Университет Де Монфорт, BA (Hons), Footwear Design

Throughout the course your shoe design and technical making skills will be developed, emphasising the crucial relationship between design and manufacture and the needs of the footwear industry.

You will develop your design, research, drawing and illustration skills, and the ability to present and communicate ideas and concepts to a high professional standard. This includes a series of shoe design projects focusing on a comprehensive range of footwear styles. You will learn technical modern shoemaking skills and make a range of prototype shoes of your own using excellent specialist studio facilities including 3D design equipment.

Why choose this programme?

• Students regularly win awards at national and international competitions
  such as Lineapelle in Bologna which endorses our status as a top-class footwear design course
• Graduate employment is over 90 per cent
  thanks to our worldwide links with the footwear industry
• Alexander McQueen, Jimmy Choo and Kurt Geiger 
  are just some of the companies where work experience and placement opportunities are available
• Work opportunities on live projects 
  set by companies and organisations such as Jeffery West, Irregular Choice, Gola and Gap provide a diverse range of relevant skills
• Hugely successful graduates
  have launched careers with Gucci, L.K.Bennett, Irregular Choice and Kurt Geiger both in the UK and Overseas
• Core workshop materials
  available at no cost to our students along with some programme-specific workshop materials - find out more
• Cash awards of £150, £200 and £300
  for students in years one, two and three respectively, towards materials and specialist printing

Career opportunities

The course leads to successful careers in footwear design, buying and marketing. Recent graduates are working as designers, buyers or agents for companies such as Gucci, New Balance, L.K.Bennett, Dr. Martens, Irregular Choice, Lacoste, Kickers, Kurt Geiger, Adidas, Dune, Levi’s, Office, Next, Georgina Goodman and Paul Smith, both in the UK and overseas.