Meet your Course Leader
Tim welcomes you to BA (Hons) Product, Furniture, Ceramics at University of Staffordshire
Tim Forrester is an award-winning designer maker with extensive industry and academic experience. He is a highly skilled, dedicated and commercially aware designer maker with significant experience in a variety of interior product areas, luxurious materials and manufacturing processes both in the UK and International markets. He achieved great success during a substantial period working in Milan before returning to the UK to continue designing and producing inspirational furniture collections.
Tim’s work has been featured in prominent design publications worldwide, showcased on several UK television productions, and exhibited in London, Milan, and the ICFF in New York. His current practice explores the interaction between objects and their users, aiming to enhance the usability and enjoyment of everyday items while maintaining aesthetic appeal.
Learning directly from practicing artists, designers, and makers like Tim is one reason why our graduates achieve such success in the design industry. Primarily we are about developing your potential to produce exciting and highly desirable objects for the lived-in environment.
Through our strong industry connections, students are currently collaborating on live projects with renowned brands such as Vitra, Wedgwood, Habitat, Tom Faulkner Furniture, M&S Home, Kevala Ceramics, and the Wood Veneer Hub.
We look forward to welcoming the next generation of designer makers to the studio.