武汉纺织大学艺术与设计学院的设计学的办学历史始于20世纪80年代初,是华中地区最早创办艺术设计专业的院系之一。
我院经过三十多年的办学历史，已逐渐建构了一套属于自己的教育观念，办学特色和教学体系，拥有一支具有敬业精神和创新精神的“双师型”教师队伍，在全国建立起良好的办学声誉和品牌形象。艺术与设计学院现设置有设计学二级学科五个专业：视觉传达设计、环境设计、产品设计、工艺美术、公共艺术。其中艺术设计专业为国家特色专业，设计学为湖北省重点学科，湖北省优势特色学科群。
艺术设计学院以当代艺术与设计思维为主导，以中国传统文化精神为根基，重视学科厚基础，重视学科交叉，注重八个结合：即设计教育与艺术结合，设计教育与创新思维结合，设计教育与中国人文精神结合，设计教育与学科厚基础结合，设计教育与非智力因素结合，设计教育与科技结合，设计教育与动手能力、实践能力结合，设计教育与创新能力结合。努力构建思维能力+动手能力+实践能力+创新能力的综合性人才培养特色。
近年来我院在创作研究和教学研究方面取得了瞩目的成绩，教研项目《创意产业下的艺术设计教育教学改革和实践研究》2008年获湖北省教学成果一等奖，《“创意型、创制型”设计人才培养平台的建设与实践》2012年获湖北省教学成果二等奖。环艺设计作品获全国美展优秀奖，学院现有在研国家级项目7项，其中国家社科基金2项，国家艺术基金1项，文化部艺术研究项目1项，教育部人文社科研究项目3项，出版专著和教材20余本。
学院现有教职工64人，其中教授5人，副教授31人，硕士研究生导师23人。湖北省楚天学者特聘教授5人，楚天学子1人，外聘国内外著名教授“特聘教授”2人。在校硕士研究生近200人，学院一直高度重视学术研究氛围的营造，近年来积极开展各类大型研创学术活动，近5年来相继举办了美国加州大学戴维斯分校纤维艺术联展、中美设计作品交流展等一系列高层次的国际国内重大学术展览和学术交流活动。为艺术设计教育与产业挖掘创新设计人才。促进了高校与行业对话，为中国设计搭建了一个高水平的国际化的交流平台。近年来还积极参与系列学术展演。此外学院还相继组织策划了学术研讨会，如全国环艺设计学年奖论坛、中韩时尚产业国际研讨会。有力地推动了学校学术研究的深度和广度，提升了学校在中南地区及全国的影响力。
学院现有设计学硕士、艺术设计硕士学位授予权，面向全国招生。
Wuhan Textile University has one of the earliest design schools in Hubei province. After 20 years, the School of Art and Design has gradually established a set of its own educational concepts, school characteristics and teaching system. It has a high spirit of dedication and creative spirit which combines the advantages of "college teachers and corporate mentors" . It has established a good reputation and brand image in the whole country. The school of art and design provides two kinds of graduate programs and six professional directions of bachelor degrees: fiber art design, communication design, environmental design, public art design, art investment and appreciation, and product design. Art design is a national specialty major, and the key subject and the characteristic discipline groups of Hubei province.
The school of Art and Design focuses on the contemporary art and design thinking, takes the traditional culture as the root, and pays attention to the eight combinations: the combination of design education and art, creative thinking, Chinese humanistic spirit, the basic knowledge, non intelligence factors, technology, the ability of practice, and innovation ability. We try to construct the comprehensive educational system which included building the capabilities of thinking, practice, and innovation.
In recent years, our school has made great achievements in research and teaching. "The Teaching Reform and Practice of Artistic Design in the Creative Industry" had won the first prize of teaching achievement award in Hubei province in 2008. "The Construct and Practice of Creative Design Talents Training Platform" had won the second prize of teaching achievement award in Hubei province in 2012. It has seven national projects, which included two national social science funds, a national art fund, an art fund of Ministry of culture, and three humanities and social science research funds of the educational ministry. There are more than 20 books and textbooks published by our faculties.
There are more than 64 faculty members, including 5 professors, 31 associate professors, and 23 graduate supervisors. It has 6 Chutian scholars, 2 "distinguished professors". There are nearly 200 graduate students on campus. The school had pay more attention to create academic atmosphere and actively carried out all kinds of academic researches and exhibitions in recent five years, such as the fiber art exhibition in the University of California at Davis and design exchange exhibition between China and U.S. .In order to build a high exchange platform, the school had also participated in a series of academic activities, for example, the national environmental design forum, the fashion industry in China and South Korean. It had promoted the influence of our school in the central and southern regions and the whole country.
The school has a mater degree program in design, art design.