Design engages with the world around us and discovers opportunities for positive change. Studying design at The Glasgow School of Art enables students to actively participate in shaping our world. We are committed to the development of design education, practice and research, which takes place in a highly creative environment. The Design School at the GSA are leaders in design education and one of Design Weeks HOT 50.

Design at the GSA covers a wide spectrum of activity comprising the departments of silversmithing and jewellery product design, product design engineering, interior design, fashion and textiles and communication design including illustration, graphics and photography.  The diversity of our specialisms is bound together by a common goal - to enable students to achieve excellence in their chosen field.

Learning and teaching is studio-based, complemented by a programme from the Forum for Critical Inquiry, with visiting lecturers, critics and honorary professors.

Studying design at GSA encourages self-motivation and sustained independent learning. Each programme employs a variety of learning and teaching methods including lectures, seminars, talks, presentations and group discussions, individual or group tutorials, projects, practical workshops and critical reviews that fully engage with the different subject areas.

GSA Design School students are successful and a high number go on to postgraduate study, while others choose to develop their career in the creative industries, with many setting up their own businesses or working for major international companies.

Our students are successful and win awards at for example New Designers, the DN&D New Blood Awards in London and Scottish Screen Awards. They are also highly sougth after reflected in the myriad of career paths they choose to follow.

And above all they are designers.

Head of School of Design and Professor of Design:

Professor Irene McAra McWilliam MA FRSA

Contact: +44 (0) 141 353 141 4472 design@gsa.ac.uk