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Royal College of Art announces the winners of the Helen Hamlyn Design Awards for 2025
06 Oct 2025
List of the winners of the RCA's Helen Hamlyn Design Awards 2025
Nick Cave awarded Honorary Doctorate by the Royal College of Art
24 Sep 2025
The Royal College of Art (RCA) has awarded acclaimed musician Nick Cave with an Honorary Doctorate, the highest recognition the College can bestow upon an individual to celebrate exceptional accomplishment.
Positive results for the RCA in the fifth Knowledge Exchange Framework
23 Sep 2025
The Royal College of Art has achieved an outstanding set of results in the fifth Knowledge Exchange Framework.
Meet the RCA Fashion graduates shaping the future of fashion
19 Sep 2025
Ahead of London Fashion Week, discover the RCA Fashion alumni who are transforming materials, bodies and ideas to redefine fashion’s future
RCA-led research project awarded grant to investigate emergency signals
19 Sep 2025
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is supporting Scoring Warnings to explore how warnings can be made more inclusive, engaging and effective.
Designing New Futures: RCA Alumna Zarna Hart on Education and Equity
12 Sep 2025
Designer, educator and curator Zarna Hart (RCA/V&A MA History of Design, 2023) on heritage, archives and opening up space for new voices in design history
Royal College of Art community to take the stage at the World Design Congress 2025 in London
12 Sep 2025
The Royal College of Art announces its community members taking the stage at the World Design Congress 2025
Doctoral Spotlight: Celebrating Research Degrees at the RCA
01 Sep 2025
RCA Research Degrees celebrate global impact with award-winning work, inventions, public debate and collaborations that are shaping culture and society.
Royal College of Art announces the winners of the third annual Hyundai Awards for Excellence in Sustainability and Creative Practice
01 Sep 2025
The Royal College of Art (RCA) today announced the winners of the third annual Hyundai Awards for Excellence in Sustainability and Creative Practice.
“Culture Isn’t Static”: Photographer Aisha Seriki on Spirituality, Sculpture, and Finding Her Voice at the RCA
21 Aug 2025
“Culture Isn’t Static”: Photographer Aisha Seriki on Spirituality, Sculpture, and Finding Her Voice at the RCA.
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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.
