Many graduates have gone on to pursue careers in higher education, holding positions as lecturers or obtaining further degrees. Others have been appointed as curators in a variety of museums, including: the National Gallery, Bowes Museum, Design Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum, Geffrye Museum, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and Victoria and Albert Museum in Britain; and overseas at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Frick Collection in New York, Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, Design Exchange in Toronto, and Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Tasmania.

Former students hold lecturing positions and professorships at many colleges and universities throughout the British Isles, including: Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen; Brighton University; Central St Martins College of Art and Design; National College of Art and Design, Dublin; Kingston University; Leeds Metropolitan University; London College of Fashion; Ravensbourne College of Art and Design; Royal College of Art; and Wolverhampton University. Internationally, graduates from the course now teach as far afield as Canada, Germany, Sweden and Japan.

Another career direction graduates have taken is towards design practice, working for firms like Tomato, Habitat, SCP, Colefax & Fowler, Fitch and Vitra. Others have worked for auction houses, as buyers for stores like Conran and Max Mara, or for organisations such as the BBC, British Council, Design Council, English Heritage, National Trust, Royal Institute of British Architects and Royal Society of Arts.

Our students have also made a significant impact on the media, producing and researching for television and radio and writing for publications such as Blueprint, Design Week, The Face, I-D, Icon, things, Eye, Form, and Metropolis. Others now work as freelance consultants and curators, having launched their own innovative agencies (such as Scarlet Projects and Gieben+Wulf Cultural Research) dedicated to promoting the practice and study of design and material culture.

See Alumni for more information.