Department of Design

Department of Design

Vision:

Our vision is to lead in the field of arts and design by promoting collaborative, creative and scholarly education, targeting textile and related industries, regionally and internationally.

Mission:

Our mission is to foster lifelong learning with independent thinking in a creative and challenging environment, by providing a diversified curriculum for optimistic and talented individuals. We provide education in design, arts and fashion as relevant, critical, and essential to our contemporary lives and to become thoughtful practitioners for a local and global community.

School of Arts and Design is committed to be a professional institute in Arts & Design. The dynamic design programs include: Textile design, Fashion design, Animation & Multimedia Design and Bachelors in Visual Arts. The degree programs are tailored to provide comprehensive and research-based education aiming to produce graduates with aesthetic consciousness by exploring individual creativity and artistic proficiency along with critical thinking and effective communication skills. The faculty at SOA&D is highly trained, mostly from well reputed International and national institutes, motivated to impart high quality outcome-based education and conduct quality research.

Faculty embraces the idea that art being soul of the nation can create and reflect innovation and philosophy of human thought. The faculty therefore, has set the path for the students to learn by going through intense competition and challenging environment.

School of Arts and Design believes in developing comprehensive vision in students to achieve their potential goals. The school confidently produces qualified human resources who step in the world of professionalism with high efficiency, implementing their technical research-based knowledge keeping in mind the demands of local and international market.

Due to the quality of knowledge, practical experience and creative innovations acquired by the students of SoA&D, they are highly ranked by industry. Our employability has remained above 90% since the beginning.

On behalf of all our faculty, staff and students, welcome to the School of Arts and Design at National textile University, Faisalabad. Our school is composed of four departments: Department of Textile Design, Department of Fashion Design, Department of Visual Arts, Department of Animation and Multimedia Design. We have strong faith that we are capable of developing a comprehensive vision, where the faculty, staff members and students adhere to develop the professional generation we all look forward to.

As dean of the school, I’m extremely proud of the rich tradition of providing practical, experience-based design and arts education that our school has upheld since its founding. Our programs prepare our students to become creative artists and proficient designers with moral depth and intellectual intensity necessary to meet the challenges of a time of critical transition in society.

We draw students from diverse and multi-cultural backgrounds, which provides a very vibrant and stimulating classroom environment. Our undergraduate students go on to leadership positions in arts, fashion designs and every professional field—having been well prepared through internships, research opportunities, cross-disciplinary integration and most importantly, great and inspiring teaching.

Our efforts also are enhanced by the vital involvement of inspirational alumni, who are doing innovative and transformative things in their personal and professional lives and serve as shining examples of the exceptional arts and design education we offer at SoA&D.

The generosity of our own staff and faculty is always deeply appreciated and inspiring to others. The faculty members are well qualified, dedicated, and hardworking and most of them have vast industrial and professional experience in their respective areas of education and specialization.

I would warmly invite all of you who are interested in expanding your knowledge and elevating your careers to explore our school further either online or through a visit to campus.

With sincere thanks,

Dr. Zafar Javed,
Director/ Dean
School of Arts and Design