Get your hands dirty? Yes! Let your mind run wild in the heat of the creative process? Oh yes! Connecting the hand that creates with the mind that thinks – ideally through your own heart’s blood? That too, yes? Then this course is exactly right for you – whether you’ve got your A-levels, a master craftsman’s certificate or a vocational qualification under your belt. As a professionally trained designer with technical expertise, you’ll combine theory and practice, reflection with construction, and the future with tradition.

The course meets you where you are: if you’ve already completed a craft apprenticeship, you’ll be taught the skills needed for professional design work. If you’re a school leaver, you’ll gain a solid grounding in woodworking or ceramics through a supplementary course. Either way, you’ll acquire practical product design and craft skills as well as business management knowledge.
You will engage with both design research and design practice. You will explore ‘product and consumer culture’ and future-defining topics such as ‘ecology and sustainability’ and ‘digitalisation’, discovering how design is constantly evolving against the backdrop of social and technological developments (such as numerically controlled design and production techniques like CNC milling, 3D printing, AI, etc.). Through active project work, you can explore the latest developments in the design and processing of a wide variety of materials, experience an open and process-oriented approach to design, and pursue your own individual design approaches.

To better shape your career, in your second year of study you can choose between specialisations in Business Administration and Cultural Studies, thereby preparing yourself either for future management roles in medium-sized industrial companies, for self-employment in the creative industries, or for a subsequent Master’s degree.