OUR YEAR
MA Design is a two year, project-based
masters during which students focus on a
visionary project of their devising. It is always
exciting and interesting for the staff team to
work alongside such researchers and we are
naturally proud of the work our graduates do
and their future careers. Many have made a
world-class impact already even though the
course is only 14 years old.
We believe that what makes a graduate from
MA Design; Ceramics, Furniture or Jewellery
particularly important is that they not only
conceive, research and design but also
deliver fully realised objects. What you see are
not sketches, not models, but the real deal,
beautifully realised. Globally aware design
allied to the skills our graduates deliver is
increasingly rare in the present climate.
As a research masters program, MA Design;
Ceramics, Furniture or Jewellery requires
its students to spend their two years with
us researching, defning and developing
the work that you see implemented and on
display in our graduate show. We are seeking
individuals who have a personal vision and
the determination, talent and curiosity to
ensure that it is delivered. This happens
through hard work.
So, as Course Director and on behalf of my
colleagues, I am delighted that you have
chosen to join us in celebrating this year’s
thoroughly international cohort of visionaries.
As a course that has, at its root, a passionate
combination of design and craft in all their
manifestations, I think you can clearly see
how many differing and wide-ranging ways
this cohort believes that production can
come in many forms. From the hand made to
digital frontiers, this awareness is important
for all of our futures and future aspirations.
Aspirational, because many of the objects
in this year’s show are both desirable and
extraordinary, and because, if you are tracking
the careers of our past alumni, you will already
know that these will indeed become some of
the objects of the future.
June 2018
Simon Fraser, Course Leader
MA Design; Ceramics
MA Design; Furniture
MA Design; Jewellery