A group of students from the Royal College of Art in London has developed headsets that allow the wearer to adjust their sight and hearing in the same way they'd control the settings on a TV or radio (+ movie). More »
Tag: Royal College of Art
Eidos by Tim Bouckley, Millie Clive-Smith,
Multi-Touch Gestures
by Gabriele Meldaikyte
Royal College of Art student Gabriele Meldaikyte has designed a set of interactive exhibits for a museum of iPhone gestures (+ slideshow). More »
Royal College of Art Student Union Cafe
by Weston Surman & Deane
Three Royal College of Art architecture graduates have used stripped scaffolding boards and reclaimed parquet flooring to create a wooden cafe at the school's Battersea campus in south London (+ slideshow). More »
Calvert Brody typeface by Margaret Calvert,
Neville Brody and Henrik Kubel
Graphic designer Neville Brody has reworked the Royal College of Art's house font by Margaret Calvert as part of the London institution's rebrand. More »
Royal College of Art risks becoming
a "Chinese finishing school"
News: the Royal College of Art will end up as a "Chinese finishing school" unless the UK government does more to encourage young people to study art and design, according to writer and broadcaster Andrew Marr. More »
The Thread Wrapping Machine
by Anton Alvarez
Threads and glue replace joints and screws in the furniture that emerges from a custom-made machine designed by Royal College of Art graduate Anton Alvarez (+ movie). More »
The Dyson Building by
Haworth Tompkins
This factory-like building by architects Haworth Tompkins is the new home for print-making and photography at the Royal College of Art in London. More »
Out of the Woods
at the V&A museum
London Design Festival: every scrap of material and minute of production time was carefully recorded during the manufacturing of these twelve wooden chairs, helping the Royal College of Art students that designed them to measure each one's sustainability. More »
Mouth Factory
by Cheng Guo
These tools by Royal College of Art graduate Cheng Guo are controlled by simple mouth movements like chewing and blowing (+ movie). More »
Proposal for Resuscitating Prehistoric Creatures
by Marguerite Humeau
Designer Marguerite Humeau has reconstructed the vocal tracts of prehistoric creatures to capture the shrieks and grunts they might have made (+ slideshow + movie). More »
Competition: five copies of Useless - Critical
Writing in Art and Design to be won
Competition: continuing our series of features on new publishing ventures, Dezeen are giving readers a chance to win a copy of Useless: Critical Writing in Art and Design written by Royal College of Art graduates. More »
Parallel Architecture by James Thompson
at Show RCA 2012
Royal College of Art graduate James Thompson cast the spaces between objects in the college cafe and used the resulting shapes to make furniture-like sculptures. More »
Tangible Textural Interface by Eunhee Jo
at Show RCA 2012
Royal College of Art graduate Eunhee Jo has designed a tactile speaker with a fabric control panel and a speaker that moves to the music (+ movie). More »
Movie: tour of Architecture at
Show RCA 2012 with Alex de Rijke
Movie: the final tour we filmed at this year's Royal College of Art graduate show features projects from the Architecture course including a high-rise hotel growing tropical fruit and an insect-powered office tower. More »
Milk Brother by Po-Chih Lai
at Show RCA 2012
Royal College of Art graduate Po-Chih Lai has invented an add-on for a stove-top coffee pot that uses pressurised steam to froth up the milk (+ movie). More »



