Burslem continued to be the home of the Department of Fine Art for some years after the formation of North Staffordshire Polytechnic.
Staff at Burslem included Arthur Berry who taught at the Polytechnic until 1985 by which time Fine Art had moved to College Road.
In the early seventies research into letterform design for cathode ray tubes was carried out in collaboration with International Computers Limited (ICL) in Kidsgrove by staff and students in the Department of Graphic Design, North Staffordshire Polytechnic.
The design departments were successful in persuading the DTI to locate this travelling exhibition on the College Road campus – the only visit for the north Midlands.
In conjunction with the Department of Computing, the first degree course in Interactive Systems Design in the United Kingdom was developed.
The experience gained in this area was to be used in the early planning of the Hothouse Design Centre located in Longton.