Overview

Are you interested in industrial design? Would you like to create change? This discipline shapes the world we live in.

Industrial designers have the ability to affect change and create powerful solutions that improve both human and environmental health and wellbeing.

Exploring the trans-disciplinary nature of contemporary industrial design, you'll engage in hands-on learning through our practice-based design studios, co-creating solutions through a human centred approach to product, service and experience design contexts.

For more than 70 years, industrial design at RMIT has offered aspiring designers groundbreaking experiences through technical, theoretical and applied immersions into the diverse and dynamic fields of industrial design practice. Working on real-world problems in industry and community contexts, this hands-on educational experience culminates in a year-long honours design research project. 

Why study industrial design at RMIT?

Graduate job-ready

Work on real-world projects within industry and community organisations.

Global connections

Take part in an overseas exchange at one of several international centres of manufacturing.

Professional associations

On completion, you will be eligible to join a number of professional societies.

You will develop a design practice through:

• the design of sustainable products, services and systems
• design as a mechanism for enabling social reform and cultural enrichment
• commercial and aesthetically focused approaches to product, transportation and furniture design
• technologically and materially mediated interactions and experiences
• the possibilities of form, process and material in response to rapid technological advances
• operating at the intersections of our digital and material worlds
• using design as a conduit to address social sustainability, cultural awareness and the wellbeing of clients, users and communities