After graduation

The qualities you will develop:

It is important for the discipline of product design that you become a designer who enriches the existing professional field and who dares to venture into unexplored territory to discover new approaches.

Our graduates are curious and they excel in interdisciplinary collaboration, dare to experiment and also have the capacity to put their ideas into practice. They are capable of standing on their own two feet, they are flexible and they know how to go about setting up and managing a studio of their own. These skills means you can be of value in the broad field of design in many different ways.

Title and diploma

After successfully completing the Product Design course, you are entitled to use the title of Bachelor of Arts (BA).

This course can be found in the Dutch Central Register of Courses in Higher Education (CROHO) under code 39111. The formal name of the course, under which this study is known in CROHO, is Bachelor of Design. This CROHO name will appear on your diploma.

Starting work

During the course you will get to know the many possibilities in the field and you will choose your own direction in the national or international design world. About 50% of our students work in an international context within one year after graduation. What they do after graduation is very diverse:

• Some start work as freelancers or are employed as designers or industrial designers at a large label, company, institute or studio.
• Others start work as independent product designers. They start their own collections or set up a studio, in partnership with industry or on their own. Our alumni include many successful designers, such as Ineke Hans, Roos Meerman, Marcel Wanders, Frank Kolkman and Tjeerd Veenhoven. During your course, we focus heavily on all aspects of entrepreneurship.
• Some of our alumni choose to work as designers in a multidisciplinary team, in which science, industry and design come together.

 

• Mireille Steinhage graduated with a project about salt and health. She is now doing a master's degree in Material Futures at Central Saint Martins in London. 
• Inventor Roos Meerman runs the successful Fillip Studios with Tom Kortbeek. 
• Aranka Hurkens is working as a footwear designer for Adidas in Germany and as a freelance designer

Continuing your studies

After studying Product Design at higher professional (HBO) level, you can continue your studies on a national or international master's course, for example at the Royal College of Art in London, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London or Aalto University in Helsinki. More and more students are opting for university master's courses in research, biodesign or engineering.

• Iris de Vries graduated with eyewear/surveillance. She went on to do a master's degree in Media Technology at Leiden and now runs her own studio, www.irisdevries.nl.

If you want to obtain a first-level teaching qualification, take the Tailor-Made Fine Art and Design in Education course at ArtEZ. This course is offered in both Zwolle and Arnhem.