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3D Design: Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories

BA(Hons)
UCAS code: W790

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Designing and making in a range of different materials and taught by recognised practitioners
Live projects and competitions incorporated into the course
Learning within a larger multi-material 3D design scheme

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‘Exhibited in Japan, prepared an exhibition with the Crafts Council in London and collected a cheque for an ‘Award of Excellence’ from the Society of Designer Craftsmen - not bad for my first year of trading as a Craft Designer Maker! I could not have done any of these things without the good, sound training from the course at Staffordshire University.’
3D Design graduate

What it’s about

This course enables you to focus on the design and manufacture of precious and non-precious jewellery and related fashion accessories. Working across a range of materials you will learn about design and making objects using a combination of traditional workshop processes and modern industrial manufacturing methods. You gain the skills to design and make one off or batch produced items. The course seeks to explore innovation within jewellery and fashion accessories by exploiting modern manufacturing process and working with unusual combinations of materials to develop new areas of practice.

What you do

This course forms part of the suite of 3D Design awards, comprising: BA(Hons) 3D Design: Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories, BA(Hons) 3D Design: Interior Products, BA(Hons) 3D Design: Crafts and BA(Hons) 3D Design: Ceramics. All the awards have a common structure that provides the generic core skills and understanding required to be a successful 3D Designer as well as having a distinct curriculum aimed at developing the specialist knowledge required to be successful as a jeweller.

At Level 4 you will focus on basic 3D design skills acquisition. You will explore a range of media including wood, metal, ceramics and plastics in order to confirm your future direction and to broaden your creative experience. In the second half of the year you will focus on your chosen pathway and gain further specialist design and making skills through undertaking modules specific to jewellery and fashion accessories.

At Level 5 common core modules focus on developing understanding of different design approaches relevant to your chosen pathway. Option modules provide an opportunity to develop further jewellery and fashion accessory specific knowledge and practical skills by following modules in fine metal, body adornment or surface pattern.

At Level 6 you will undertake a negotiated project within your specialism. In addition, you will follow common professional development modules that equip you with the knowledge needed for careers in design and the creative industries.

Modules are project-based and delivered through a combination of integral studio work, demonstrations, practical workshops, tutorials, critiques, seminars and lectures. You will be able to determine through academic and technical guidance, a personal approach to jewellery and fashion accessories.

Course Outline

Year 1
• Material Investigation
• Visual Studies
• 3D Designing and Making

In addition, you’ll pick one module from the following option choices: Surface Design for Ceramics or Material Enquiry: Form and Surface. Contextual Studies is compulsory and consist of two modules: Objects and Patterns and Studying 3D Design

Year 2
• Designer Maker 1: Design in Context
• 3D Multiple Production
• Designer Maker 2: Public and Private Commissions

In addition, you’ll pick two modules from the following option choices: Investigating Ceramic Surfaces, The Stitched Surface, Contemporary Body Adornment, Atmospherics: Contemporary Lighting, Metal Fabrications, and Plaster Prototyping for Tableware. Again, there is a compulsory contextual studies module, Art or Design? Interfaces and Exchanges.

Year 3
• 3D Design: Negotiated Project 1: Research and Development
• 3D Design Crafts Negotiated Project 2: Implementation and Production
• Live Briefs and Competitions for the 3D Designer
• Professional Practice and Career Planning for the 3D Designer
• Catalogue Essay Project.

Where next

Graduates from the 3D Design suite of awards have set up successful small businesses as designer makers, others have gone on to work in different sectors of the creative industries including education, craft retail management, museum and gallery exhibition work, and community arts.

Students and graduates have gone on to win nationally recognised awards such as The Future of Design Award at New Designers and have won the Goldsmiths’ Company precious metals award for two consecutive years, featured in nationally recognised magazines such as Elle Decoration and Ideal Home and have exhibited at high profile shows such as Chelsea Crafts Fair and 100% Design.

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Programme Specification

BA(Hons) 3D Design awards programme specification (PDF, file size: 113.98KB)

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Qualification:	BA(Hons)
Faculty/School:	Faculty of Arts, Media and Design
Location:	Stoke Campus
Course Length:	Normally three years full-time. A part-time route is available.
Entry Requirements:	Typical offer: 240 UCAS points. A Levels: CCC. BTEC: MMM Foundation Art and Design. All applicants are individually assessed via portfolio and interview.
UCAS Code:	W790