Surface Design is concerned with developing creative visual ideas that can be translated into printed designs for a wide range of surfaces.

Surface design covers areas including:

• Printed textiles for fashion and interiors
• Accessories
• Ceramic and glass-ware
• Wallpaper and wrapping
• Decorative laminate and floor coverings

This course will enable you to turn your design ideas into printed surface design products. Structured within a credit-based framework, the course provides specialist studies in: surface decoration onto textiles; ceramics; leisure-wear; paper and other materials. You will also experiment with

• screen-printing
• Computer aided design
• transfer printing
• drawing
• digital photography
• design crafts.

Field trips and study tours take place each academic year to enable students to experience and participate in unique cultural and travel opportunities to exciting destinations. Recent study tours have taken place in Barcelona, Prague, Seville, Venice, Rome and Berlin.

This course is taught within the School of Design

Further information

For further details telephone +44 (0) 20 7514 6569
Email: info@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Year 1

• Cultural Studies 1
• Creative Design Practice
• Print Practice
• Printmaking and Visual Studies
• Photography and Digital Production
• Personal & Professional Development

Year 1 will support your development of a range of study, research and communication skills and prepare you for work experience and Year 2. In the curriculum you will be introduced to a wide range of specialised design skills, techniques and applications appropriate for surface design practice. Creative Design and Print Practice Units will underpin the practical knowledge and techniques required to fulfil assignment objectives. You will study and develop practical skills in the areas of 2D design for printed textiles, ceramics and paper products.

At the end of the first year you should have developed a confident approach and working knowledge of the key design skills and applications involved in surface design. You will also be able to identify and plan further areas of study you wish to focus on in the next academic year, including work placements, exchanges and studying abroad.

Year 2

• Cultural Studies 2
• Surface Decoration
• External Brief
• Visual Analysis
• Personal & Professional Development
• Options (Cross College/Course)

Year 2 will allow you to develop the creative and experimental areas of application in your work. You will also have the opportunity to focus on the areas of Surface Design that appeal to you through a series of course Options.

Year 2 provides you with the opportunity to build and develop the skills you have learnt by engaging in commercially focused project work. You will work to an external client product brief (the External Brief Unit) which will require market research and analysis, the development of ideas and their realisation in the production of design sheets, colourways and painted and printed samples. Industry based projects provide opportunities to link to work placement. The increasing emphasis on the requirements of commercial practice will enable you to gain valuable experience and knowledge whilst preparing for career planning and the challenges presented in the final year.

In Year 2 you will consolidate knowledge and surface design skills through application which takes you into new and challenging areas of practice. By the end of the year you will be able to practice with growing confidence, independence and the maturity required for practice at honours level.

Year 3

• Cultural Studies 3
• Surface Design in a New Context
• Personal & Professional Development
• Major Project

In Year 3 the Dissertation will enable you to evaluate, study and intellectualise an aspect of Surface Design appropriate to your interests. In addition you will specialise in and consolidate an area of your choice before undertaking the Major project.

Personal & Professional Development will focus on your graduate exit profile, with an evaluation of vocational options as a freelance artist or maker, as sole trader or within the commercial world as a designer. Possible areas of post-graduate study will also be discussed.

Specialist Studies enables the realisation of a body of Surface Design work primarily through the Major Project but also through the "Surface Design in a New Context" Unit where you will engage in an experimental approach in the key areas of printed textiles, ceramic decoration or paper products. The first half of the year is focused on this Unit. The rest of the year is devoted to the Major Project which requires you to produce a self-managed piece of work which is assessed at the final public exhibition held at the end of the academic year. This project is produced to a professional level, utilising the college's extensive resources and will reflect your ability to produce an innovative body of work consistent with your proposed professional practice.

This course has a good employment record and is well recognised by its related industries. A significant percentage of our graduates find employment in a related area of the applied arts market place. Additionally a number of students go on to study at postgraduate level within University of the Arts London or elsewhere. This includes the study of postgraduate certificates in education.

2 A levels plus 3 GCSEs (A-C), or equivalent qualifications, or relevant professional experience/experiential learning, or a combination of formal qualifications and experiential learning.

International and EU students: If your first language is not English you should check you have achieved the correct IELTS level in English. Further information is available on our International Applications page.

As part of your application you will also be asked to submit a portfolio of your art and design work.

Please apply through UCAS.

If you are a UK or EU student and you have an admissions enquiry please call +44(0)20 7514 6569 or email ugadmissions@lcc.arts.ac.uk. If your are a none-EU international student and you are unsure about how to apply, admission enquiries should be made through the International Office (call +44 (0)20 7514 8138).

Please Note: This course will not be recruiting students for October 2013 but some aspects of the course may be incorporated into the new LCC Course Portfolio. Decisions on the content of the new course portfolio will be taken by the end of April 2012.

For more information about course changes at LCC visit the LCC New Developments page.