Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Design Crafts

Program Description

Design Crafts is a multi-disciplinary crafts course where you design and make objects using both traditional and emerging technologies. You can experiment with a variety of materials such as hot glass, textiles, plaster, paper, glass, clay, fine metals, plastics, resin and wood.

This course attracts students who have an ambition to develop their own personal Design Crafts practice, often with interests in entrepreneurship and a desire to determine their own creative future. During the course we enable students to develop their passion for making and to establish a personal, creative voice through a range of challenging projects.

Students and staff in Design Crafts produce a wide range of objects including; individual artefacts for galleries and to commission, small batches of similar items, limited editions, public installations and designs for industry for example. Bespoke objects are produced for domestic, interior spaces, exterior spaces, worn by the body, and can be hand-held or large-scale sculptural pieces. This reflects the range of careers accessible within the field of Design Crafts; including craftsperson, jeweller, ceramicist, textile artist, designer-maker, glass artist, designer, researcher, consultant, curator, buyer, stylist and educator.

You will have the opportunity for a meaningful international experience as part of your studies through DMU Global and there is an annual school-wide study trip abroad.

Reasons to study Design Crafts degree at De Montfort University:

• Professional practice modules are embedded throughout the course to develop your employability skills and prepare you for a career in design crafts
• Excellent workshop facilities and dedicated studio space for ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, textiles, glass, wood, engineering, hot glass and glass blowing
• Develop your entrepreneurial skills  by promoting and selling your own products at public exhibitions
• 100% overall student satisfaction with the quality of the course and its organisation according to the National Student Survey, 2019
• 100% of our Design Crafts graduates from summer 2017 are in work or further study after graduating, according to the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) 2016-17 report
• Establish your own creative voice through completing a range of challenging design projects
• The new Vijay Patel building has been designed to provide the space and facilities where ideas can develop and flourish for all our art and design courses
• Core workshop materials available at no cost to our students along with some programme-specific workshop materials
• Cash awards of £150, £200 and £300 for students in years one, two and three respectively, towards materials and specialist printing