Industrial Design
Industrial designers invent, visualise, and prototype design solutions to complex problems in the form of new products and services. For more than 60 years the Industrial Design course at RMIT in Melbourne has offered aspiring designers applied and industry linked immersions into the diverse and dynamic fields of industrial design. Here commercially oriented and user-centred approaches to design are encountered through design as a critically engaged mode of enquiry. This includes product design, transportation design and furniture design, the design of sustainable products/services/systems, and the design of technologically and materially mediated interactions and experiences.
The four-year full-time undergraduate Industrial Design course gives significant scope to explore established and emerging disciplinary concerns through learning by actively designing. This program prepares you to be a locally and internationally attuned designer capable of working across a range of specialist and sub-disciplinary domains, and within a variety of enterprise scales including small, medium and multinational organizations. Graduates of Industrial Design at RMIT University work as designers; in the design studio departments of technology, engineering and automotive manufacturing companies; for design consultancies that deliver solutions to the design needs of production oriented organizations, and; for enterprises that focus on the provision of services including government and non-government organizations in the entertainment, education, environmental and cultural sectors. Many graduates start their own design services or product producing businesses, often in niche and in emerging fields of design and contemporary craft practice. Other graduates are employed in cross-disciplinary design, strategy, and research and development roles within the, manufacturing, construction and services sectors.
The Industrial Design program provides a preparation for postgraduate study, such as a Masters of Design by Research degree.