🚀 🚀 Eight years as the World's No. 1 Art and Design University – and a 100% score for Academic Excellence!
Across the RCA, we all feel hugely proud of our
@worlduniranking
showing the global reach of our unique community 🌎 💫
Find out more:
#QSWUR
The shortlisted
#TerraCarta
Design Lab projects from RCA students and alumni promise new solutions to the
#climatecrisis
.
The Design Lab was launched in 2021 by HRH The Prince of Wales and Sir Jony Ive as part the
@TheSMI
.
Winners announced in Spring.
Do you have an idea that could transform transport options as we age – helping us stay independent, active and connected?
APPLY for up to £120k as part of our
@DesignAge_
Institute's Transport Pathfinder Innovation Programme funded by
@innovateuk
👇
Today we had the honour of hosting our first visit from our new Royal Visitor, HRH The Prince of Wales. He toured the many workshops and studios at
#RCABattersea
and met Ceramics & Glass and Print students, staff and start-up innovators.
@ClarenceHouse
We’re thrilled to be ranked the world’s number one Art and Design university in the 2019 QS World
Subject Rankings for the fifth year running
@worlduniranking
#QSWUR
Today David Hockney unveiled his latest artwork, the Queen's Window
@wabbey
– designed on his iPad, it shows blue skies and a red country path through blossoming Yorkshire Wolds hawthorn. Just beautiful.
@AlumniRCA
via
@markbrown14
@guardian
We've all been there....
@RCAanimation
graduate
@AnnaMantzaris
has perfectly captured those
#commuter
feels...Her short 'Enough' has garnered a whopping 15 awards. Watch the full clip here:
RCA x OPPO is a collaborative
#RCA2020
event between our Design Products graduates and leading tech brand
@oppo
in which graduates will present new products that re-imagine the relationship between the human and the technological, 21 July 16.00 GMT+1
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Did you catch
@BBC
#Springwatch
last night? Design researchers from the
@RCA
&
@GoldsmithsUoL
have developed a DIY wildlife camera that anybody can make at home from everyday items and simple technology for around £30.
#MyNaturewatch
👋👋 We're inviting you inside the RCA for Open Studios 2023!
👀👀 See art and design futures as they take shape in-person on 3 and 4 February AND online ➡️
#RCAWiP
Today, we’re announcing the Sir Frank Bowling
#Scholarship
!
Supporting 24 UK MA and MRes students and 1 PhD student every year from Black African and Caribbean diaspora heritage, or mixed Black African and Caribbean diaspora heritage.
#GenerationRCA
#RCA2020
is LIVE! Join us online to navigate, explore & immerse yourself in the work & thinking of the world's most talented emerging artists & designers.
⭐ 850 graduates
⭐ 300 events
⭐ Special collections of student work chosen by alumni & guests
The RCA’s new flagship building at Battersea has been given the green light following planning approval by
@wandbc
! Read here for the full details:
#RoyalCollegeofArt
Congratulations to our MA Photography student, Lowena Poole on winning the Human Rights Photography Prize 2020 from the Act on Your Future Foundation! Lowena's incredible infrared photos show up previous sites of radiation to highlight ecological crisis. 👏👏🔥🔥
HRH The Prince of Wales participated in a demonstration of the historic ‘Hockney Press’. Dating from 1851 and officially known as the John Haddon Etching Press, the press was used by
@alumnirca
#DavidHockney
to create his 'A Rake’s Progress' etchings.
The Colour Reference Library at the
#RCA
is one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of colour-related publications in the world! Containing over 1,000 items, the library covers numerous aspects of the vast field of colour-based studies.
#LibrariesWeek
Welcome to Anthony Flores & Crysta Dela Cuesta, who start at the RCA today as our two new Snap Design Academy scholars. Anthony & Crysta are supported by
@Snapchat
to study the Art & Design Graduate Diploma at the RCA.
With 100 days to go until
#COP26
, we’re proud to announce the
#TerraCarta
Design Lab, a major initiative for RCA students & alumni to develop sustainable solutions to the
#climatecrisis
Founded by HRH Prince of Wales,
@TheSMI
& Sir Jony Ive
Read more:
Have you seen
#VivienneWestwood
's (
@FollowWestwood
) A/W 22/23 campaign yet? Our Battersea neighbours used our new campus for their backdrop – shot by the legendary Juergen Teller 📸
Read the
@Dazed
interview for more behind the scenes insights:
Congratulations to Prof Teal Triggs, Associate Dean in the School of Communication on being made a Fellow of the Design Research Society in recognition of her established record of achievement in design research!
