Design - London Metropolitan University

Study design at London Met

Start your journey to becoming a professional designer and innovator who can serve the needs of the capital’s creative economy. Our design degree courses will provide you with the technical, creative and communication skills to enter the worlds of fashion, textiles, furniture, product design, graphics, online, multimedia or games design.

Our design graduates include renowned jewellery designers, award-winning furniture designers, heads of design for well-known lifestyle brands, animators for Iron Man, book cover designers and award-winning textile designers committed to sustainable craft.

Many of our design courses are taught in our School of Art, Architecture and Design, with access to inspiring studio spaces and specialist facilities including wood, metal, plastic and ceramics workshops, fashion and textile studios, and printmaking and letterpress facilities. Our games courses are taught in our School of Computing and Digital Media, where you’ll have access to cutting-edge software and fully equipped computing suites.

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Our undergraduate design courses

Art and Design (including foundation year) - BA (Hons)

Explore a range of subjects during an initial foundation year, and develop the skills you require to progress onto one of our art or design undergraduate degree courses.

Fashion (including foundation year) - BA (Hons)

Our Fashion (including foundation year) is an alternative route into higher education if you can't meet the requirements to enter the three-year undergraduate degree.

Fashion (Top-Up) - BA (Hons)

This exciting degree explores the dynamic field of fashion through visual research, design media, pattern cutting, draping and sewing. You'll develop and explore your individual creativity, honing the techniques and knowledge you need to make your mark.

Fashion - BA (Hons)

You'll work with industry experts and real clients during this fashion degree, to develop the skills and contacts you need in the fashion industry in London. Apply.

Fashion Textiles (including foundation year) - BA (Hons)

Our Fashion Textiles (including foundation year) BA (Hons) is designed to help you build a portfolio and make more informed decisions about your work.

Fashion Textiles - BA (Hons)

London Met's Fashion Textiles BA degree will prepare you for employment in the exciting sector of textile design for apparel. Apply now and start your career.

Games Animation, Modelling and Effects (including foundation year) - BSc (Hons)

This degree has a built-in foundation year, designed to teach you the core skills you'll need to succeed in the following three years of your course.

Games Animation, Modelling and Effects - BSc (Hons)

The Games Animation, Modelling and Effects (GAME) BSc degree course will provide you with the creative skills needed by the games industry. Apply now.

Graphic Design (including foundation year) - BA (Hons)

This four-year course has an in-built foundation year for those who don't have the entry requirements to start a standard three-year undergraduate degree in graphic design.

Graphic Design (Top-up) - BA (Hons)

On our Graphic Design BA (Top-up) degree you will develop specialist skills and learn how to reach your audience through innovative design.

Graphic Design - BA (Hons)

Gain access to the latest developments within the graphic designing industry and develop your skills with London Met's Graphic Design course. Apply now!

Architecture and Interior Design Extended Degree

Interior Architecture and Design (including foundation year) - BA (Hons)

This Interior Architecture and Design course includes a foundation year to help you build a portfolio while preparing to start your undergraduate degree. Apply now.

Interior Architecture and Design (Top-up) - BA (Hons)

The top-up Architecture and Interior Design course at London Met is designed to help you complete your qualification. Apply and finish your degree in London.

Interior Architecture and Design - BA (Hons)

London Met's Interior Architecture and Design degree course requires a specialist way of thinking about how we occupy complex interior spaces. Apply now.

Interior Design (including foundation year) - BA (Hons)

This London Met's Interior Design course includes a foundation year to help you enter an undergraduate degree. Apply now and start your degree in London.

Interior Design (Top-up) - BA (Hons)

This Interior Design BA (Top-up) degree will introduce you to the latest research as well as industry professionals. Apply and finish your degree at London Met.

Interior Design - BA (Hons)

The London Met Interior Design course gives you the skills to be an interior designer - covering everything from traditional drawing methods to state-of the-art graphics packages. Apply now!

Interior Design and Decoration (including foundation year) - BA (Hons)

This Interior Design and Decoration course includes a foundation year as an alternative route into an undergraduate degree. Apply now and start your degree.

Studio 1: Unspoken Revolution - Janette Harris and Liz Freemont

Interior Design and Decoration (Top-up) - BA (Hons)

This top-up Interior Design and Decoration course will draw upon the wide range of contexts within the interiors industry. Finish your degree at London Met.

