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It's been a busy few years for The Northern School of Art's BA (Hons) Textiles & Surface Design degree graduate Rhianon Vest. Appointed as the Creative Stylist for one of the UK's leading furniture retailers Barker & Stonehouse at the start of 2024, she has been building a successful career in visual merchandising since graduating in 2015. With experience at […]

Students on our BA (Hons) Production Design for Stage & Screen programme have had the exciting opportunity to complete internships working behind the scenes of new BBC Middlesbrough-based LGBTQ+ comedy Smoggie Queens. The production "written by Middlesbrough native, Phil Dunning, Smoggie Queens tells the story of volatile Dickie (Dunning) along with drag queen Mam (Mark Benton), self-styled hun Lucinda (Alexandra […]

Spotlight on UAL Extended Diploma in Illustration & Animation final year student Max Woodall and his work on a live brief with Cleveland Police. His work entitled Sam Attack warns viewers about the dangers and complexities of navigating the digital world. This live brief was a course wide project that allowed students to choose to work on a live brief […]

This November our students had the fantastic opportunity to visit the home of Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Chicken Run creators Aardman in Bristol. The annual trip included students studying across our degree programmes on Animation, Production Design, Illustration, Film, Model Making & Visual FX and our Masters degrees. This trip is one of the many opportunities our […]

UAL Extended Diploma in Graphic & Digital Design student's studying at our Middlesbrough campus have been working on a live brief to support Cleveland Police’s seasonal drink and drug drive campaign by creating artwork which could help spread the message amongst drivers. Students have designed a number of posters to be used on Cleveland Police social media pages to help […]

College-level film students studying on our UAL Extended Diploma in Film & TV Production had the exciting opportunity to visit Middlesbrough based production studio Wander last month. Co-founded by ex-student CEO Chloë Clover, who was recently listed in Forbes 30 Under 30, the company creates "branded content like; Intro Vids, TV Ads, Social Ads, Docu-series, Case Studies, Testimonials, Podcasts and […]

Award winning BA (Hons) Graphic Design alumni and current MA Design Practice student Jennifer Lloyd, 21, won a silver award in the graphic design human rights category of the Creative Conscience Awards 2024! Creative Conscience are "a creative community and global not-for-profit organisation who believe that creative thinking and innovation can make positive change." Their mission "is to embed purpose-driven creative thinking into every institution, […]

Creating fashion that doesn’t cost the earth is the mission of The Northern School of Art's BA (Hons) Fashion degree Lecturer Sarah Thomson. Sarah, pictured below, who teaches part-time at the School's university-level campus in Hartlepool alongside running a sustainable fashion business, TOM-O, is perfectly placed to using her fashion insights and experience to benefit students. We caught up with […]

A-Level Art & Design student's had the fantastic opportunity to hear from Tees Valley Artist of the Year and long-time friend of the school Claire A Baker who delivered a talk to the class about her compelling research and creative practice. Her work is inspired by the communities of babushka's living in Chornobyl. Following a moving presentation about her work […]

BA (Hons) Production Design for Stage and Screen student Christy Robinson, from Middlesbrough, recently completed worked on Feature Film Kraken as a Production Designer. Written by David Gregory and produced by Becca Hirani, with the production company EMRJ Entertainment, "Kraken follows a group of pirates who try to take on the Kraken, but are shipwrecked, only to be stranded and […]

BA (Hons) Illustration for Commercial Application students Karol Wrzesinska and Sam Harrison have been busy preparing their work to contribute to a spectacular light projection for this year's Hartlepool Christmas Light Switch-on event. Following on from last year's successful presentation Hartlepool Council and Creative Hartlepool have joined forces with our students on this second instalment, which will light up Hartlepool Art Gallery tower with animated […]

Details of this year's Christmas Lights Switch-on event in Hartlepool have been announced and students from The Northern School of Art's BA (Hons) Illustration for Commercial Application degree course have star billing in the programme. The FREE event on Friday 29th November from 5pm to 7pm takes place in Church Square and is organised by Hartlepool Borough Council and Creative […]

BA (Hons) Graphic Design alumni Lauren McNichol has achieved Gold in the Typography category of The Creative Conscience Awards 2024! Lauren described the award as "a collection of awards which celebrate global work that aims to have a positive social or environmental impact, the awards are aimed at student work and are designed to inspire young creatives to use their […]

A costume design graduate from The Northern School of Art has won the award for Best Costume Design at this year’s Jane Austen International Film Festival. Meg Wallace, who studied at the School’s university campus in Hartlepool, received the accolade for her work on a film about the early life of Queen Elizabeth I. Torn, directed by Luke Bradford, written […]

Tees Valley International Film Festival (TVIFF) returns for 2024 with a four day celebration of all aspects of the craft of filmmaking from Wednesday 6 - Saturday 9 November at ARC Stockton Arts Centre. There's an amazing programme lined up for the event and we're very proud to see work by a number of graduates from the School's BA (Hons) […]