(Materials and Model Making)

Rock Galpin

This course is suitable for those who have attended a previous furniture design course and wish to further develop their work in three dimensions, or for those who simply wish to get their hands dirty and develop their skills in model making. The course is part studio-based, but mainly workshop-based and will train you in how to work with card, board, wire, rod, mesh, foam, wood metal and plastics. You will be supervised and guided by workshop technicians to develop either your own furniture designs or your own furniture models. Combined with the other two-parts of the intermediate furniture design programme you may use this course to aid applications for design research, management and marketing courses, or furniture design and product design courses. However, the course may also be taken independently of the other two components as it is suitable for those that have practiced design, or who have a strong interest in furniture design.

Rock Galpin is a London-based furniture designer and the 2005 winner of The Laurent Perrier Design Award. He teaches furniture design part time on the BA (Hons) Product Design course at Central Saint Martins and runs the international design consultancy, Rock Galpin Studio, set up in 1995, specialising in furniture and interior design.