Design and Technology (Product Design)

Course summary

The famous industrial designer Charles Eames once said “Design should bring the most of the best to the greatest number of people for the least”. A-Level Product Design at Foxford endeavours to equip students with necessary skills and technical knowledge to make Eames’ ideal a reality. The course has a substantial alumni of past design students that have captured a passion for design and continued to follow that career path at university. If you are curious about how things work, always see a way of improving existing products and want to shape the future of design, then this is the course for you. This qualification is linear. Linear means that students will sit all their exams and submit all their non-exam assessment at the end of the course. 1. Core technical principles 2. Core designing and making principles 3. Additional specialist knowledge