Autonomatic
Autonomatic, the 3D Digital Production research cluster is located in Falmouth’s custom built Design Centre at the Tremough Campus which houses a suite of cutting edge digital production technologies including Rapid Prototyping, Laser Cutting, 3D scanning and Computer-Numerically-Controlled Milling. The location of this comprehensive digital production resource within a creative and educational context supports a distinctive area of practice-based research concerned with the integration of digital technologies into the creative processes of designing through making.

Our research activities in this area are motivated by a need for 3D designers and makers to establish sustainable creative practices that enable them to work innovatively in response to a widening social and cultural demand for individualised and customised products in a global market place. This field of research is of particular relevance in Cornwall where there are large number of makers and where the current agenda is to develop economically, socially and environmentally sustainable practices that compliment and develop the existing environment and cultural activities of the region.
To find out more about our work, have a look at our website:
www.autonomatic.org.uk

Postgraduate

MA 20th Century Art & Design: Histories & Theories
Art and design history is not just about the past; it’s also about the present and the future. The role that society has played in shaping art and culture over the last century and the role it will play in shaping the next is the focus of this innovative course. Through research, analysis, criticism and theory, you’ll develop a critical awareness of contemporary culture as well as movements such as post-impressionism, art nouveau, pop art and postmodernism, in their wider social and historical context.

You’ll also identify and develop your own particular research interests. High-profile guest speakers and self-funded study trips to London, Paris, Berlin or Barcelona complement the course, whilst work placements give you the practical experience you’ll need to turn the inspiration you’ll find here into a rewarding profession.

MA Contemporary Crafts
MA Contemporary Crafts builds on Falmouth’s outstanding reputation in ceramics, and enables you to specialise or work across other media such as glass, plastics, wood, metal and textiles. You’ll have access to cutting-edge facilities and technologies, as well as traditional skills to enhance your interpretation of new forms of crafts practice. Alongside the knowledge and expertise of Falmouth’s dedicated staff, leading practitioners, design organisations and businesses also regularly contribute, further expanding your resources and giving you real insight into where your studies could lead you. MA Garden Design
MA Garden Design encourages you to develop yourself as a designer by helping to define the future of garden design practice. Design approaches can be highly architectural or ecological, or anything in between, addressing issues about the changing use of gardens by individuals and communities, the role gardens play in child development, healing and enhancing the quality of people’s lives. The outcomes of the MA are negotiated through project work as either design or theoretical approaches, and you’re expected to take responsibility for your own learning with the support of lectures, seminars and tutorials.

MA Interior & Landscape Design
MA Interior & Landscape Design encompasses everything from exhibition design and architecture to temporary structure design and public art, and encourages you to explore and experiment with space from a theoretical and practical perspective. With access to specialist technology for design development and model making, collaboration with local and national design businesses, as well as lectures, presentations and workshops led by our accomplished staff and leading practitioners, MA Interior & Landscape Design will provide you with the skills and expertise to develop your own place within the industry.

MA Textile Design
MA Textile Design utilises an enviable range of equipment and techniques including digital Jacquard weaving, laser cutting, and digital printing, to provide you with the very best in fabric making technology from sewing and weaving to dyeing and printing, so that you can turn your design ideas into reality. Collaborating with business professionals and with the valuable knowledge of our passionate staff and researchers, you’ll become a skilled and experienced practitioner ready to lead the way in the textile design industry.

MA 3D Design
MA 3D Design covers a wide range of disciplines from furniture and lighting to jewellery and leisure, and allows you to develop your area of expertise through access to high-end technology, lectures with leading practitioners in all 3D design fields, and the specialist knowledge of our dedicated staff and researchers. Our fully-equipped workshops will give you the opportunity to broaden your understanding of different materials, from glass and wood to ceramics, plastics and metal, or hone your skills in one medium even further. Collaboration with design businesses will not only build your practical skills but also offer you valuable professional insight, fully preparing you for your future career in the design industries.

Undergraduate

3D Design for Sustainability
Our 3D design course encourages you to design new products that not only inspire and empower people but that also reduce impacts on the environment. Our course in 3D design nurtures creative, independent thinking through design, making and experimentation. We believe that sustainability lies at the core of 3D Design. It underpins your skills, enhances your problem-solving abilities and fuels your creativity. For us, becoming a successful 3D designer is about exploring and anticipating human needs so that your designs reflect modern life.

Contemporary Crafts
Today’s vibrant design culture employs craft skills more widely than ever before, exploiting both traditional processes and digital technologies. Learning through making provides the environment, experience, knowledge and professional awareness to enable you to be at the cutting edge in contemporary crafts.

Experimentation, exploration and excitement defines the Contemporary Crafts course at Falmouth. If you’re looking for an innovative approach, cutting-edge technology, dedicated staff and the opportunity to discover your own artistic voice while helping redefine what craft in the 21st century means, then Falmouth is the place for you.

Here, you’ll learn how to see design concepts through from idea to final product, acquire a diverse range of skills and work with both traditional and revolutionary techniques. Experimentation and the possibilities afforded by working with combinations of materials is the key to contemporary craft – and we’ll help you push the boundaries to realise your potential.

