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        Cleveland College of Art & Design (CCAD) is once again top of the Tees Valley league table when it comes to the % of students that go on to university. The Northern School of Art supported 78% of students to go on to higher education courses in 2014, which you can see from the table, above, […]

The Northern School of Art Middlesbrough  hosts ‘The Drawing Room’ as part of the world’s biggest drawing festival with visiting artists, staff and students using their own talents and assisted by technology to create a whole room covered in self-portraits. A special white communal drawing room has been created and by the end of the event, the floor and walls […]

Students from a north east specialist art and design college have descended on Hartlepool’s Historic Headland and took to the streets with graffiti, all in the name of folk. The second year Art & Design students from The Northern School of Art (CCAD) campus in Middlesbrough have worked on a live project with Hartlepool Folk Festival organiser Joan Crump to […]

Two graphic design students from The Northern School of Art (CCAD) have won a creative challenge to design a Christmas card for a business and science park, and will now see their designs in print. The Wilton Centre, based near the Wilton International manufacturing site in Redcar, approached the college in Middlesbrough with the opportunity for students from the Level […]

STEPHEN WRIGHT Level six (third year) Textiles students were lucky enough to participate in a week-long programme of talks and workshops lead by London based designer Stephen Wright. Stephen's work challenges the everyday use of objects - he uses  discarded objects to create mosaics: milk bottle tops, broken dolls, dolls eyeballs, the contents of Christmas crackers, false teeth, pen lids, crockery, and the […]

Following on from Alyson's summer exhibition in Berlin, the popular The Northern School of Art lecturer is set to exhibit at Middlesbrough's House of Blah Blah with a private view scheduled for Thursday 22nd October - which will bring  CCAD's Big Draw Drawing Room to a close. Alyson's Solid Paradise Exhibition is a compendium of observations taken in response to unknown places […]

It is almost time for London Fashion Week SS16. To celebrate the second best thing to happen in the UK Fashion world (the first being The Northern School of Art BTEC Extended Diploma in Fashion & Textiles enrolling!) our course leader for BTEC Fashion and Textiles, Diane Watson has give us a run down of the best things London Fashion […]

With the 'Localism' exhibition due to open at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) this weekend, there is no doubt that CCAD's illustrious alumni will feature heavily since we've been in Middlesbrough since the late 1860's. The Evening Gazette describes localism as ' a live stocktake of the artists who have lived or worked in and around Teesside, past and […]

GAVIN VAUGHAN A Cleveland College of Art & Design graduate has won a national art award for his blended art concept, including a £1,000 bursary to fund the creative venture. 25-year old designer Gavin Vaughan, from Hartlepool in the north east of England, entered the Remix 2 competition, developed by Hiive, a professional network for the creative industries. The former […]

A student from Cleveland College of Art & Design (CCAD) has enjoyed a four-week internship in the bright lights and big city of New York, and even managed to meet her idol Rihanna! Sarina Mazfari, 20, from Middlesbrough is currently on her third year of a textiles and surface design degree, at the College’s University level campus in Hartlepool. As […]

London Fashion Week ss16 With our fashion students back from their summer break  and working on their new projects, we are taking time to reflect on the SS16 collections from London, NY, Paris and Milan. Burberry's show included a 32-piece orchestra and singer Alison Moyet starred centre stage in the middle of the Burberry tent, set up in Hyde Park. A […]

Wedding Dresses A video which may be of use to aspiring costumiers is 100 years of Wedding Dresses in 3 minutes, which has been thoughtfully put together by mode.com. Starting off with an ornate lace dress complete with full gloves from 1915 to the present day slim, simple, capped sleeve design with a full length train to add the impact. […]

Staff have been so affected by the on-going refugee crisis that they have donated work to be auctioned off to support two North East charities which support refugees. Jade Sweeting, Creative Director of Pulled Print Club as well as a member of the BA (Hons) Illustration for Commercial Application team and Antony Chambers of BA (Hons) Photography have kindly donated art […]

Fine Art Lecturer Tony Charles is listed as one of the five axis web members to watch out for at this year's Manchester Contemporary Part 2 which will run between 24-27 September 2015 at Old Granada Studios, Manchester. Taken from Axisweb -  Charles’ work both challenges and contributes to the history of steel sculpture. Using the inherent pliability of steel wool, he makes installations […]

On 16 October 6pm to 8pm SIMON COSTIN the renowned designer and art director will be talking about his career, and about the genesis of and process behind  his sets and commercial designs for Alexander McQueen, Hermes, Harrods, Tim Walker and Sunderland born designer, Gareth Pugh. Simon Costin is an internationally respected art director and set designer renowned for the […]