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Norwich University of the Arts plays a vital role as part of the local creative economy, providing expertise and resources to help local businesses grow, discover new talent and tackle creative challenges.

Ideas Factory is the focal point of our outreach into the creative and artistic sector, offering services for startups and established businesses alike, as well as providing unique and valuable opportunities for our students to develop and learn.

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Design and brand consultancy
Incubation centre and facility hire
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Design and brand consultancy at NUA

Ideas Factory^NUA is where exciting creative ideas come to life. A creative consultancy within the University, Ideas Factory^NUA accepts commissions across all our course areas.

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Incubation centre and facility hire at NUA

There’s a lot to think about if you’re a digital creative start-up. At the Ideas Factory Incubation Centre for creative digital businesses you can surround yourself with likeminded businesses that are also seeking to build and grow.

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Commissions and art hire

Ideas Factory^NUA allows students and staff at the University to undertake fine art commissions as part of their coursework or in their capacity as individual artists.

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Client work

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The Lab - design featuring classic photos of Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin and Christiaan Huygens with a comical brain, bunny ears and rings

The Lab - Photo of two stacks of business cards for The Lab and Maria Bean

The Lab - Photo of yellow square lockers with titles for various chemical elements

The Lab - photo shows hands holding a lanyard for the lab by Aviva

Broads Landscape Partnership Scheme - website concept for Water Mills and Marshes associated with the norfolk broads shows offset image with blue and white background and white title near the centre

- photo of woven fabric created on a loom has thin under layer with with spaced green and yellow fibers woven in a large grid spacing

Beth Franks, BA (Hons) Textile Design - closeu up photo of embroidery hoop with thick and thin pattern sewn in and light shining through the form angular shapes on a wall

Beth Covill, BA (Hons) Fashion & Emily Willgress, BA (Hons) Textile Design - photo of multiple fabric print colour tests pinned to white wall showing building designs with mixture of black lines to indicate roads

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Speak with us to find out more about how you can work with Ideas Factory^NUA

Call: +44 (0)1603 610561

Email: ideasfactory@nua.ac.uk

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We are delighted to announce Professor Louis Nixon will become Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange at Norwich University of the Arts.

Professor Nixon, an artist and academic who has worked in Art and Design education for more than 30 years, will lead the University’s engagement with industry and build its reputation as a centre for world class research in creative arts and technologies.

Professor Nixon, an artist and academic who has worked in Art and Design education for more than 30 years, will lead the University’s engagement with industry and build its reputation as a centre for world class research in creative arts and technologies.

He joins Norwich from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) where he has worked since 2018 as Director of the Academy of Visual Arts, focusing on research development, initiating a new PhD programme and a Research and Knowledge Exchange strategy. At the Academy of Visual Arts, Professor Nixon was Co-convenor of the Augmented Creativity Lab, and a Governor of the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre.

Welcoming the appointment, Vice-Chancellor Professor Simon Ofield-Kerr said: “Louis brings an international perspective and a track record of strategic development in research and knowledge exchange. This is a key appointment for Norwich and signals our ambition for the future of the University.”

Professor Nixon studied painting at Chelsea School of Art and completed postgraduate studies in sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art. His fine art practice encompasses painting, sculpture, installation, and experimental film, often presented as multi-media installations in galleries and public spaces. In 1990 he founded the collective Space Explorations and, as artist, director, and curator, participated in large-scale interventions in response to specific sites including the Greenwich Royal Observatory and Hoxton Power Station. Since 2001 Nixon has worked independently and exhibited widely in the UK and internationally including solo exhibitions in London, Hong Kong, and Italy.

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