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In memory of Professor Rachel Cooper OBE
22 Jul 2025
The RCA is deeply saddened to hear of the death of RCA Council member Professor Rachel Cooper OBE.
New international research project to explore history of graphic design for street protest
22 Jul 2025
From Banking to Biennales: Myles Igwebuike’s Radical Design Journey
17 Jul 2025
Nigerian-American designer Myles Igwe went from banking to curating Nigeria’s first pavilion at the London Design Biennale. A graduate of the RCA, his collaborative, heritage-rooted approach is reshaping how we think about design.
Everything you never imagined
16 Jul 2025
From billboards to brochures and the homepage of our website, images of work made at the RCA is helping us to celebrate and champion the creativity of the College.
RCA Animation at 40: A Legacy of Innovation, Imagination and Impact
11 Jul 2025
The RCA Animation course celebrates 40 years shaping not only the independent film scene, but commercial studios, arts institutions, education, and emerging media worldwide.
IN SESSION: What’s Next for Design? Global vs National
08 Jul 2025
Free RCA online talk with leading industry experts exploring the how design is evolving as a global business.
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
