Transport Design

• A specialist design course covering all aspects of transportation design
  
  
• Excellent industrial links, with "live" projects leading to work placements, prizes, and employment
  
  
• Creative studio-based atmosphere supported by excellent CAD and workshop facilities
  

• Read Transport Design course information (PDF, file size: 333.57KB)

You will work in a creative and friendly studio environment on transport and industrial design projects. Access to excellent 3D workshops and CAD modelling facilities, using industry standard software, will enable you to present your work to a professional standard. We also run a range of student visits both cultural and industrial in nature.

We aim to equip you with a broad range of transferable and specialist skills working on both interior and exterior proposals for land, sea and air transportation.

At Level 4 you will be introduced to core skills through structured and practical design projects, involving idea generation, drawing and rendering, model making and computer work. The teaching and learning techniques are varied and include individual and group design work, tutorials, seminars and presentations. You will also have important technical and CAD input from the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Technology throughout your course.
Level 5 students will study in greater detail aspects such as concept generation, ergonomics and usability, materials and manufacture and aesthetics.

In the third year you are able to complete a substantial self-selected project. This flexibility gives you the means to indulge in truly original and innovative thinking. You will have the opportunity to enter national design competitions and exhibit to the public and potential employers at the end of year Degree Show and at ‘New Designers’ in London. There are opportunities for placement work in the vacations, or by taking a year out.

Opportunities exist for positions as exterior and interior designers in automotive and transport companies and as designers within a consultancy. Some students may set up their own business or partnership. Transferable skills will enable you to consider the related disciplines of product design.

• Product Design
  
• VFX: Visual Effects and Concept Design

Audi exterior concept by Chris Western

Automotive exterior sketches by John Bridge

Interior concept sketches by John Bridge

• BA(Hons) Product Design; Transport Design Programme Specification (PDF, file size: 93.42KB)

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