Product Design at the Kansas City Art Institute

Available to students entering their sophomore year in fall 2020, KCAI is offering a new kind of product design program for the 21st century – informed by industry, appealing to students and relevant for today’s design-conscious world. Product design students will imagine, invent and make objects that creatively respond to global challenges and solve contemporary design problems. The program will prepare future designers to be agents of change through the objects, systems and businesses they create.

At the core of this program is the KCAI Product Design Incubator Hub – a product designer’s launch pad and collaboration space. The Incubator Hub provides designers with resources to transform ideas into successful products and businesses. Product-design students will also gain entrepreneurial skills and business acumen to inform their product ventures. They will have access to courses in entrepreneurship taught by faculty from the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.