Student Handbook 2009
Centre for Design Research
School of Design
Welcome to the School of Design at Northumbria University
A thriving design community with more that 1200 students and almost 100 staff, our school has an international reputation for innovation and real world creativity.
We started out over 150 years ago and since then hundreds of thousands of students have come through our doors and gone on to pursue successful careers in design.
We are justifiably proud of this track record and make no apologies saying that when it comes to education - we believe we have a lot more to offer than most.
World's Most Influential
We often say that when it comes to design education
we believe we’ve got a lot more to offer than most. Well, now we know
it’s true as Jonathan Ive and Tim Brown, both educated at the School of
Design, have just been named in Business Week’s list of the World’s Most Influential Designers.
For more information on Jonathan and Tim and some of our other illustrious alumni click here.
How to Apply
From 2010 design courses will no longer recruit through
Route B. You may apply from September but all applications must be made
through Route A. To read all about the application procedures for the
School of Design, please visit our new How to Apply section now.
New Decade, New Dean
For us, 2010 not only marks the beginning of a new
decade, but the start of an exciting new era as we have been joined by our
new Dean, Steven Kyffin.
Steven, previously Senior Global Director of Design Research at Phillips,
is also a graduate of the School so we're glad to welcome him back to lead
us through a new decade of inspirational new developments in design
education, practice and research.
And the winner is...
So far the school has won 3 RSA Design Directions awards and 2 prestigious Yellow Pencil Awards at D&AD. The school also picked up 4 awards at Graduate Fashion Week including the coveted Fashion Innovation Award and one further award was presented to one of our final year Fashion Design students by Max Mara. 5 of our Graphics students were awarded membership at the ISDT awards and to top this all of, we received 4 awards at New Designers including New Designer of the Year.
2009 Award Winners
Northumbria University School of Design London welcomes new Head of Division, Sean Chiles
The School of Design London is delighted to welcome Sean
Chiles to the new post of Head of Division effective 1st July 2009.
Sean is a fashion graduate of St. Martin's School of Art and is an active Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (serving as a judge on the annual Student Design Awards). Sean's role as Head of Division will be instrumental in driving the strategic direction of the School of Design London forward. He brings with him extensive international experience in design and buying direction at PLC board level, creative lateral thinking with specific interest in design integrity and intellectual property development, and global experience of design studio project development, management and implementation in remote and under-developed locations to ISO 9001 standards.
A true global player, Sean has worked with fashion lead organisations in China, Japan, India, The United States, Spain, Italy, Australia, Turkey and Korea. His emphasis on international experience marries with the positioning of the School of Design London in the global education and business sectors.
4 New Innovation Postgraduate Courses - Scholarships Available...
Northumbria University School of Design London has launched four innovative new postgraduate courses starting January 2010:
- MA Fashion Management and Entrepreneurship
- MA Lifestyle Trend & Publication (subject to validation)
- MA Consumer Lifestyle Retail Behaviour (subject to validation)
- MA Creative Intellectual Property Development and Protection (subject to
validation)
To find out more information on each of these courses click here.
