BA (Hons) Product Design Bachelor's degree at East London

Develop the skills you need to confidently navigate your future career. You'll engage in real-world professional activities like networking simulations, mock interviews, and digital branding exercises, supported by industry guest speakers and career coaches. Practical sessions will sharpen your communication, research, and critical thinking abilities, while workshops will guide you in building a digital portfolio to strengthen your employability. Alongside hands-on experience, you'll map your ca

Build the academic and professional skills you need for success in the creative and technology industries. You'll develop key study techniques, including effective note-taking, research, academic writing, and digital communication. Through workshops, tutorials, and practical tasks, you'll boost your confidence as an independent learner and strengthen your ability to plan, organise, and deliver assignments. You'll also learn how to manage your time effectively, reference sources correctly, and ap

Strong numeracy and data-handling skills are vital in creative industries. In this module, you'll learn how to interpret graphs, solve problems using digital tools like spreadsheets, and present numerical information clearly. Practical exercises build your confidence with real-world scenarios, supporting your wider academic and professional development. By focusing on rational problem-solving and applied data skills, you'll strengthen your ability to work independently and collaboratively on fut

Understanding how media messages are created and interpreted is essential in today's digital world. This module introduces you to key frameworks for analysing visual media, while also building your ability to communicate ideas clearly and persuasively. You'll design an academic poster using professional software, develop critical thinking around cultural differences, and practise both oral and written communication for academic and industry contexts. A creative, skills-focused approach ensures y

Developing a personal, critical approach to art and design practice is the focus of this module. You'll complete projects exploring materials, techniques, and visual communication, using research-led processes to underpin your creative decisions. Independent thinking is encouraged as you build a portfolio showcasing your growing expertise. Lectures, studio sessions, and group critiques provide the framework for reflection and skill progression, ensuring you're ready for the demands of higher-lev

This module aims to relate design skills with the use and application of materials in the Term 2 main design project. You should understand the nature and character of various types of materials in common categories such as types of stone, casting material, glass, metalwork and woodwork. The use of workshops will be intrinsic to your learning outcomes. You will also be expected to have a thorough body of research. Running in parallel with "Design Resolution 1", you should come equipped with a kn

The module enables you to produce imaginative, appropriate and competent design proposals in response to a variety of sites, briefs, and cultural, social and technological issues. Furthermore, it aims to develop a general understanding of the materials, processes and techniques that are applied in the architectural interior, and product design disciplines. The module aims to develop your confidence and ability to apply a range of communication methods and media to present your design proposals c

The module aims to introduce you to the skills, processes and practices involved in a spatial design project. It engages you in a range of processes by means of which you can understand, think about and engage with the academic and practical design discipline of architectural design. The module enables you to develop an understanding of space and materials. It familiarises you with methods for fabricating models, prototypes, 2D and 3D drawings, sketches, diagrams, collages, photographs and mixed

The module aims to prepare you for the task of visualising and communicating their work at all stages of its development and setting their work in relation to the final design project Design Investigation, Design Resolution and Design Integration and the technical demands of the design proposal. In this regard, drawing ability is a necessary skill for observation, recording, analysis, visualisation, evaluation and communication of different technical aspects of the design project. This module ai

This module will introduce you to architecture and interior design, and how they connect to art, culture, and technology. In your architecture degree, you'll learn about important historical ideas and current practices. You'll learn how to think critically about them. As you learn more about architecture, you'll think about how new ideas and technologies are changing the field. This module equips you with the research, analysis, and essay-writing skills you need for advanced academic work. It al

Developing the key psychological and physical determinants of human performance is increasingly critical for successful graduate-level employment, entrepreneurship and career progression in the 4th industrial revolution. This module will provide you with the opportunity to develop skills, competencies and experience required for successful development to, and in, a range of potential future career areas. Herein you will begin to recognise the areas for your own personal professional development

This module helps you develop a creative and efficient way to work on design projects. It will focus on making you aware of occupants and users of buildings and what their needs are. You'll learn how to design objects and spaces that consider users' physical, social, and psychological needs. You will explore the key characteristics of design projects with a particular focus on collecting information and analysing data. You will observe people, places, contexts and materials that are appropriate

The aim of this module is to rehearse the production of more complex design projects in preparation for the final project undertaken in the final year. It also opens up the range of opportunities available to a student of architectural design looking to work in an extremely varied discipline, but where individual practices often specialise. The module therefore allows for a degree of choice concerning the design unit and therefore the project type and site. Running in parallel with Design Integr