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Furniture Design for Beginners Short Course

Course description

This fast paced course combines conceptual and practical skills in furniture design and modelmaking, representing a fast track to understanding and learning about professional furniture design practice as a whole. Packed with specialist knowledge, it will tap into your creativity, encouraging you to experiment with ideas for your designs. It will also give you a useful insights into practical aspects of design such as batch production, costings, technical restraint and ergonomics.

You will get a comprehensive overview of key areas of current professional furniture design practice. This course offers you the perfect balance between conceptual design processes and the practical tools to transform your ideas into three dimensional reality.

Who should take this course?

  • Beginners with an interest in furniture design.
  • Graduate and practicing designers wishing to explore this specific area in more depth.
  • Some previous students have used this course as a starting point for further studies in product and furniture design.

Level: Although it is better suited to beginners, all levels of previous experience are welcome.

Entry requirements: A good understanding of spoken English.

Clear, easy to understand lessons:

  • Our tutors will explain things in easy to understand, accessible English. If they need to use any special terminology they will make sure they explain what they mean.
  • New methodologies will be explained or demonstrated
  • We also offer learning resources for you to access outside of the classroom

All our on campus courses include:

  • Network and share ideas with students from across the globe
  • Access the technology and materials relevant to your discipline
  • Shop in our college shops for any materials you might need
  • Ask questions to your tutor in real time
  • Receive feedback and critique on your assignments
  • Experience the many sights of London on your down time

All our online short courses include:

  • Live and interactive online lessons with classmates from around the world
  • The same course content and learning outcomes as our face to face courses 
  • Lesson recordings, for review, so you never have to miss a class 
  • Access to the virtual learning environment with course content 
  • Forums for support 
  • 2 weeks online access to the recordings of the live classroom sessions 
  • Ask questions to your tutor in real time 

A certificate of completion:

  • You've put the work in so we want to make sure you have something to show for it! 
  • As long as you attend a minimum of 80% of your classes, we will provide you with a certificate of attendance.  
  • However we always recommend you attend all of the classes so that you get the most out of the experience!  
  • Certificates are a great addition to your CV. 

Available dates

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Make an enquiry or call us on 0207 514 7015.

Details

Topics covered include:

  • researching and understanding the client's needs
  • originating new ideas and developing concepts in 2D and 3D
  • model making, drawing and sketching
  • experimenting with wood, wire, metal and plastics
  • testing your ideas in scale and 1:1
  • presenting your final design in a 3D presentation model

Materials

On campus materials

  • range of pencils (minimum 2H,HB,2B,6/8B)
  • sketchbook (A4 or A5 size)
  • laptop (if you have one)
  • camera (could be a camera phone)

Material provided by us: The course fees include everything else that you will need for studio and workshop practice, apart from any specialist materials and fabrics that you may wish to buy.

Learning resources

You may want to look at current exhibitions at the Design Museum, Tate Modern, Tate Britain, V&A , Science Museum, The Natural History Museum, and Somerset House.

International exhibitions include Salone del Mobile Milan, IMM Cologne, Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair and Toyko Design Week.

Online short course materials

To take part in the Online sessions you will need:

  • An up-to-date web browser (we recommend Chrome)
  • Microphone and headphones (a headset with a microphone function is recommended. The built-in microphone in your device would also be fine)
  • Webcam
  • Strong Internet connection - we recommend a minimum of 2 Mbps download, and 1 Mbps upload, faster if possible. You can test your network speed here - https://www.speedtest.net

Please bring for the first session:

  • notebook and pen
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An intense and fast paced course combining conceptual and practical skills in furniture design and model making. Packed with specialist knowledge, it will tap into your creativity, encouraging you to experiment with ideas for your designs. It will also give you a useful insight into some practical aspects of design such as batch production, technical restraint and ergonomics.

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