Fashion Design
Fashion design...a global outlook with a local perspective - from trend-spotting and fashion illustration to pattern-cutting and styling, we will prepare you for all aspects of the constantly changing world of international fashion for contemporary lifestyles.

Fashion design at Falmouth is different. It focuses on the creation of leisure wear, beachwear, streetwear and clothes that reflect a modern, relaxed lifestyle.
From drawing and fabric technology to computer graphics, Falmouth also merges design disciplines to give you one of the most forward-thinking, global reaching and innovative fashion design courses in the country.

Garden Design
For us, good garden design is about great thinking. And what better place to stimulate thinking than the most visually rich college in the country, where you are never short of inspiration – from the rugged landscape and sub-tropical gardens of Cornwall to the stimulation of studying with other artists? The only Garden Design course in the UK based at a college of art, design and media, Falmouth takes a unique approach; addressing the discipline from a visual perspective but grounding it firmly in design and horticulture. Through our partnership with Duchy College, you’ll learn about organic practice, conservation, soil and plants at the same time as developing your design skills, creativity and fully-rounded knowledge of garden making. From conception and planning to the creation and management of landscapes, you’ll master all stages of the garden design process, making models and prototypes as well as producing a variety of graphics to convey your designs.

Graphic Design
We believe that design is just as much about thinking the problem through as it is about what the final solution looks like. Over the last few years this simple philosophy has been endorsed by the fact that our students have won over 50 national and international awards, and has created the foundation for many graduate success stories from Falmouth to the Far East.

The course’s success is built upon promoting a thorough understanding of the design process, striking a realistic balance between developing your conceptual thinking and mastering the skills to express your visual ideas creatively – whether digitally or in print. We encourage you to question the role of design and the designer’s responsibilities within society. We aim to develop your confidence, encouraging you to take risks, experiment and play. There’s no house style here. We want to inspire you to describe graphic design in your terms, define your goals and support you in reaching your potential.

Interior Design * Subject to validation
With an emphasis on professional practice, Interior Design is about maximising potential, transforming spaces through working with clients and other specialists, to develop innovative and creative design solutions. From exploring the fundamentals of materials and structure to planning and creating exciting interior spaces, you’ll cover every aspect of interior design. You’ll not only learn about the construction and detailing of space and how to communicate your designs to professional standards through traditional and digital presentation techniques, you’ll also be given the inspiration and encouragement to find your own personal approach to interior design.
Taught in synergy with our established Spatial Design and Garden Design degrees, and based in our Design Centre, you’ll benefit from working with staff who are experienced architects, landscape architects and interior designers, as well as from having access to the very best in cutting-edge technology.

Performance Sportswear Design
We want you to design practical, functional clothing and apparel, as well as consider fashion and aesthetics, so that you create performance sportswear designs that people want to wear.

That’s where we come in. Performance Sportswear Design at Falmouth aims to get you thinking about the unique needs of this type of fashion design, whilst equipping you with the technical skills to design and make practical, functional garments for everything from surfing and snowboarding to climbing and sailing.

From research and drawing to scientific exploration and fabric testing, you’ll experience all aspects of designing performance sportswear. Through both hand drawing and digital technologies, you’ll demonstrate your design ideas as well as experiment with the latest fabrics – from neoprene to Polartec – and construction methods like flatlocking and blindstitching, in order to come up with original, technically sound performance sportswear like drysuits, wetsuits and base layers. At the same time, studying fashion and graphics will help you develop creatively so that you produce designs that are both practical and look fantastic.

Spatial Design
Our task on this spatial design course is to design interiors and environments that engage our senses, celebrate those who use them and their cultures, and make responsible use of resources. On this course in spatial design, you will develop individual, innovative designs for internal and external spaces that reflect the way people live, work and interact.

We look at space differently. For us, it’s about looking at our surroundings and how we interact with them, physically and emotionally. At Falmouth you’ll discover that spatial design is a matter of problem solving, revitalising old spaces and creating new places.
Whether it’s developing your design and making skills or planning and creating exciting interiors and exteriors, you’ll master a broad range of skills. Learning through a hands-on approach, you’ll produce models and designs using a range of hand-drawn media and computer graphics. You’ll experiment with the wide range of materials available within our Design Centre and have access to specialist design technology to help turn your design ideas into reality.

Textile Design
The textile design course at Falmouth allows you to explore both new and traditional materials and processes, and new ways of combining them. You will also design, construct and create textiles, develop skills in different processes and production techniques, and establish your own visual language as well as your own position in the world of contemporary textile design.

When it comes to cutting-edge textile design, sight and touch are vital when imagining and designing exciting new fabrics. We’ll teach you how to develop these senses creatively, so that you can design original fabrics for fashion, interiors, and one-off pieces for display and exhibition. We strike a balance between the imaginative and technical elements of design. Whether it’s drawing for research, exploring media, or making cloth, you’ll master all aspects of the textile design process – from idea conception to final production. You’ll produce samples, study the principles of dyeing, printing, weaving and mixed media textiles, and experiment with a range of production techniques. Working on live projects with established businesses, you’ll also design to client briefs, and make professional contacts that will help your future career.