Jewellery Design (MA)

Overview

This intensive taught course helps design professionals and graduates to deepen skills and experience within the jewellery industry through the support of leading international contemporary designers and academics. The Department has the widest range of specialist facilities in Europe for silversmithing and jewellery. This course aims to foster advanced practical and creative design skills relevant to commercial jewellery production. Students are encouraged to develop an individual design philosophy to sustain a portfolio of design practice. Students will evaluate the local and global language of jewellery and fashion design and consider ways of engaging new audience and product opportunities.

The University's unique location on the East London City fringe provides a dynamic creative community. Most members of the teaching staff are practising artists and designers and we enjoy the support of high-profile, artists, designers and manufacturers. Our outstanding facilities, specialist expertise and related business activities (Goldsmiths Centre, Digital Manufacturing Centre, Metropolitan Works, Design Nation) support and prepare you for employment within jewellery design.

Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Media and Design

www.londonmet.ac.uk/jcamd/

Applying and entry

PLEASE NOTE There is no official closing date for this course, but you are advised to apply as early as possible as we will only consider your application if there are places available on the course.

Tel: 020 7133 4202
Email: admissions@londonmet.ac.uk

Successful applicants normally hold an Honours degree within design and have a relevant design portfolio. Those with relevant professional qualifications and/or extensive professional design experience will also be considered.

Course contents

Course structure

The course includes seven core modules, live project work and design report development. Modules include:

• Design Research into Practice
• Digital Forming (optional)
• 3D Design (optional)
• Design for Production
• Design Targets
• Visual Communication
• Exploring Practice
• Major Project

Read more about the modules

Assessment

You are supported through a 'laboratory' model of learning; developing innovative design, conceptual thinking, professional understanding and aesthetic sensitivity. You present design work and reports for assessment and exhibition throughout the course.

Careers

Career opportunities

The UK's leading careers website, prospects.ac.uk, states that over 50% of people in the design sector work in London. With the highest concentration of designers and related businesses in the world, our location offers opportunities for students and professionals to showcase cutting-edge design. Through work placement and live projects, you develop design projects that are commercially and creatively relevant for global consumer markets. Typical career opportunities include work as consultant designers, CEOs, in-house designers within manufacturing companies, bespoke designers within established jewellery/fashion design companies, designers and/or makers of bespoke jewellery, production managers/consultants, fashion styling, retail trend prediction, freelance designers for; corporate clients, commission, limited/batch and mass production markets.

What our students say

I initially thought Research within the Art and Design world would be almost non-existing. Nothing further from the truth! And I believe that the Design Suite MA, having so many original ideas that have appeared from combining knowledge from different backgrounds is the most favourable environment to conduct research and obtain its primary output: innovation. Within this MA I had to truly “learn to think” and put my own ideas on paper, not just a collection of someone else’s. It has taken away my fear of researching, so much so, that I am now considering pursuing a PhD.

Natalia Macia Bove