We are one of the world’s leading art and design schools and we have been influencing, inspiring and innovating for over 175 years. We are guided by our past, focused on our future, and proud to be shaping what comes next.
Located right in the heart of one of the UK’s most exciting cities, we are surrounded by – and contribute to – an originality, energy and imagination that makes Nottingham a very special place to live, work and create.
From nurturing talent to daring research and collaborations that are shaking up the industry, we are breaking convention, and challenging the very ideas of what is possible for an art and design school.
Our academic departments
Fashion Management, Marketing and Communications
Our Fashion Management, Marketing and Communication (FMMC) department has an excellent reputation for its range and diversity of courses and links with industry.
Fashion, Textiles and Knitwear Design
Our Fashion, Textiles and Knitwear Design department has an excellent reputation for its range of courses, links with industry and enviable resources. That’s why we’ve been ranked in the top 10 UK universities for fashion and textiles.
Visual Arts
The UK’s creative landscape is one of the most inclusive and diverse in the world. We approach visual arts with a collaborative ethos, giving our creative community the expertise to grow their theoretical knowledge and the facilities to build up hands-on practical skills. NTU is the perfect place to turn artistic passion into a career.
Visual Communication
We live and work in a rapidly changing world, where visual communication is in a constant state of flux and evolution.
Our subject areas
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Student Showcase
Introducing the designers, makers, influencers and disruptors who represent the future of the creative industries. Discover the work of the Nottingham School of Art & Design graduating students.
Image credit: Greta Levickyte, BA (Hons) Animation
Design and Digital Arts Building
We are constructing a new building for our Nottingham School of Art & Design. Located on Shakespeare Street, the project will redevelop an important area of the city, becoming a significant landmark that will become a welcoming gateway to the campus and a centre for Nottingham's Creative Industries.
Nottingham School of Art & Design Facilities
We’ve built the perfect spaces for you to create in. From dedicated studios to editing suites, wood, ceramic and textile workshops to an onsite supply shop, we have creative spaces to enable you to learn, develop and acquire the skills and knowledge you will need in your career.
Creative short courses
We offer introductory and professional-level courses delivered by expert tutors in the same studios as our full-time programme, taking advantage of our excellent resources.
Our research groups and centres
Artistic Research Centre
An interdisciplinary collegiate research environment with the ambition to continue to be at the forefront of innovation in artistic research processes.
Design Research Centre
A world leading interdisciplinary group of researchers fostering new approaches to design and the use of the latest design techniques and technologies.
Fashion and Textile Research Centre
Representing a complex field in a global context, research in this centre focuses on cultures, heritage, design, business. clothing sustainability, and advanced textiles.
Advanced Textiles Research Group
A thriving research group and a leading institution for advanced textiles research with a global reputation for designing electronically active wearable technology.
Art Research
'Art Research' is the on-going enquiry carried out by the Fine Art staff and technicians at NTU.
Global Cultures of Textiles and Dress
The GCTD Group aims to promote research in textiles and dress that addresses a wide range of critical and practice-based themes. Focusing on the significance and meaning of textiles and dress across cultures and time, and contextualising them as potent aspects of material and visual culture.
Heritage
The Fashion and Textile Heritage research group has built a strong team of experts in lace history and contemporary creative practice. We deliver innovative cross-disciplinary research, which informs design education and teaching locally, nationally and internationally. Our aim is to deepen an understanding of the importance of the lace industry in forming local and regional identities, and to inspire innovative creative practices for future economic and cultural benefits.
Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021
In the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, 86% of NTU's research impact was assessed to be either world-leading or internationally excellent. The overall quality of each Unit of Assessment NTU submitted to REF in 2021 also saw an improvement from the previous REF in 2014.
Latest news
Sustainability in Enterprise project hits milestone of supporting over 200 locals SMEs
Mon 24 Oct 2022
Expert Blog: How Gen Z are using the past to feel positive about the future
Fri 21 Oct 2022
Clothing embedded with 1,200 tiny solar panels illuminates future of wearable tech
Fri 14 Oct 2022
Clothes made from fish skin deliver a message about sustainability
Mon 18 Jul 2022
Historic Market Wall brought back to life in augmented reality
Mon 11 Jul 2022
NTU x THE VERY GROUP: adaptive fashion project 2022
Mon 20 Jun 2022
Upcoming events
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Oct
Bonington Vitrines #19: Control Magazine
Bonington Gallery, Bonington Building, Dryden Street, Nottingham, NG1 4GG
10
Oct
Stephen Willats: Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs
Bonington Gallery, Bonington Building, Dryden Street, Nottingham, NG1 4GG
12
Jan
Professor Katherine Townsend Inaugural Lecture
Lecture Theatre 3, Newton building, Goldsmith Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU
20
Jan
Exhibition Launches – Patois Banton and Spaces of Translation
Bonington Gallery, Bonington Building, Dryden Street, Nottingham, NG1 4GG
21
Jan
Cedar Lewisohn: Patois Banton
Bonington Gallery, Bonington Building, Dryden Street, Nottingham, NG1 4GG
Our latest publications
Encapsulating soldered electronic components for electronically functional yarn
Finite-element analysis of the mechanical stresses on the core structure of electronically functional yarns
Creating a surrogate artificial liver using 3D printing and mechanical characterisation of hepatic tissues for tumour removal education
Electronic textiles and product lifetimes: teardowns
Reinventing Sneakers [panel member]
Twist-hands and shuttle-kissing: understanding industrial craft skills via embodied and distributed cognition
Featured Facility: Bonington Gallery
Located within the Nottingham School of Art & Design, Bonington Gallery works with practitioners and institutions from across Europe and beyond.