Survey the professional landscape of contemporary furniture design. Cultivate both conceptual and technical competencies through hands-on making and critical inquiry. Prepare for real-world opportunities by developing a full scale furniture prototype that considers brand positioning and market demand.Learn key design principles such as form, proportion, composition, scale, ergonomics, and materiality. Complete a design process, integrating research, ideation, sketching, model making, prototyping, and final presentation. Finish with the design and fabrication of a full-scale seating prototype supported by a portfolio entry that includes mood boards, technical drawings, product photography, and complementary graphic materials to tell your furniture product story.