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.
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.
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.
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
Writing alternative fashion worlds: frustrations, fictions and imaginaries
Prototyping fictional fashion worlds: how can textiles help us to imagine realities beyond the present?
Urban physical food environments drive dietary behaviours in Ghana and Kenya: a photovoice study
These shoes were made for talking: documenting identity through the lens of footwear
Joint angle, range of motion, force, and moment assessment: responses of the lower limb to ankle plantarflexion and dorsiflexion
When the shoe fits
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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