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Fashion, Textiles and Knitwear Design
Our expert instructors and industry experts bring their experience and expertise to the classroom offering valuable insights and guidance based on their own experiences and providing you with a practical and hands-on learning experience that prepares you for success in the competitive world of fashion.
Fashion Product Technology
This unique, weeklong course has been co-designed between NTU and fashion industry professionals.
Aimed at anyone considering a new career or career progression within fashion product technology, it reflects the need for garment engineers and textile engineers to have up-to-date knowledge of contemporary themes in the industry, as well as the skills to handle samples, understand materials and processes, and evaluate production and management processes.
CAD for Textile and Fashion Print Design
Experiment with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to enhance your creativity and technical skills to create innovative digital textile designs and patterns on this practical, Mac based course.
CLO3D for Digital Fashion Design
This course is a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of CLO3D, a powerful 3D garment design and visualisation software. You will learn the key concepts and techniques needed to create realistic 3D garments, simulate fabric properties, and visualise your designs in a virtual environment.
Fashion Design using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
By the end of this course you’ll have the practical skills required for creating accurate and high-quality textile and fashion designs using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. You’ll leave with an overview of Adobe software packages and understand how you can implement the software in the future.
Design and Digital Arts
Keep up to date with the most up-to-date versions of industry software packages. Learn the latest trends and best practices, gain practical skills and experience, and network with other professionals in your field.
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.
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.
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.
UX Design Principles
This practical short course will teach you how UX works and how to integrate it into your work today.
Creative Leadership
If you're working in the creative industries it's essential you stay up-to-date with the latest trends, research and technology.
Our professional development courses are designed to generate discussion and debate, facilitate the sharing of knowledge and experience and inspire change.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Creative Entrepreneurship
This intensive course introduces entrepreneurship to designers and makers. It is aimed at innovative creatives who are seeking to launch their own business and wish to gain important industry insights and build upon their current skill set.
Business and Marketing Skills
Learn how to create and deliver inspiring, relevant content, whether you work for a large, in-house team, run a small business or simply want to level up your existing skills.
Video Making for Marketing and Communications
This course is for marketers or small business owners who want to create effective short videos for little or no cost. By the end of the course, you’ll understand all the stages of the production process, and have a finished video ready to share with your audience.
Finances for Freelancers and Small Businesses
This practical course is designed to equip you with essential financial management skills tailored to the unique challenges and opportunities of freelancing and small-scale entrepreneurship.
Social Media and Digital Marketing
This course is for anyone interested in developing their skills in social media for business; whether you're already working in a business, preparing to enter the workplace, or looking to change careers. It's ideal for anyone looking to update their digital skills and understand how to successfully create a digital marketing strategy.
Brand Guidelines and Marketing for Small Businesses
This short course will delve into the core principles and strategies of effective brand marketing. From understanding your brand identity to implementing successful marketing campaigns, you'll gain valuable insights and practical skills.
TikTok Marketing
Over four dynamic days, this course will guide you through the essential elements of TikTok content creation, from understanding the platform's unique features, looking at the For You Page, strategies, to creating viral-worthy videos.
Marketing and PR for Small Businesses
Whether you are self-employed or running a small or medium sized enterprise (SME), marketing is a vital tool, and it can be hard to understand what we should be doing when it comes to applying it effectively. On this course, you’ll to apply marketing theories to your business to consider what, if anything, you need to be doing differently or better to become more profitable.
Podcast Production for Beginners
This course introduces you to the best practices of developing and producing an original podcast series. It’s for businesses, individuals, community groups and organisations of all shapes and sizes who have a great story to tell and want to engage their audiences with news, views or entertainment.
PR Principles
On this course you’ll consider and manage how you are represented in the media (both online and in printed material), how you are perceived by your stakeholders and the wider public and develop your understanding behind the theory of PR and that how fits in with your marketing plans.
Confident Writing for Business
Whether you're regularly writing emails and reports or presentations and project briefs, winning over your audience with the right words is essential. Learn how best to present specialist or technical information for a diverse range of stakeholders and audiences.
Website Design Essentials: Building Your Online Presence
Create a website that aligns perfectly with your interests, whether that’s for your own personal projects or a unique business venture, this flexible course will help you to attract your target audience and drive meaningful traffic.
Words That Sell: Compelling Copywriting
Unleash your creativity, sharpen your writing skills, and create impactful copywriting that allows your words to become the catalyst for successful engagement with your audience.
Crisis Communication Workshop
This one day workshop is a crash course in crisis management! You’ll be introduced to models of crisis management with real examples of global crises, looking at how to prepare for crises and how to respond to them.
Confident Presenting Skills
Master the art of delivering impactful presentations with poise and self-assurance. This course will equip you with the knowledge and techniques to shine in any presentation scenario.
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.
Creative Entrepreneurship
This intensive course introduces entrepreneurship to designers and makers. It is aimed at innovative creatives who are seeking to launch their own business and wish to gain important industry insights and build upon their current skill set.
Bespoke training
Looking for something else? Contact us to discuss bespoke training and create a programme that meets yours or your team's specific needs.
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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.
Professional Development Courses
Often designed by specialists from both academia and businesses and with flexible learning options to fit around your work, our courses are designed to meet the needs of individuals and industry today.
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.