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Pupil Design Awards: The Winners!

Blog

11 Jul 2014

Hilary Chittenden

“His enthusiasm is infectious and his motivation is undeniable. He has worked extremely hard to solve his chosen design problem and has produced a plausible design and concept.  He has worked well with his partner and shown a range of communication skills. Ilyas has developed a confident ability to present and hook the audience or potential buyer with conviction.  Above all I genuinely believe he has thoroughly enjoyed participating and being given an opportunity and chance to shine.”

Inspire + Innovate: Celebrating the next generation of designers

Blog

02 Jul 2014

Rebecca Ford

Sir Jonathan Ive RDI

Massimo Vignelli: farewell to a master of everyday life

Blog

30 May 2014

Melanie Andrews

“I was always seeking to affect the lives of millions of people – not through politics or entertainment but through design. I strive to raise the bar, taking the common place and improving it”.

Developing through social enterprise

Blog

10 Apr 2014

Jonathan Schifferes

This is a guest blog by Kate Swade of Shared Assets, reflecting on the Developing Socially Productive Places conference at the RSA, 2nd April 2014.

How to make a make space

Blog

10 Apr 2014

Hilary Chittenden

Last week the RSA and the Comino Foundation hosted Make It Together, a 24 hour gathering for 30 of the UK’s make space leaders to connect, share ideas, build a network and seek advice from peers. (No idea what a make space is? Have a read of this.)

The power to create.. what?

Blog

09 Apr 2014

The RSA is, almost fundamentally, a place of debate.  We debate at lectures with speakers; we debate online with the media; but most of all, we debate amongst ourselves.  We debate the morning’s news over breakfast; we debate project and report details at lunch; we debate existentialist dilemmas and the meaning of life over late-night drinks; and the cycle begins anew.<!--more-->

Design for Social Innovation in Hong Kong

Blog

04 Feb 2014

Rebecca Ford

Happy Year of the Horse! Sevra Davis and I from the RSA Student Design Awards team have just returned from a week in Hong Kong – and what a week it was…

RSA announces 9 new Royal Designers for Industry

Press release

28 Nov 2013

Seven of the UK’s best designers are to be recognised for their outstanding contribution to design and society by becoming Royal Designers for Industry (RDI) at an award ceremony held at the RSA on Thursday 28 November.

Co-Creating a Digital Makers Network

Blog

12 Nov 2013

Hilary Chittenden

Following Nat Hunters blog, ‘Finding out what Makers really want’, we have spent the last few weeks picking apart all the drawings, diagrams and questions from the our first co-design session down at Makerversity and have begun to flesh out what a digital maker network might look like with a basic prototype.