@tealtweets
@RCACommResearch
@thisisDRS
Tonight's instalment of the RCA Film Night series is Ralph Bakshi's cult 70s animation, Wizards. Read a reappraisal of the film's macabre yet enthralling subject matter from
@LWLies
before you come to see it tonight!
We are LIVE! 🙌
Go to to discover the world's top emerging artists, designers and creatives, with over 5,000 works to explore.
Plus, browse over 120 events including live performances, radio broadcasts talks and special guests - all free online.
We are excited to announce our new partnership with
@ExtremeELive
!
Design Academics from the RCA will travel to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland this month to collect data on the world's oceans aboard Extreme E’s floating operations hub – the St Helena.
All at the Royal College of Art devastated by news of the fire at Glasgow School of Art. We send support and concern to all colleagues, friends and fellow students.
@GSofA
@RCA
'From the RCA I learned to start everything again. ‘Everything you know is wrong’ was the spirit... You are encouraged to do the impossible.'
@pentagram
's Marina Willer discusses her time at the RCA with
@CreativeReview
@AlumniRCA
@RCAartshuman
‘In a world of false news, rising inequalities and global challenges, it is imperative that we change the narrative of communication.’ - Inspirational words from our incoming School of Communication Dean, Rathna Ramanathan (
@ratwoman
) and read more:
Congratulations to
@InnovationRCA
start-up
@GravitySketch
from our
@IDE_RCA
graduates, Oluwaseyi Sosanya and Daniela Paredes Fuentes on their $33M funding to take their 3D design platform to the next level!
We're excited to announce being awarded a grant of £5.4m from UK Research and Innovation (
@UKRI_News
) to lead the new Textiles Circularity Centre (TCC) researching the circular economy in textiles turning waste products into renewable materials.
>>>
📢 Announcing the winners of the
#TerraCarta
Design Lab – an RCA student and alumni led response to our environmental crisis. 🌍
Launched by HRH The Prince of Wales and Sir Jony Ive as part
@TheSMI
, in collaboration with the RCA.
Meet them all ↓
'A visionary and imaginative way of helping to address the world’s increasingly urgent environmental problems.’ Sir Jony Ive on the
#TerraCarta
Design Lab, just launched
Read more in
@wallpapermag
Take a listen to
@AlumniRCA
Rose Wylie in conversation with
@russelltovey
on
@davidzwirner
's new
#podcast
. They discuss how they create their art, their trance-like state of performing and painting, and the similarities of their craft.
The second episode of our new podcast
#DZDialogues
pairs artist Rose Wylie with actor
@russelltovey
for a conversation about improvisation, the importance of character, and the value of mistakes. Join the conversation:
Our MA Fashion student Danielle Elsener has just won a iDesign Fashion Awards Grant for her zero waste medical scrubs! 👏👏👏
The pattern for the scrubs is open source - click the link to make your own:
A huge thank you to all our artists and designers, whose generosity towards the next generation makes
#RCASecret
such a special event! You’ve already raised over £30,000 to support the
@RCA
student experience and there are plenty of postcards still to snap up tomorrow.
@AlumniRCA
Congratulations to our 2020 MA Design Products grads Sarah Willemart and Matthieu Muller of Studio Fantasio for winning the
@dezeen
x
@Samsung
Out of the Box competition for their series of animal companions! 👏👏🔥🔥
Our V&A/RCA MA
@HistoryofDesign
Class of 2019 present their final work in Material History/Virtual World.
Going beyond panels and presentations to bring you workshops, tours, polls and more!
This is Design History, for the curious, by the curious!
Who’s going to to find solutions for international sustainability challenges? The world's greatest scientists launched a collaboration today with the world's greatest design researchers
@cern
to do exactly that.
Ever had a dream you’re flying?
@RCAvisualcomm
grad Ping Mu’s latest work shows weightless figures floating in mid air. Launched on
#WorldMentalHealthDay
, it is inspired by research on how digital technologies can be used to create support networks.
>>>
Research Biennale 2021 is now live! For the first time, the platform brings together our PhD, MPhil and MRes students from across the College, highlighting the urgency, vitality and ambition their Art & Design research.
