Our students bring creative talents, developed through undergraduate study or professional experience. They learn new design methods and tools and find new areas to apply their creativity in projects that make a difference to the world

Design strategist Professor Tom Inns

Professor Seaton Baxter, OBE, Director of the Centre for Natural Design

Hazel White, Programme Director

Professor Mike Press is a design policy maker in areas from counter terror to craft

Gill Wildman, of Carnegie Mellon University is external examiner for the Programme.

Professor Colin Burns, former head of IDEO, UK is a visiting lecturer

staff

additionally each student is appointed a study advisor who has expertise in the students project area

structure

Realisation and Communication

Research Methods

Strategic Design Thinking

People + Design

Writing

Futures

Design Practice

Discover Define DeliverDefine

structure

Strategic Info Design

Futures

PlacementTeaching

People and Design 20 credit module led by Fraser Bruce, This module provides students from the Master of Design and the MSc in Design Ethnography with an insight into the relationships between people, technology (in the broadest sense of the word - paper is a technology) and design. Using cultural and design theories as frameworks it explores through hands-on design projects and case studies the ways in which design practices creatively engage with new trends in society.

projects

20 credit module allows students to work on live projects, from conducting design research for Deutsche Telekom in Berlin to working alongside designers developing design concepts. We have opportunities this year for students to work with a Rwandan Textile manufacturer and with leading forensic scientists to develop a forensic jewellery identification system

placements

Divya Kymal studied graphic design in Chennai, India. Her master’s project considered how the University of Dundee can communicate a clear and consistent message to international applicants. After graduation from the Masters, Divya worked for Idiom Designs in Bangalore and now has her own visual communications company, jointfamily

Jen Ballie studied textiles at undergraduate. Her master’s project looked at how virtual media might reduce our consumption of throwaway fashion. During her Masters study Jen fought off stiff competition to secure an innovative PhD scholarship funded by ethical retailer Neal’s Yard at the University of the Arts London.Jen is now working in the Textiles Futures Research Group (Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Chelsea College of Art & Design and London College of Fashion) a world centre for innovation.

Ryan McLeod has an undergraduate degree in Interactive Media Design. For his master’s project he worked alongside Graham Pullin, designer and author of Design Meets Disability (MIT Press) to develop speech hedge a system to customise speech synthesis for people who cannot speak. Ryan now works for Equator Design

masters projects

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