Discover our courses
Beginners, improvers and professionals are all welcome to attend a short course where you'll meet other adult learners who share your interests to achieve personal and professional goals.
Courses run during evenings and weekends as well as intensive, week long courses during the summer.
If you'd like to discuss which course is right for you or have additional questions we'd love to help! You can email us or give us a call on +44 (0)115 848 2813.
Adobe After Effects for Motion Graphics
Are you a designer who’d like to learn how to add animation to their designs? Are you a content creator interested in producing your own animated logos, maybe for your YouTube channel or website? If so, this is the course for you.
Adobe Illustrator
Create professional quality graphics for either artistic pursuits or professional projects. Consolidate your skills and learn the most efficient ways of working in the software directly from an expert with years of knowledge and experience.
Adobe InDesign
This two day course will introduce you to the key functions of Adobe InDesign as well as teach you industry level tips, tricks and shortcuts from our expert tutors, so that you can really level up your design skills.
Adobe Photoshop
This course is suitable for anyone looking to apply Adobe Photoshop to either artistic pursuits or professional projects. It’s also ideal if you’ve attempted to learn the basics online and would like to consolidate your skills and learn the most efficient ways of working in the software, as you’ll be learning directly from an expert with years of knowledge and experience.
AI Essentials
Have you heard about generative AI and want to know how you can effectively make use of it, to enhance both your and your organisation's business activities? This one day short course will give you a crash course in generative AI and its capabilities, focusing on the use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Animation for Beginners
Embark on a journey into the world of animation! Through practical projects, you’ll develop your skills in hand-drawn and digital software using a range of tools and techniques to create animations and express your artistic vision.
Blender 3D
On this course you will learn the basics of using Blender 3D Creation Suite, which introduces modern digital asset creation techniques and can be utilised across creative industries such as animation, architecture, product design and fashion.
Botanical Drawing and Illustration
Do you have an interest in the natural world either as a result of hobbies (gardening, horticulture or painting) or through employment (landscape designers, conservationists and botanists)? This course will develop your knowledge and skills in the field of botanical art and illustration.
Futures-thinking for creative businesses
Expand your skills in creativity and transform the way you design products, services and communications so that they are guaranteed to be human-centered and future-proof. This course will help you build the essential foundations for delivering effective projects and successful collaborations.
Graphic Design - Beginners
Aimed at the beginner with limited or no knowledge of graphic design, this popular introductory course combines theoretical and practical content within a professional, commercial perspective.
Graphic Design - Intermediate
Graphic Design - Intermediate. This course is aimed at those with an understanding of graphic design, ideally through professional experience or by having attended a beginner’s course at NTU or elsewhere.
Graphic Design for Content Creation and Marketing
Explore industry-standard tools including Adobe InDesign and Photoshop and engage in practical exercises to develop your design skills, creating content for both print and digital media. You’ll learn how to maintain a cohesive visual identity across diverse platforms and explore the digital landscape including social media design and AI integration.
Productive creativity
This course is for anyone working in a design, creative or research agency, as well as sole-trading creative entrepreneurs, who are keen to expand their existing skills in creativity and improve their creative resilience.
Motif: A new approach to trend and image
This workshop presents you with new trend tools that will fundamentally change your approach to brand, design, motif and image.
Psychology for designers
This two day course is for anyone working in a design, creative or research environment, as well as creative entrepreneurs, who are keen to explore the psychological processes that underpin behaviour in the context of design.
Twinmotion – for Animation, Architecture and Design
This course is suitable for designers who are beginners to digital visualisation or those who have little knowledge of Twinmotion and would like to learn professional outputs for their designs.