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
The aim of this Lab is to enable you to develop a practical approach by addressing the challenges of creating an engaging narrative and applying relevant principles of storytelling and interaction design.
Moving Image
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
This unit is dedicated to providing you with a well-rounded approach to moving image
production theory and practice. It will enable you to consider and create moving image
projects for commercial or artistic purposes, understanding the history and context of this
activity.
Multimedia Methods
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
This unit will provide you the tools necessary for a broader critical and theoretical awareness of multimedia objects in contemporary culture and you will learn how to integrate and produce visual elements for digital content.
2D Design
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
This unit will give you the creative and technical skills you need to work in the expanded fields of digital 2D drawing with a synergy between theory and practice.
Design Interactions
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
This unit gives the opportunity to acquire knowledge about the different techniques used in User Experience and Interface Design. It focuses on processes, best practices, design methodologies, acquiring knowledge in Figma software and introduction to design systems. At the end of the unit, you will have acquired user-centred design skills, from immersion to technical design.
Design Lab B
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
The Design Lab B will run across the whole of term 2 and is dedicated to developing applied skills in Graphic and Communication Design.
Typography Design
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
This unit discusses how the visual manipulation of words can bring great insight into text functions, enhance clarity and produce impressive visual communication. Students will learn the fundamentals of typography such as typographic elements and principles and how to use them effectively and creatively. The unit will also visually explore ideas through projects embracing typography as both information and art — that complements other learnings from the term, such as on visual discourses and forms generative resources for the BA design program as a whole.
Science Applied to Design
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
The aim of this unit is to provide you with basic theory and knowledge applied to 21st century design. The unit is taught thematically and will enable you to interpret phenomena, languages, technologies and measuring tools, which are useful to the integration of design thinking.
Digital Drawing
Course categorySpring Intake: APR 24 BAD
This unit aims to introduce you to the use of digital graphic tools and software that support the visual Design process. It aims to provide an understanding of the connection and transition between manual and digital drawing and to enable creative expression in digital drawing through the use of different techniques.