Product Design

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At Sussex, we develop innovative and creative solutions to shift our society towards a more sustainable and regenerative future for all – people and planet.

You’ll learn to design for social impact and solve real-world challenges. And you’ll explore emerging technologies and the exciting opportunities they offer creative practitioners.

You’ll also have the opportunity to work on live briefs. This will give experience of working with – and receive feedback from – experts from a wide range of companies. The environmental impact of products are always at the forefront of what we do. You’ll learn to understand the full life-cycle of your designs, along with the impact of our decisions as designers.

Designing the future

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    Student 1: My favourite piece of product design is the Lego brick. It's infinitely creative, there's so much you can do with it.

    Student 2: My favourite would be the 3D printers. It's a really new technology that we haven't fully explored yet.

    Student 3: Loop earplugs, instead of blocking the noise, it filters it. And I just think they're a really good piece of design.

    Student 4: The silicone menstrual cup, they're so convenient and they're really improving the lives of so many people.

    Student 5: Regenerative packaging, because they're very environmentally friendly and I think it's a very creative and inspiring use of design.

    Student 4: My favourite project right now is the live brief with a group.

    Student 5: Disassembling a scooter and then redesigning a better scooter. I think it's a really cool way of getting into product design.

    Student 1: We're writing magazines of our own to help us focus on our own design philosophy. I think that in the future, product design can take me anywhere. It's such an important subject in so many fields.

    Student 2: Right now, I'm on an industrial placement at the International Workplace Group, looking into new ways we can make their company more progressive and more sustainable.

    Student 5: In one of my courses, we worked with whittling spoons. So, we used axes, spoon knives and many other things, it was really interesting and I love the course

    Student 1: Design can most certainly, change the world. It is the beginning of all things. It translates what we believe can be done into what can be done.

    Student 4: There's so many interesting areas to explore.

    Student 2: We can be way more sustainable.

    Student 5: There's pretty much infinite possibilities.

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Meet Lucy

Lucy Hughes, Product Design BSc graduate, won the International James Dyson Award 2019 with MarinaTex, a single-use plastic alternative made from waste materials from the fishing industry. Lucy developed the biodegradable material for the final-year project of her degree and is now working on its commercialisation.

Read Lucy’s story

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