Interior Design and Decoration - BA (Hons)

London Met's Interior Design and Decoration degree course helps you embrace decorative interior environments. Apply now and start your career in London.

Product and Furniture Design - BA (Hons)

Our Product and Furniture Design BA degree is taught at the School of Art, Architecture and Design, which has a rich history as the former London College of Furniture.

Textiles (including foundation year) - BA (Hons)

Our Textiles (including foundation year) BA degree has a built-in foundation year that will give you the chance to explore broader art subjects alongside textiles.

Textiles (top-up) - BA (Hons)

This lively and creative course encourages you to explore the industry and apply your skills and ideas to visual research, design and textile making.

Textiles - BA (Hons)

Our Textiles BA degree course is lively and creative, encouraging you to explore the industry and apply your skills and ideas. Apply now and join London Met!

Our postgraduate design courses

Doctor of Philosophy - MPhil / Phd

PhD students at London Metropolitan University benefit from a supportive environment, as well as expert supervision by academics researching in a wide range of disciplines.

Environmental, Sustainable and Regeneration Design - MA

Our Environmental, Sustainable and Regeneration Design MA degree will prepare you for employment in this exciting and expanding field of design.

Furniture Design - MA

Our Furniture Design MA is grounded in the understanding that design is a key driver for change in society and the environment.

Jewellery and Silversmithing - MA

Hone your skills and develop your identity as a designer in this highly-specialised Jewellery and Silversmithing master's course.

Master of Philosophy - MPhil

With this Master of Philosophy programme, you'll benefit from a supportive environment and expert supervision by academics researching in a wide range of disciplines.

Product Design - MA

This research-led, Product Design MA addresses the needs of graduates from product design and related discipline backgrounds, or those who wish to collaborate with professionals in the field.

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Textile Design - MA

This research-led Textile Design MA addresses the needs of graduates or those who wish to collaborate with professionals in the field.

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News and success stories from our design courses

London Met students to display work at historic Devonshire Square Campus

Students from BA Fashion, BA Fashion Photography, and Masters in Fine Art are showing their work at the Devonshire Square Campus art studio, DSQube from 12 April to 2 May 2024.

A selection of products in leather and other materials made by designer simon hasan

Making Matters 2.0

Second annual exhibition by the Making Matters research group featured work by twenty-three members of staff from the School of Art, Architecture and Design

London Met sees Venice Biennale success

Two current students join the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale as Fellows at the British Pavilion 'Dancing Before the Moon', which was curated by a team including London Met alumni

London Met team hosts workshop at the acclaimed Design Museum

Thomas Aquilina and Beatrice De Carli led a workshop, ‘Silent and Speaking: A Workshop on Environmental Justice’ at the Design Museum last month.

Textiles graduate wins major design prize

Nanci Byrne-Lynch has won the Sanderson Design Group Award, and will now take up a 12-month paid internship in one of the Sanderson Design Group studios.

Filth and Finery

The 2022 Graduate Fashion Showcase from The School of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University will take place on 9 June, 5.30pm.

Book launch: Appropriate(d) Interiors

Taking place 23 March at 5pm

A book launch for the latest publication in Pratt Institute’s series Interior Provocations will feature discussion from Dr Harriet McKay from London Met's CREATURE Research Centre.

Talking Textiles

Oliver Morgan, second-year Journalism BA student, interviews course leader for Textiles at London Met, James Hunting, about the success of the course and the industry.

Unity and celebration through colour

London Met grad Yinka Illori served as headline speaker for Design London, and transforms the city’s pedestrian crossings for the London Design Festival.

Exploring Swiss design classics

London Met academics will take part in a fringe event for the Design History Society annual conference.

Contesting Global Fashion through China

Professor of Transcultural Arts and Design and Director of CREATURE, Wessie Ling, will give keynotes at a major fashion conference and for the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen.

Designs by London Met Textiles students set to adorn historic Petticoat Lane Market

Vote now for your favourite designs to be installed at the Market.

two women in chinese military clothing, one traditional, one modern

Fashion in Multiple Chinas

A book co-edited by London Met Professor Wessie Ling has just been released in paperback.

Top designer meets Textiles students

Edward Crutchley spoke to a group of students about careers in design and the power of a good portfolio.

From Mars with Love

A new gallery launched by London Met grad Vanja Bazdulj showcases wearable art, jewellery and objects for extraordinary times.