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Product Design

A Level Product Design

Examination Board: AQA

Product Design offers you an opportunity via a range of practical problem-solving processes to develop the independent learning, creativity and innovation skills and knowledge needed to solve a variety of design problems currently facing society.

The course is intended to reflect the wide-ranging activities of professional designers and develop an understanding of a wide range of materials and processes. You will gain a real understanding of what it means to be a designer, alongside the development of the knowledge and skills sought by higher education and employers.

This creative and thought-provoking qualification gives students the practical skills, theoretical knowledge and confidence to succeed in a number of careers. Especially those in the creative industries.

Project and coursework will contain significant graphic elements; such as coursework presentation, sketching, CAD and modelling. All project work requires a functioning three-dimensional outcome.

This course is best suited to dedicated, creative and hardworking students from the Design and Technology GCSE courses but may also be suitable for those students who have taken Art at GCSE.