Furniture Design & Making 1

Description

This course allows you to learn an amazing craft while exploring your creativity. Through our workshop-based learning you can develop competency with hand tools and woodworking machinery. From traditional woodworking methods, progress to machine and digital fabrication in our fully equipped workshops and studio spaces. You will also learn life drawing, technical graphics and CAD tools which support your design and making process.

Our workshop is more than an educational space, it is a creative environment where you learn as much from your class colleagues as you do from the tutors. Work experience, field trips and expert talks complete the experience.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:

• Leaving Certificate or equivalent.

• All applicants are interviewed, and places are awarded on suitability.

• Mature students without formal qualifications are most welcome to apply.

DURATION:

This is a one-year course but students on successful completion of year one may progress to Furniture Design & Making 2.

CERTIFICATION:

• QQI Level 5 in Furniture Design & Making (5M2012).

COURSE CONTENT:

The following subjects may be offered:

Furniture Making - 5N1275

The heart of the furniture making course is the bench work. Here you will use all the traditional main woodworking hand tools accurately and precisely to achieve professional standard of woodwork. You will also learn how to use woodwork machinery to process rough timber making it ready for joining and shaping at the bench. Colouring and finishing by hand or in the spray booth will also be part of your skillset.

Design Skills - 5N0784

Drawing - 5N1862

Computer Aided Design (2D) - 5N1604

Materials and Finishes - 5N1456

Problem Solving - 5N1615

Work Experience - 5N1356

EDUCATION PROGRESSION OPPORTUNITIES:

Excellent progressions opportunities including:

• Cork College of FET, Tramore Road Campus: Furniture Design & Making 2.

• ATU: Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Furniture Design and Manufacture, ATU, Galway (AU681).

• ATU: Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Furniture Making and Architectural Woodworking, ATU, Galway (AU682).

• ATU: Furniture Design, Making and Technology, ATU, Galway (AU683).

Students who wish to use the links to further studies will need to attain a certain level of achievement in their QQI award.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES:

Career opportunities exist as furniture makers in furniture workshops or as self-employed makers after a suitable period of professional experience. Skills learned on the course are also relevant to a range of wood-based trades, interior design, fitting and product design activities.

TESTIMONIALS & HIGHLIGHTS:

Graduates:

• Sean Bourke, https://www.instagram.com/de_burca_bespoke_furniture/

• James McDonald, https://www.instagram.com/jmcdfurniture/

• Lorraine Dwyer, Lorraine Dwyer Design, www.instagram.comlorrainedwyerdesign /, lorrainedwyerdesign.com

• Trevor Mee, Mountain Woodwork, https://www.instagram.com/mountain_woodwork/

• Michael McFadden, https://www.instagram.com/leachim81/

• Rory Drinan, Rory Makes, https://www.instagram.com/rorymakes/

• Ciaran Lynch, By_ciaran, https://www.instagram.com/by_ciaran/