Graphic Design at Nottingham Trent University is an award-winning degree combining creative flair with commercial versatility. It teaches a comprehensive understanding of a diverse range of traditional and contemporary communication media, with the specific aim of inspiring, informing and persuading the audience. The strength of this course is that it enables the students to develop a sound base of conceptual and technical skills, along with a deep understanding of the real design process.

Our BA (Hons) Graphic Design has an outstanding reputation in the UK for developing innovative, commercially aware and adaptable multi-skilled designers demanded by today's creative industry professionals.

The MA Graphic Design subject area consists of five specialist pathways: MA Graphic Design, MA Branding & Identity Design, MA Illustration, MA Art Direction and MA Motion Graphics, which offer students the opportunity to deepen their understanding of a subject and develop as a practitioner through the realisation of a project.

Postgraduate study at NTU provides students with an exciting period of intellectual, practical and personal development within a vibrant research community.

The Graphic Design Research Group's focus lies in the investigation of new strategies for interrogating space and environmental signage and biographical studies of eminent practitioners.