Chulalongkorn University was the first institution in Thailand to institute, in 1943, an undergraduate degree programme in Industrial Design, in which graphic communication design and new media design was integrated. Since then the department has been continually developed to suit the shifting needs of the Thai industry. Chulalongkorn University’s Department of Industrial Design has been regarded
as one of the leading design educations in Thailand, notable for methodical design process and nurturing creativity in the country’s future designers. Our students have won many national and international design awards; and our graduates are now successfully working as design practitioners, or in related fields, both in Thailand and internationally. In 2010 the department’s undergraduate programme in industrial design (the Thai programme) was radically overhauled. The former five-year programme is now replaced by the newly developed four-year bachelor programme in industrial design. This will enable industrial design students to be more specialised in their chosen fields, and will broaden the department’s creative horizon through students’ self-driven inter-disciplinary projects. This will be supported by the department’s faculties with their various expertise within design fields, including product design, textile design, ceramic design, interior design, jewelry design, packaging design, and graphic communication design. Both ID (Thai programme) and CommDe (international programme) students study side by side within the same premises of the department and share many facilities, such as libraries, studios, workshops, auditoriums, exhibition spaces, etc. This certainly provides you with a richly dynamic environment in which you can exchange and learn from each other.