A lovely piece on
@Londonist
about RCA alumna Pauline Boty, from Lucy Dahlsen, Associate Curator at
@NPGLondon
. Pauline Boty studied Stained Glass at the College and was later a key member of the British Pop Art movement.
Fantastic news for Lubaina Himid, MA Cultural History, RCA 1984 (the year of the first ever Turner Prize)
@AlumniRCA
– winner of
#turnerprize
2018
@HullFerens
– huge congratulations from the RCA!
Our Work-in-progress Shows are just around the corner! See what our artists and designers have been creating from 19-21 January (Battersea & Kensington) and 9-11 February (White City). More details here: . Identity design by
@AlumniRCA
#RegularPractice
"A new perspective on science, medicine, life and art" –
#royalcollegeofart
@RCAanimation
students have created a series of documentary films inspired by
@WellcomeLibrary
one of the world's major resources for the study of medical history
Happy birthday to the inimitable David Hockney! One of the most beloved and respected artists working today, David attended the RCA from 1959–1962.
Image: Alice Dunseath, Hunting for Hockney, 2013
Calling all designers, material scientists and manufacturing engineers. The RCA's Burberry Material Futures Research Group is offering a three-year, fully-funded PhD studentship. Apply by 1 April 2019.
#funding
#PhD
Next week: PhD students
@LINMingjing
@huangtsaichun
present 3D printed & pleated costumes they have created for Beijing Opera – mixing new technology with traditional craft. Don't miss an exclusive performance on 1Dec.
Work in Progress 2021 is LIVE at !
Join us online to explore the work of the world's most talented artists & designers as it develops.
⭐1047 student projects
⭐across 18 MA programmes
⭐65 events with industry leaders
#WiP2021
Well done to our alumni Alexis Demetriades (MA Visual Communication, 2018) and Henriette Holz (MA Information Experience Design, 2018) for their work on this project with Hammersmith and Fulham Council
@LBHF
! 👏👏🔥🔥
Check out the new colourful road crossing we’ve installed in North End Road with the help of
@RCA
&
@FMConwayltd
It forms part of our community-led redesign of the high street as we work with businesses, traders & residents to make it a more thriving & welcoming destination.
#ShowRCA
2018 will showcase exciting work from over 800 art and design postgraduate students from across the Schools of Architecture, Design, Communication and Arts & Humanities.
23 June – 1 July.
@RCAartshuman
@RCAarchitecture
@rcadesign
We were saddened to hear of the death of designer Ken Garland last week.
Ken taught at the RCA in the 1970s-80s, and revolutionised both the teaching and practice of graphic design. His renowned 1964 manifesto, ‘First Things First’ called for a humanist approach.
Artist &
@RCAartshuman
research student Wayne Binitie is collaborating with the British Antarctic Survey to create a soundtrack of air bubbles being released from ancient Antarctic ice cores. He spoke to
@BBCRadio3
's
@R3TheVerb
on his research.
Listen >>>
Noticed our
#RCA2022
fonts?
@bionicreading
highlights the initial letters in a word so your brain can fill in the rest – it can make reading easier for
#neurodiverse
audiences.
Find out how we're working towards
#accessibility
in our graduate shows ↓
Launching tomorrow!
#RCA2021
, our major online graduate exhibition, features work by over 1,000 graduating students, from 25+ programmes, inspiring events, special guest curators and more...
Visit
What makes the RCA so special? Watch a 3-minute film that celebrates every past, present and future generation of RCA students and staff from
@RSAfilms
,
@alumniRCA
Ridley Scott’s production company.
Watch in full:
#GenerationRCA
'The world is very very beautiful if you look at it, but most people don’t look very much...I do.' David Hockney
We're ready to enter the world of 1962 RCA Alumnus David Hockney in a new exhibition opening next month
@_lightroomldn
.
Love to see this! Over half term
@RCAarchitecture
grads from
@Poor_Collective
have been busy working with young people from
@CarneyCommunity
, a youth centre neighbouring our Battersea campus. Part of a collaboration with RCA Community Engagement &
@wandsworthart
. Check it out 👇
We are pleased to announce our new partnership with London Business School (
@LBS
).
The three year partnership will allow students to benefit from the RCA and LBS's world-leading and complementary expertise in innovation and entrepreneurship.
Read more: