Course General Description

Product and Furniture Design course explores designing and making the objects that surround us and shape the experience of our everyday lives. It seeks to capture insight into human nature and need, by producing objects that change expectation, offer deeper meaning and lift our sense of general wellbeing. Situated within a unique community of crafts and design, it is a hands-on course with proximity to exceptional making facilities including glass, ceramics, metalwork, woodwork, textiles and digital. You will discover the importance of the relationship between product and furniture and the spaces they occupy, working alongside our interior design cohort. The course will encourage you to become an intelligent problem-solver, with a curious outlook and a bold approach to how design can serve society both today and in the future. You will fully engage with the global environmental and responsible design agendas.

School General Description

The origin of the University for the Creative Arts lies in the establishment of various small art schools in the English counties of Kent and Surrey in the nineteenth century. In Kent the first of these was Maidstone College of Art, founded in 1867, and in Surrey the Guildford School of Art, founded in 1856. During the second half of the twentieth century many of these small art schools merged, eventually forming Kent Institute of Art & Design in 1987, and Surrey Institute of Art & Design in 1995. These two organisations joined forces in 2005 to become the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester. In May 2008 the University College for Creative Arts was granted full university status by the Privy Council, and adopted its current name, the University for the Creative Arts, officially in September 2008.