Welcome from 3D Design at the University of Plymouth, currently based in Exeter, is moving to a prestigious New Art Building in Plymouth to start in Sept 2007. We offer both BA undergraduate and MA postgraduate degrees. Our BA (Hons) degree courses suitable for students from Foundation, A Levels (from both Art and Design Technology), Progression from HND courses, Mature and Overseas, and 2 postgraduate Masters Degrees in Design and Designer Maker starting Sept 2007. Plymouth is one of the UK's most prominent and dynamic universities and is consistently ranked among top three modern design universities. Our students give us excellent feedback, and we are renowned for the quality of time we spend with them. We are committed to provide highest quality of teaching and research and has performed very well in all teaching reviews carried out by external bodies ... any of our courses were awarded highest ratings and 50% of our research were judged as showing international excellence.

The Guardian placed Plymouth's Art and Design courses above many of the best universities like Kingston, Central St Martin's, Manchester, Bournemouth, West of England UWE, Swansea, Southampton, Cardiff UWIC, and Portsmouth ... With over 27,000 students, 3000 staffs and an annual income of ?10 million, Plymouth is amongst the largest of the UK universities, offering a comprehensive range of academic programmes at undergraduate, postgraduate and research level. We welcome international students from over 120 different countries and has an International office with a specialist team of experts who can assist and support you before and after your arrival. Our students come from as far as Newcastle, Manchester, Cardiff, Swansea, Brighton, Bournemouth, London, Japan, Italy, Romania, Hong Kong and the US. We work in close partnership with 16 FE colleges, 2 HE colleges and with several establishments throughout the UK's south-west peninsula.

The University of Plymouth is consistently ranked as one of the top five modern universities in the UK and is a national leader for teaching excellence. This achievement has helped it to secure an extra ?3 million in funding over the next five years. It is one of only two universities to have been awarded seven prestigious National Teaching Fellowships and also demonstrates research of both national and international excellence. With around 30,000 students (including those who study at partner FE colleges within the University of Plymouth Colleges faculty) it is one of the largest universities in the UK, and proud to retain its reputation for friendliness. With a track record of 'widening participation', business partnerships and vocational courses, it has a high rate of graduate employment and is committed to improving the student experience, demonstrated by significant investment in new facilities. And the surfing is great!

Subject Summary 3D Design We are a growing and well-established department, within the School of Architecture and Design. Our students are taught by leading practitioners in specialised fields who contribute nationally and internationally to design practice and design issues. How a designer thinks and acts are crucial tools in the design world. Design equips students to make the most of their ideas in a progressive and inspiring way. Whatever your abilities are, the course makes the most of your potential and translates this into creative process. The course is run over three years and is progressive, through each year and fun. We use a range of materials and technologies in relationship to making. Our working environment is in studios and workshops situated with a new and exciting purpose built building in Plymouth. You can either enter the course specifically to specialism or enter to the general award; the process remains flexible and is determined by your needs.

Special Features We create products, furniture, environments, interiors, single unique objects, ceramics and ideas. Our staff offer regular contact hours with students and relish constructive debate. We offer an ever growing international exchange programme for level two and throughout all levels cultural field trips are undertaken. Our students are highly visible in the media and continue to make a huge impact on the design community. Their work is, insightful, material conscious, informed by current technologies and above all, useful. We offer four main routes to undergraduate study, Product Design, Spatial Design (Furniture and Interiors) and Designer Maker, Combined 3D Design.

BA 3D Design Degrees We deliver a comprehensive design education, developing your creativity, cultural awareness and career opportunities. We help you explore all 3 disciplines during Year 1 before you decide, or if you want to cover all areas, you can combine multidisciplinary skills and do a combined 3D Design degree. You will meet many of our exchange students and maybe go on one yourself - to Italy, India, Japan, or Romania ... We help you become more creative placing you in a real life open design studio, giving you your own personal work space, creating good teams, helping you to think in new ways, and letting your design culture inspire you. This means that your designs are fresh, innovative, witty and you develop your own identity, which is important for your career. You have the chance to show your work to the public at our 2nd Year Public Show, Final Degree Show, Crafts at Bovey Tracey, Eco Design Fair, New Designers in London. After you graduate we stay in touch and our students show at international exhibitions like Milan, Design Miami, 100% Design East, Talent Zone, Designers' Block, Chelsea Crafts Fair, Hidden Art, Somerset Arts week, Top Drawer, 100 Devon Potters ... We help to feature you in articles and TV interviews on Sky, FX, Icon, Blueprint, BBC, Guardian, Scotsman ... We partner you with like minded designers like Batch, Udder, Beef Design, Plymouthing ... We put you in touch with manufacturers like Saxum, Dartington, Suck UK ... And welcome you our new MA Masters degrees ... This means that you are not alone and have a much better chance of success. Above all, we enjoy ourselves.

BA Product Design Degree Product Design deals with the tangible experience of seeing, desiring, obtaining, and using a product, ultimately defining the consumer's emotional connection to the object. Through creative and analytical processes, designers determine the aesthetic and functional characteristics of a product. Specific skills and techniques are adopted to help identify new opportunities for innovation, design excellence, brand and visual identity. Should you be a Product Designer? Product Design provides you with skills to turn your ideas into real products, which are a pleasure to use. We teach design so that you can create delightful and rewarding experiences. And we have unique methods to help you identify opportunities for innovative new ideas, and play with aesthetics, functions and visual identities. Graduates from our course are working at major design consultancies, as well as in-house designers, and doing postgraduate research.

