We Are Innovators. We Are Thinkers. We Are Creatives.
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.
Inspired by a love for our craft, we are committed to pushing its boundaries into new territories. If this sounds like you too, then come and tell your story with us.
You will be part of a community of thousands united by passion, drive and hard work. You will feel the guidance that comes from the decades of experience of our subject experts and the buzz of infinite possibility of those just taking their first steps.
We are all contemporaries, collaborators and change-makers. And together we can turn what we love into how we live.
We are the Nottingham School of Art & Design at Nottingham Trent University and we are what we create.
Latest News
School of Art & Design will now be named Nottingham School of Art & Design
Fri 19 Nov 2021
NTU Student wins DFA Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award
Wed 17 Nov 2021
NTU Young Creative Awards winners have their work showcased in Nottingham businesses
Wed 17 Nov 2021
NTU Costume Design student works on Oliver Twist at Leeds Playhouse
Tue 16 Nov 2021
BA (Hons) Photography students worked published in major publication and exhibition
Tue 16 Nov 2021
Fashion students attend design brief workshop with iconic Nottingham designer
Tue 12 Oct 2021
Our Research Groups and Centres
Art Research
Art Research
'Art Research' is the on-going enquiry carried out by the Fine Art staff and technicians at NTU.
Advanced Textiles Research Group
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.
Artistic Research Centre
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
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
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.
Global Cultures of Textiles and Dress
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
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.
Our latest publications
Using an inertial motion unit to find the optimal location to continuously monitor for near falls
The design student's handbook: your essential guide to course, context and career
Holy Riders. Constantine the Great and the seals of Baldwin II
If shoes could talk... How a student led research project generated collaboration, peer learning and the co-creation of knowledge
Writing alternative fashion worlds: frustrations, fictions and imaginaries
Prototyping fictional fashion worlds: how can textiles help us to imagine realities beyond the present?
We're ranked 16th in the UK for Fashion and Textiles. (Guardian University Guide League Tables 2021)
We're ranked 12th in the UK for Art and Design education. (The Complete University Guide 2021)
We’re ranked Top 15 in the UK for Design & Crafts. (Guardian University Guide League Tables 2021)
96% of our undergraduate students are in graduate level study within six months of finishing their studies. (latest DLHE survey 2016/17)
NTU is among the top 10% of art and design education providers in the world. (QS World University Rankings 2019)
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