Graduate in Design

Product Design

This programme enables students to design innovative products and services with a focus on the circular economy. Through advanced design processes, practical activities and stimulating laboratory exercises, students engage in real-world challenges and collaborate with industry. The programme works on design from a strategic perspective, emphasising emerging technologies, sustainability and user-centred approaches. By exploring different product typologies in various industrial sectors, students develop the skills needed to create critically-minded solutions capable of responding to society's emerging challenges.

Profile

Creative processes and tangible outcomes

Projects

Critical, practice-based and contextual learning

Objectives

Structure, content and learning progression

Curriculum

Year — 1
Contextual Studies 90 HC 9 ECTS
Product Project 240 HC 24 ECTS
Product Design Lab 90 HC 12 ECTS
Advanced Virtual Modelling 90 HC 9 ECTS
Product Engineering 90 HC 6 ECTS
Year — 2

HC — Contact Hours · ECTS — European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System

Dialogue between design, industry and culture

Ecosystem

Aligned with the latest professional practices, it allows students to collaborate annually with various companies and industries on projects, competitions, research incentives and internships within the curriculum. 

  • Aloft Amorim
  • Top Series
  • Boa Safra
  • CEIIA
  • CITEVE
  • Everythink
  • Hamilton Conte
  • Koke
  • Pixartidea
  • Laboratório de Design Advançado
  • Limalha
  • Mesa Cerâmica
  • TMG Group
  • OpoLab
  • Precious Plastic Portugal
  • Vito

Teaching, practice and research

Lecturers

Events

Specialization Courses

The Specialization Courses (60 ECTS) ensure access to the 2nd year of the Master's Degree in Design.

Year 2026–2027

Tuition Fee

Enriching lives, opening minds

Erasmus+

Erasmus+, funded by the European Commission, supports personal and professional development across the European Union through mobility, training, and cooperation between organisations.

Evaluate the possibilities

Scholarships

Graduate 2025–2026

Calendar

Atividades letivas

Graduate

Ano letivo · 06.10.2025 — 30.06.2026

Final — Unidades curriculares — Anuais (1.º ano) · 30.06.2026

School closures

Sr. Matosinhos · 25 — 26.05.2026

Assessments

Publication

Anuais — Unidades curriculares — 1.º ano · 01 — 07.07.2026

Exams

Unidades curriculares anuais · 08 — 09.07.2026

Época especial · 03 — 04.09.2026

Administrative Services

Contacts

For information on applications, admission or scholarships at ESAD, the Administrative Services team is available to assist by email or telephone, Monday to Friday, from 8:30 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 17:00 (in August, morning opening is at 9:00).

Awards

Graduate in Design

Craft Meaningful Experiences.

The Master’s in Design offers a high-quality education aimed at addressing complex and rapidly evolving social challenges. It integrates practice, research, and strong links to industry, with the participation of international guest speakers in conferences and workshops. It promotes specialisation and the consolidation of essential methodological, practical, and theoretical skills.