Product Design
Use your talent as a designer to create products for a sustainable future.
Madrid
On campus
ESP
Official Undergraduate Degree in Design
Language
Spanish
Start date
September 2023
Frequency
Full time
Fruition
On campus
Duration
4 Years
Credits
240 ECTS
Acquire the design tools you need to create new products and services to improve the things we use today for a better tomorrow. Transform your world! Conceive, experiment, create the products only you can imagine.
Build your future: with this BA in Product Design you’ll take your first steps in a career focused on improving the way we live. In this course you’ll acquire all the resources you need as a professional designer to create products and services in all the strategic sectors of the modern world.
This IED Madrid course is based on the essential values we’ve acquired over the years, such as sustainable design, industrial production and active encouragement to develop your own identity as a creative professional designer, using innovation to transform the world.
In the course you’ll be using the latest state-of-the-art technology such as virtual and augmented reality, 3D modelling, advanced planning and prototyping. Working in the FabLab, a unique creative space at IED not just because of its size but also how state-of-the-art technologies are implemented, you’ll experiment with a number of different materials and production processes, both hands-on and using digital technology.
Information to decide
A degree you can use to really do something for the world, developing innovative projects, collaborating with ground-breaking companies, competing in design contests.
In this BA in Product Design at IED Madrid, you can choose your own unique pathway from one of two specialisations: Industrial Design or Home Decor and Furniture Design.
You’ll start the course as a student at IED, with the international experience of one of the best schools in the fields of design and management to guide you, and finish the course with a highly qualified professional profile and a unique creative identity.
This practice-based course has produced award-winning results every year, with students winning prestigious awards, such as the iF Design Talent Award and ADI-FAD Industrial Design Association medals, to name but a few.
In the 4-year course you’ll find the projects you imagine, the ideas you have in mind become more than just sketches, as you turn them into real material products. You’ll do this in the FabLab, a unique creative space IED designed for students to make rapid progress in hands-on prototyping, production and testing; in the FabLab your designs take shape.
The course is structured so the content of the subjects can be changed and updated with strategic, new information in line with market trends.
This course is for those who want to use their imagination to improve the user experience and play a vital role in the transformation needed to live on our planet in a sustainable way.
It’s for professionals, aspiring designers of products and services interested in a new way of life, the products we’ll use in the future, and how artificial intelligence will affect society.
On finishing the course, you’ll be ready for a busy professional career in a variety of product design fields: physical, digital, strategic.
If you’re constantly seeking stimuli, coming up with novel ideas for new services, if you imagine revolutionary business models or dream of creating ground-breaking new products, this is the course for you.
Studying this BA in Product Design at IED Madrid puts you right where the action is, in one of the capitals of the product design world.
This course lets you develop your own Personal Project, and offers two official specialisation pathways in Industrial Design (strategic and services, digital, mobility, health, technology, virtual reality, interactive design, IoT and wearables) or Home Decor and Furniture Design (furniture and furnishings, objects and materials, lights, textiles, handicraft and food design).
The course gives priority to hands-on experience, and you’ll have access to unique Design Labs, acquire Soft Skills and apply state-of-the-art technologies. What’s more, you’ll be able to take advantage of numerous collaborations and agreements the school has entered into with some of the top companies in the field specialised in the design of products and services, giving you the chance to complete 360 hours of first-hand work experience to get a clear idea of what you’ll be doing in the professional world.
Syllabus
What will you learn?
You’ll discover the fundamentals of design, learn the best tools and most effective interdisciplinary resources you’ll use as a professional designer. You’ll learn how to do research, analyse and manage the information acquired to meet the requirements and expectations of your client and the user of the product or service you’re creating.
DESIGN FUNDAMENTALS
Design Fundamentals / Analysis
Design Fundamentals / Ideation
REPRESENTATION AND COMMUNICATION LANGUAGES AND TECHNIQUES
Sketching / Representation
Sketching / Communication
Volume
Representation Systems
Digital Technology
Colour
SCIENCE APPLIED TO DESIGN
Scientific Fundamentals of Design
Eco-design
THE HISTORY OF ART AND DESIGN
Art History and Theory
GRAPHIC IDEATION AND 3D REALITY
Models and Prototypes / Manual Techniques
PRODUCT DESIGN MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY
Digital Technology / 2D Modelling
PROJECTS FOR PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS
Product Design
What will you learn?
In the second year of the course you’ll acquire a global and theoretical vision of the history of product and service design, as you progress in the technical and practical development of the subjects you studied the previous year. You’ll work in research labs and start creating cutting-edge projects.
REPRESENTATION AND COMMUNICATION LANGUAGES AND TECHNIQUES
Photography and Audiovisual Design
Expression and Communication Techniques
THE HISTORY OF ART AND DESIGN
Design History and Theory
DESIGN CULTURE
Design Theory and Culture
Product Design Materials and Technology
Materials and Innovation
Materials and Innovation / Manufacturing
Digital Technology / 3D Modelling
Digital Technology / Rendering
AESTHETICS
Projects / Product Design / Form - Function
Projects / Product Design / User Experience
Lab / Product Design / Form and Design
Lab / Product Design / Ergonomics
GRAPHIC IDEATION AND 3D REALITY
Graphic Ideation
Models and Prototypes / Digital Techniques
PRODUCT DESIGN MANAGEMENT
Systems, Design and Sustainability
What will you learn?
In the third year you’ll discover professional techniques such as strategic design, digital and virtual prototyping. You’ll gain more advanced hands-on experience by participating in experimental design workshops and developing specific projects for your pathway.
Core Syllabus
Design Management
Business Organisation
Product Design Materials and Technology
Digital Technology / Prototyping
Materials and Innovation / Finishes
Packaging Projects
Containers, Packs and Packaging / Fundamentals
Containers, Packs and Packaging / Application
Projects for Products and Systems
Projects / Product Design / Virtual
Lab / Product Design / Self-production
Strategic Design
Analysis of Natural Forms and Structural Systems
Biomimetics
Analysis of Forms and Systems
Pathway syllabus
Industrial design
Product Design Management
Product Project Management
Projects for Products and Systems
Lab / Experimental Design
The History of Design
The History and Theory of Product Design
Pathway Options
Industrial design / System
Industrial design
Home Decor and Furniture Design
Product Design Management
Home Decor and Furniture Project Management
Projects for Products and Systems
Lab / Lamp Design
The History of Design
The History and Theory of Home Decor and Furniture Design
Pathway Options
Home Decor and Furniture Design / System
Home Decor and Furniture Design
What will you learn?
In the fourth year you’ll concentrate on tutored work experience and preparing your final project to showcase all the professional know-how you’ve acquired using your creative talent. You’ll also create a personal portfolio to present your work on the international market.
Core Syllabus
Graphic Ideation and 3D Reality
Graphic Ideation II
Pathway syllabus
Industrial design
Project for Products and Systems
Portfolio
Mobility and Transport
Tutored Work Experience
Final Project
Home Decor and Furniture Design
Project for Products and Systems
Portfolio
Textile Design
Tutored Work Experience
Final Project
Free choice subjects
Design and Branding
Cultural Anthropology
Robotics
Video II
Here you can access the Study Plan of Higher Artistic Design Education.
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