Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design

Nottingham School of Art on Waverley Street.

In 1836, the Government Select Committee on Art and Manufactures produced a report highlighting concerns about the standard of design in the industry. Higher standards abroad forced manufacturers to buy or copy foreign designs. Later in 1836, the Board of Trade established the ‘Government School of Design’ in London, where, in 1837, it opened at Somerset House.[2]

In order to encourage Practical Art in other populous areas of the UK, a ‘Government School of Design’ was then established in each of several provincial towns, where manufacturing industries were already in existence. Inevitably, the original title was adjusted to include the name of the town where it was located – whilst locally, being simply referred to as, the ‘School of Design’.

• Somerset House in London in 1837, later the Royal College of Art, from 1896[3]
• Manchester, in 1838
• York, in 1842[4][5]
• Nottingham, in 1843
• Sheffield, in 1843 (September)
• Birmingham, in 1843 (September)
• Coventry, in 1843
• Glasgow, in 1845
• Norwich, in 1845

In early 1973, R. Lyon, the deputy director of Trent Polytechnic, and W. Payne, the Associate Head of the Graphics Department of the College of Art, were approached by the Nottingham Forest Football Club, for advice regarding the design of a new badge. The Nottingham Evening Post Sports Editor was then consulted, resulting in a competition being organised, which was announced in March 1973.[25] There were 855 entries, some from other countries. (587 in the adult section and 268 in the junior section.)

The winning design was by Trent Polytechnic graphic designer and lecturer, David Lewis.[26] To maintain anonymity, Lewis entered his design using his mother's maiden name. The reason being, that one of the five judges was W. Payne, his head of department at Trent Polytechnic.[27] After winning the competition, Lewis adapted his entry to produce the final design. His explanation, describing the new badge, is reproduced below, as printed on page eleven in the Forest Programme of Saturday 8 September 1973:

' The main visual elements in the final design: Equal thickness of heavy line treatment gives a ″completeness″ (fairly weighty appearance is much more likely to identify with supporters than a spindly one). The straight and relatively short tree trunk gives strength and prevents the tree top and the water becoming too separate. The tree achieves a unique quality through its shape — the triangular shape adds stability. The small ″E″ in ″Forest″ helps give a personal identity to the name — it becomes something more unique than just the word.[28][29]

David Lewis — Designer/Lecturer in Graphic Design, Trent Polytechnic. '

The above paragraph is quite similar to the final part of this longer piece.[30] Also see 'Talk' for anecdote.

• Rayner Hoff – Public sculptor who rose to prominence in Australia.[31]
• Dame Laura Knight – First female artist to be made a Dame of the British Empire[32][31]
• Stuart Trevor – Scottish-born fashion designer who founded the retail group AllSaints.[31]
• John Bowley – British architect and engineer.
• Graham Ibbeson – British artist and sculptor, known for the realistic figurative sculptures he has created for public commissions in the United Kingdom.[33]
• Lawrence Bright – British architect.
• Hedley John Price – English architect based in Nottingham.[34][35]
• John Frederick Dodd – British architect based in Derbyshire.
• Gilbert Smith Doughty – British architect based in Nottingham and Matlock.
• Noel Denholm Davis – English artist, who worked chiefly as a portrait painter.[36]
• Charles Doman – British sculptor based in Nottingham.
• Arthur Lowe – British painter and member of the Nottingham Society of Artists.[37]
• Joseph Else – British sculptor based in Nottingham and associate member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.[38][39]
• Sheila Robinson – British artist and illustrator, one of the Great Bardfield Artists and member of staff at the Royal College of Art.[40]
• Andreas Schmidt – German artist[41][42][31]
• Tom Sandberg – Norwegian art photographer.[43][44]
• Richard Evans – British graphic designer and author.
• Mary Gillick – British sculptor and medallist, best known for her effigy of Elizabeth II used on coinage in the United Kingdom and elsewhere from 1953 to 1970.[45]
• John Howitt – British architect based in Nottingham.
• Sidney Roberts Stevenson – English architect based in Nottingham.[46]
• Joseph Warburton – English architect based in Nottinghamshire.[47]
• Charles Nelson Holloway – British architect based in Nottingham.[48]
• James Woodford – English sculptor most famous for the statue of Robin Hood outside Nottingham Castle.[49]
• Dudley D. Watkins – Creator of Lord Snooty and Desperate Dan for the Beano and Dandy comics.[31]
• Harold Knight – English portrait, genre and landscape painter.[50]
• Jonathan Huxley – Artist[31]
• Ellie Harrison – British artist.[51]
• Tim Noble and Sue Webster – British artists who are associated with the post-YBA generation of artists.[31][52]
• Rob Ryan – British visual artist who specialises in Papercutting and screen-printing.[53][54]
• Samson Kambalu – Malawi-born artist, academic, and author. He is a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.[55][31]
• Scout Niblett – English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.[56]
• Lala Meredith-Vula – English and Albanian-Kosovian artist and photographer.[31]
• Stephen Jones – English novelist and lo-fi musician.[57]
• Mamoru Iriguchi – Japanese multimedia artist and theatre designer.[58]
• Peter Liddle – British landscape artist and sculptor, known for his allegorical depictions of the British Isles.[59]
• Stewart Brown – English poet, university lecturer and scholar of African and Caribbean Literature[31]
• Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond – Artist[31]
• Adrian Searle – chief art critic of The Guardian newspaper in Britain, and has been writing for the paper since 1996. Previously he was a painter.[60]
• Graham Budgett – Artist and educator[31]
• Shane Cullinan – composer[31]
• Richard Evans – Graphic designer of album covers and music-related design[31]
• James Robert Ford – Contemporary conceptual artist.[31]
• Felix Ibru – Nigerian architect[61]
• John Richard Townsend – English painter and fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[31]
• Samson Kambalu – Malawi-born artist, academic[55] and author who trained as a fine artist and ethnomusicologist at the University of Malawi's Chancellor College.
• David Tress – Anglo-Welsh Artist[31]
• Dai Roberts – British sculptor, print and installation artist[62]
• Said Adrus – Ugandan-British artist.[63]
• Jenny Tiramani – British costume, stage and production designer.[64]
• Keith Piper – British artist, curator, critic and academic[65]
• Donald Rodney – Artist[31]
• Tim Stead – British sculptor and furniture maker who worked primarily in wood.[66]
• Keith Albarn – English artist[67]
• Nick Waplington – British-American artist and photographer.[31] He has critically acclaimed work displayed at the Tate Britain, Venice Biennale, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
• Stephen Newton – British artist[31]
• Arthur Spooner – British painter[68]
• Mel Ramsden – British conceptual artist and member of the Art & Language artist group.[31]
• Paul Hart – British landscape photographer.[69]
• Sam Fell – Oscar and BAFTA nominated director of animated films, including Flushed Away.[31]
• Simon Procter – Artist/Photographer, notably working with Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano and Vivienne Westwood [31]

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• 'Nottingham School of Art', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 Nottingham School of Art - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951
• RIBA, Origins of the RCA Royal College of Art