BA Spatial Design (Furniture and Interiors) Degree Furniture and Interior Design reflects the emerging collaborative and interdisciplinary practice of design, crossing the boundaries of interior design, architecture, art, engineering and furniture. Skills are developed to create innovative, practical and contemporary spaces whilst gaining a hands-on understanding of material, processes and construction methods through making. Is Furniture and Interiors for you? Furniture and Interiors is a unique course which crosses the boundaries of interior design, landscapes, architecture, art, engineering and furniture. We designed this course because it is what a modern design practice needs: collaborative and interdisciplinary teamwork. We help you create innovative contemporary spaces by making sure that you understand materials, processes and construction methods. We challenge you to be innovative so that you can develop pioneering schemes. We aim high, so as to prepare you to follow rewarding careers with the creative disciplines from architecture to furniture to environments.

BA Designer Makers Degree Through an understanding of materials and making processes, Designermakers are encouraged to develop individual pathways and philosophies that respond and contribute to contemporary life. Material and craft skills are not seen as an end in themselves, but are integrated into broader exploration of design ideas, to problem-solve and communicate through a developed individual language. Should you be a Designer Maker? If you like exploring ideas, and creating desirable objects, then the Designer Maker course may suit you. We teach you about materials so that you can explore how they behave, and about processes so you know how to get things made in small batches. We encourage you to develop your thinking,and work with you to discover your strengths so that you can develop your own identity. We help you with business skills or to join a postgraduate course when you finish. Many of our graduates have set up their own workshops, or are working with major design studios and manufacturers.

Design Culture runs throughout the 3 years of all 3 disciplines. A range of research methods and critical standpoints are introduced and practised with a view to informing and defining your practice. You develop critical, historical and cultural awareness and the ability to identify, select and use appropriate research methodologies. An emphasis is placed on experimentation, which can be enligthening, useful and above all fun. Design Culture makes the connection between your culture and what you design.

MA Design Products is a leading edge programme detailed for the demands of the today's creative industries. MA Design offers IDEO's world-class design-innovation programme that is focused, comprehensive and relevant to industry. Students undertake a series of assignments to develop an area of interest or particular direction they wish their careers to follow. We welcome proposals from students with good university degrees and others with professional experience.

Master of Research: Design Thinking is unique to Plymouth University and is designed with the contemporary issues at its core. MA by Research (Design Thinking) will allow students to reflect upon, and gain a deeper understanding of design theory and practice. Students will be encouraged to test out ideas and be aware of the implications of design in a wider historical and contemporary perspective. We welcome proposals from those with a design/design history background and those linked to business.

Master of Arts: Contemporary Designer Maker The South West offers huge potential for Designer Makers and this MA seeks to capitalise and utilise these strengths. This exciting new MA provides an opportunity for individuals to develop design ideas through an intimate knowledge of materials and making processes. Through experimentation, research and innovation, process and content are considered as interdependent and mutually enriching within a global context. We welcomed proposals from students with good university degrees or equivalent professional experience.

Exchange Programmes We also promote Exchange Programmes with other universities in Europe, Japan, USA and India. These provide great opportunities to experience, learn and share from a diversity of cultures. All our students who take up this opportunitiy feel that it is an invaluable experience and a great mechanism to develop creativity.

Digital Practice Digital Practice is a critical element to 3D design. We offer 2d and 3D computer drawing and modelling in a wide range of software packages including Solid Works, 3D Studio Max, Form Z, Microstation, Vectorworks and AutoCAD. Also available to support CAD development is our 'Fused Deposition Modelling' Rapid Prototyping machine based at Innovate. This provides students with perfect models generated from digital databases or our new digitising scribe device.

New Arts Building The New Arts Building is a fantastic opportunity to place 3D design at the centre of university life, moving from our satellite in Exeter to Plymouth in 2007. The vision for the new building is to create a centre for arts and culture, fusing both city and university as a hub for activity and learning. The building will take a key role in promoting exchange and interaction between different study subjects, providing a showcase for the university campus. We hope that you time of study here will be happy, challenging, rewarding and fun.

Plymouth Graduate Robert Phillips BA (Hons) says: "After graduating from Plymouth, I set up a studio in Brighton with two furniture makers. We got involved in various exhibitions, whilstê?
?being able to freelance within the field of product design. This led me to the sale of a patent, Arts Council projects and continuing my studies at the Royal College of Art (Design Products). I am now running my studio in Brighton alongside my studies and I have been working for companies including, DMR (mountain bike components), D3o (materials company), Unilever and others."

2005 Graduate Oliver Blackwell BA (Hons): "I am now a Product Design Engineer working on a unique (and still confidential) Power-Assisted Suitcase for a new company near London. This job relies on a thorough understanding of how things work and how they are made. Plymouth gave me grounding which has been central to my design process. Designers that come out of Plymouth often have far more to offer, because of the variety of options and teaching scope available to them. Soon, I am off to China to source the next generation of products."

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You can choose from two versions of our software. Google SketchUp is free for anyone, and allows you to build, view and edit 3D models. Google SketchUp Pro adds the ability to share your data with other software, get email technical support, and create professional presentations??
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