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 School of Art & Design at Nottingham Trent University and we are what we create.
Latest News
NTU fashion students collaborate with WildBrain’s Teletubbies in competitive design exercise to create innovative apparel collection designs
Tue 31 Aug 2021
NTU graphic design graduates recognised at the D&AD New Blood Awards
Thu 29 Jul 2021
NTU students deliver a creative response to the climate crisis through the Rebel Tartan Project
Fri 23 Jul 2021
Success for NTU at i-Dott Surface Pattern Design Competition 2021
Thu 22 Jul 2021
Twelve studios set industry briefs for NTU Graphic Design students
Tue 20 Jul 2021
Successful night for NTU students at the Nottingham Young Creatives Awards
Wed 07 Jul 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.
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.
Design Research Centre
Design Research Centre
A world leading interdisciplinary group of design researchers and practitioners operating across the University, driven by an aim to foster new approaches to design thinking, design enquiry, design implementation and the use of the latest design techniques and related technologies.
Advanced Textiles
Advanced Textiles
The Advanced Textiles Research Group is led by Professor Tilak Dias. The focus of the group is on electronic textiles with the aim of developing a truly wearable computer. Located within the School of Art and Design, the Research Group forms strong cross-disciplinary links with colleagues in the artistic and fashion areas.
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.
Fashion and Textile Research Centre
Fashion and Textile Research Centre
Fashion and Textiles represents a complex field in a global context and as such researchers in this centre focus upon a number of different aspects of the discipline. There are currently six research groups within the centre focusing on cultures, heritage, design, business. clothing sustainability and advanced textiles.
Artistic Research Centre
Artistic Research Centre
The Artistic Research Centre at NTU is constituted by an interdisciplinary collegiate research environment with an ambition to continue to be at the forefront of innovation in artistic research processes. The Centre supports, both within and beyond the University, a breadth of investigations, networks, collaborators, sharing insights and interpretations in order to reflect its broad range of research activities, processes and practices.
Our latest publications
Some characteristics of narrow woven elastics
Into the newsroom: using actor network theory to investigate the construction of news facts
Political fictions in contemporary French cinema
New forms of organising: context, action and transitional processes
The investigation of the museum as a site of control, memory and loss by expression in installation and sculptural form
An investigation of the physical and electrical properties of knitted electrodes when subjected to multi-axial compression and abrasion
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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