Course General Description

Home Products Development explores the materials, manufacturing, merchandising, and marketing of the home products industry. Home products is a multibillion-dollar global industry that shapes the way we live in our homes. From the creative to the functional, this industry constantly translates ideas into products that drive the consumer market and transform the home environment. The Home Products Development major offers a project-based curriculum that addresses the contemporary realities of the home products industry and cultivates critical skills in the areas of emerging trends, product development, marketing, integrated business strategies, and presentation. Through hands-on projects and applied research, you will learn to put ideas into action and develop forward-thinking approaches in all aspects of home products. You’ll benefit from a small, collaborative academic environment with a high level of alumni and industry involvement. Visiting New York City showrooms and attending major trade shows, such as NY Now, NY Home Textile Market Week, NY Table Top, Highpoint Market, International Home & Housewares Show, and Maison et Objet, you’ll gain real industry experience in fostering your career.

School General Description

One of New York City’s premier public institutions, FIT is an internationally recognized college for design, fashion, art, communications, and business. We’re known for our rigorous, unique, and adaptable academic programming, experiential learning opportunities, academic and industry partnerships, and commitment to research, innovation, and entrepreneurship. While our pedagogical mission is to prepare our students for professional excellence in design and business, our broader ethos is to foster creativity, inspire leadership, impart a global perspective, and educate students to embrace inclusiveness, commit to sustainability, and engage with community. We encourage students, scholars, teachers, and industry colleagues to cross traditional boundaries of both geography and disciplines. Together we strive to develop innovative design and strategic business solutions that will upend the status quo, create personal and professional opportunity, and have a lasting and sustainable global impact.