Welcome to Product Design
SETU Carlow Campus
For 50 years we have been growing Product Design in Carlow and inspiring creative approaches to problem solving human problems. We take great pride in in our heritage of being the longest running Product Design course in Ireland. This site is for anyone interested in Design, whether you are considering design as a career, a past graduate of Product Design Carlow, or thinking of employing a graduate designer.
What is Design
Product design is a creative problem solving activity. Designers identify human centred problems and design solutions that address needs, wants, limitations and desires.
Design education develops skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, decision making, flexibility and working as part of a team that are hugely transferable to other fields. Notable roles design graduates dovetail with seamlessly include, product engineer, medical devices, UX/UI designer, graphic designer, 3D Digital modeller, prototyping engineer, project manager and researcher.
Becoming a product designer opens a world of opportunity. It is a career that is engaging, challenging, fulfilling and a lot of fun.
Studying Product Design in SETU
We are located on the Carlow campus of the South East Technological University, Ireland.
Product Design is a hands on practical based programme where students learn through doing. We offer a boutique studio based design education with small class sizes which, allows for more contact time with lecturers.
Each year group has a dedicated studio space where students have the freedom to apply their creativity through project based learning. In conjunction with the studio, students have access to a dedicated workshop for model making and testing ideas. There is also access to dedicated computer labs, and state of the art software for digital 3D modelling and visual communication.
