Bachelor of Arts - Product Design
- 4 years
- Duration
- 16,100 EUR/year
- Price
- Sep 2025
- Start
- May 2025
- Deadline
- Bachelor
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Barcelona / Spain
- Location
Program description
This English-taught product design course will equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to develop socially conscious, strategically informed, and technologically advanced designs across a wide range of industries, including but not limited to furniture, lighting, consumer electronics, packaging, personal accessories, tools, utensils, electrical appliances, and wearables.
You'll get an overview of the entire product development process, from brainstorming through marketing. Our instructors have extensive practical experience as designers, so they can help you adapt to the changing demands of the market in terms of aesthetics, technology, and sustainability.
This 4-year program is designed to help you grow as an artist. You'll have everything you need to plan and execute a high-caliber project that offers fresh perspectives on the challenges of today by fusing together form and function without sacrificing ideals.
Program structure
1st YEAR
- Foundation Project I
- Representation Techniques I
- Project Communication I
- An introduction to Marketing
- Science Applied to Design
- Colour and Form
- Foundation Project II
- Representation Techniques II
- Project Communication II
- Technical Drawing I
- Sociology
- Volume I
- The History of Art and Design
2nd YEAR
- Multidisciplinary Workshop I
- Technology for Product Design I
- Representation Techniques for Product Design I
- Technical Project
- Technical Drawing for Product Design I
- Semiotics
- Packaging Project
- Interdisciplinary Project
- Computer Tools for Product Design
- Ergonomics Project
- Styling Project
- History of Product Design
- Volume for Product Design
- Domestic Project
3rd YEAR
- Project Communication for Product Design I
- Lighting Project
- Lab for Product Design I
- Two Wheels Project
- Computer Tools for Product Design II
- Multidisciplinary Workshop II
- Technology for Product Design II
- Urban Materials Project
- Trends
- Marketing for Product Design
- Textile-mobile Project
- Personal Development Project
4th YEAR
- Professional Internship
- Design Management Project
- Project Communication for Product Design II
- Ephemeral Project
- Mobility Project
- Lab for Product Design II
- Multidisciplinary Workshop III
- Final Project
Price
Fee for two semesters (1 year) is 16100.00 EUR for international students
Requirements for applicants
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
- Age - be 18 years old by December 31st of the first year of the course;
- Transcripts of their last year of high school (or equivalent, translated into English or Spanish)
- Motivational Letter (500-600 words). Tell us why you’ve chosen this Course and why you want to study with us.
- Submit a 500-600 words essay
LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS
To prove their proficiency in the required language, the applicant must either:
- submit one of the accepted language certificates listed in the table below (the certificate cannot have been awarded more than 2 years before the application is made to IED);
- take the IED language assessment.
RECOGNISED CERTIFICATES
- IELTS Academic ≥ 5.5
- Cambridge C2 Proficiency (CPE)
- Cambridge B2 First (FCE)
- Cambridge C1 Advanced (CAE)
- B2 Vantage Bulats ≥ 60 (All 4 skills should be passed: listening, reading, speaking and writing)
- TOEFL IBT ≥ 68
- PTE Academic ≥ 59
- ISE Level II (All 4 skills should be passed: listening, reading, speaking and writing)
- ISE Level III (All 4 skills should be passed: listening, reading, speaking and writing)
- ISE Level IV (All 4 skills should be passed: listening, reading, speaking and writing)
About the university
Since 1966, we have been the largest Higher Education Network in the creative area to keep both a worldwide perspective and a strongly Italian cultural matrix.
Our educational strategy has evolved over time, but at its core remains the same: we mix theoretical study with hands-on experience and the expertise of working experts. One of the things we emphasize in our classes is always thinking ahead, in the here and now. We are a diverse, multidisciplinary institution that views design as a tool for social transformation.
Among the many international academic networks in which we participate are Cumulus, Elia, and WDO, just to name a few.
Campuses
In the 1970s and 1980s, we expanded to Rome (1973), Cagliari (1984), and Turin (1989) in Italy.
Beginning in 1994 with the Madrid campus and continuing on to Barcelona in 2002, Spain's modern era began in the 1990s.
The Group also spread internationally, establishing a presence in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2005, and then in Venice, Italy, in 2007, Florence, Italy, in 2009, and Como, Italy, in 2009, with the acquisition of the Aldo Galli Academy of Fine Arts. The Group expanded its footprint in Brazil in 2014 by renovating the Cassino da Urca and opening a campus in Rio de Janeiro; in 2020, the Group will expand its presence in Spain by purchasing the Centro Superior de Diseo Kunsthal in Bilbao.
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