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Royal College of Art announces dynamic line-up for London Design Festival 2026
09 Sep 2026
A dynamic line-up of exhibitions, pop-ups, and collaborative showcases sees RCA students, researchers, and alumni present their works to the public and the international design community during the 24
Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design - 40th anniversary | Royal College of Art
09 Sep 2026
Explore the 40-year history of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design and discover how its pioneering approach to inclusive design continues to shape the future.
RCA announces the winners of the 2026 Hyundai Motor Group Awards for Excellence in Sustainability and Creative Practice
09 Sep 2026
The RCA has today unveiled the winners of the fourth annual Hyundai Motor Group Awards for Excellence in Sustainability and Creative Practice.
Doctoral Spotlight: Postgraduate research excellence and community at the RCA
09 Sep 2026
From inspiring research and remarkable achievements to a new generation of researchers, our Doctoral Research Programme celebrates research excellence, creativity and community impact.
Royal College of Art announces new School of Communication & Design
09 Sep 2026
Discover the RCA's new School of Communication & Design, streamlining our academic structure to prepare creatives for global industry and culture.
RCA x Design for Good Academy 2026
24 Aug 2026
Bringing together the creative expertise of the RCA and the impactful vision of Design for Good, the third RCA x Design for Good Academy launches this October, delivering an ambitious live online shor
Graduate Prizes from the School of Architecture 2026
24 Aug 2026
Discover the winners and standout projects of the School of Architecture 2026 Graduate Prizes
Design Futures in practice: four graduates share their stories
24 Aug 2026
Four recent graduates share their experiences of the RCA’s Design Futures programme and how it continues to influence their daily work. They each explain how ideas, methods and skills from the RCA’s D
Graduate Prizes from the School of Arts & Humanities 2026
24 Aug 2026
Each year a series of prizes is awarded to graduating students for exceptional work in the School of Arts and Humanities.
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24 Aug 2026
Find out more about the RCA's diverse, inclusive, dynamic, critically engaged, collaborative creative environment – and the staff, students and alumni who are using their creativity to shape our world
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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.
