Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours)

Are you interested in industrial design? Would you like to create change? This discipline shapes the world we live in. Industrial designers have the ability to affect change and create powerful solutions that improve both human and environmental health and wellbeing.

Exploring the trans-disciplinary nature of contemporary industrial design. You'll engage in practical learning through our practice-based design studios, co-creating solutions through a human centred approach to product, service and experience design contexts.

For over 70 year's industrial design at RMIT has offered aspiring designers ground breaking experiences through technical, theoretical and applied immersions into the diverse and dynamic fields of industrial design practice. Working on real-world problems in industry and community contexts, this hands on educational experience culminates in a year-long honours design research project.

You will develop a design practice through:

• the design of sustainable products, services and systems
• design as a mechanism for enabling social reform and cultural enrichment
• commercial and aesthetically-focused approaches to product, transportation and furniture design
• technologically and materially mediated interactions and experiences
• the possibilities of form, process and material in response to rapid technological advances
• operating at the intersections of our digital and material worlds
• using design as a conduit to address social sustainability, cultural awareness and the wellbeing of clients, users and communities

Centred around a design studio model, you are equipped with unique ways to explore ideas. You'll also challenge conventional paradigms through engaging with local and international design practitioners and build industry networks throughout your studies. These life-changing educational experiences culminate in both social and entrepreneurial approaches to design. You'll gain an adaptive knowledge of making, materials, process, technology, culture and the environment.

Graduates work in a broad range of contexts and settings relevant to new enterprise development, design innovation and the development of contemporary cities.

They can find work in product and manufacturing companies, in consultancy, entertainment, education, cultural and services sectors, and for research institutions.

Cross-disciplinary designers work in emerging fields of design practice, others start and run their own design or product-producing businesses.

The course prepares graduates to undertake Masters by Research or PhD after successful completion of this degree.

Below are some examples of industrial design graduates shaping the design world:

• Mike Simcoe
  Vice President of Global Design General Motors, USA
  

• Laura Morrison and Jaide-Scarlet Begg
  Service Design Analysts at Deloitte Digital
  

• Kyle Armstrong
  Industrial Designer at Katapult Design
  

• Adrian Spagnuolo
  Product Designer at Colorific, a toy design and development distributor
  

• Jiazhen Chen
  Industrial Designer at Wild Design, Shanghai, China
  

• Luca Abate
  Industrial Designer at Blackmagic Design