MA Design: Ceramics, Furniture, Jewellery at Central Saint Martins
The MA Design: Ceramics, Furniture, Jewellery course at Central Saint Martins explores traditional forms of craft through a contemporary and sustainable lens.
Course details
School: Central Saint Martins
Course: MA Design: Ceramics, Furniture, Jewellery
Type: Postgraduate
Location: London, UK
Course dates: September 2027, with a duration of two years (60 weeks), extended full-time
Application deadline: 17 February 2027
Course overview
MA Design: Ceramics, Furniture, Jewellery will develop your creative abilities, imagination and expertise.
Framed within one course, we use design to explore these evolving disciplines, embracing ideas of practice beyond traditional definitions. This creates a range of hybrid practices disrupting assumptions around design, craft and production.
Your creative focus will evolve through a structured process of research, design ideation, exploration, development and evaluation.
What will I learn during this course?
The course encourages its students to expand their skills intellectually, contextually and practically, extending and exploiting design strategies from their own and other disciplines.
To question and test ideas through teamwork, collaborations and group critiques.
What are the requirements?
Students must have an honours degree or an equivalent EU/international qualification.
English language requirements are also required, including IELTS (International English Language Testing System) level 6.5 or above, with at least 5.5 in reading, writing, listening and speaking (please check our main English language requirements webpage).
What facilities and resources are available?
Students on this course have term-time access to a range of open technical facilities, including:
- loan store
- digital fabrication bureau
- digital labs
- digital print
- paint/surface
- photography studios
- 3D capture lab
- casting
This course also has term-time access to specialist facilities, including:
- digital make
- 3D make
- ceramics
- jewellery
What career prospects can I expect upon graduating?
Through the professional experience of the teaching team there are strong links with commercial, artistic, craft and industrial bodies in London, nationally and internationally.
Over the duration of the MA, meetings with practitioners, industry professionals, and participants in the wider design community will enable you to learn to communicate effectively across a range of different environments.
Graduates move speedily into self-employment, developing businesses at the highest levels, finding opportunities to progress their independent practice at both a national and international level.
These include students showing work at the Victoria Miro Gallery and Sotheby’s and collection designs for Swarovski, Made, Topshop and House of Fraser.
Who teaches this course?
Simon Fraser, course leader.
