YEAR 02:
You don’t just have ideas anymore, you learn how to make them real.
Live Industry Projects
You take on more complex, real-world briefs and begin working more like a designer in practice. Through individual and group projects, you respond to feedback, develop stronger solutions, and build confidence in how you communicate and deliver your work.
Design in a Wider Context
Year 2 deepens your understanding of the design process and how design thinking applies to real problems. You’ll start connecting what you learn in class to what you do in studio — using design theory in practical ways to support creativity, clearer decision-making, and stronger outcomes.
Practical Studio Learning
This is a project-focused year where learning happens through doing. You’ll keep refining key skills through CAD, prototyping, testing, and iteration, with regular guidance and studio critique, and you can focus on development and progress without the pressure of formal exams.
By the end of Year 2, you’ll produce a stronger, more developed portfolio that reflects more complex studio projects, deeper process work, and both individual and group outcomes. It shows how you take an idea further exploring, testing, refining, and presenting a clear final solution. See student examples below — click and explore. You’ll build this work through ongoing studio practice and feedback across the year.
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Your Second Year Journey In SETU Design
Ergonomic Model Making
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Research Methods
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International Design Trip
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Guest Speakers
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Futurists Ai Project
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Model Finishing
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Live Industry Projects
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Branding & Packaging
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Visionary Voices
In Year 2, learning design history in our International Design Movements module isn’t just about essays.
You explore influential designers and movements through creative projects like videos, presentations, and visual research, building confidence in how you communicate ideas, not just how you write about them.
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Competitions
The Smarter Travel Student Awards invite students to develop projects that support, facilitate and/or enable sustainable and/or active travel to, from, and around campus, aligned with their field of study and interests.
Product Design at SETU has a strong track record in the awards, with finalists and winners in recent years across both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
