Movie: the third tour we filmed at the Royal College of Art graduate show features work from the Innovation Design Engineering course, including a candyfloss machine for recycling plastic and a bicycle for recycling copper from electrical wires. More »
Royal College of Art graduate Shing Tat Chung has created a superstitious robot that trades on the stock market according to the lucky numbers it generates. More »
Movie: in the second of four movies filmed by Dezeen at the Royal College of Art graduate exhibition in London, leader of the Design Interactions course Tony Dunne talks about selected projects including mice with the DNA of Elvis and a prototype for a biological factory. More »
Royal College of Art graduate Imme van der Haak has printed photos of people onto silk shrouds so that the wearer's image is overlaid with someone else's face and body (+ movie). More »
Graphic patterns and two-way mirrored glass create optical illusions on these furniture pieces by Royal College of Art graduate Kim Thome. More »
Royal College of Art graduate Hal Watts has come up with a bicycle-powered electronic waste recycler that could save lives in developing countries (+ movie). More »
Movie: in the first of four movies filmed by Dezeen at the Royal College of Art graduate exhibition in London, leader of the Design Products course Tord Boontje talks about selected projects including food containers made of radioactive soil and suits for living in someone else's skin. More »
Royal College of Art graduate Po-Chih Lai has designed a skateboard that can go down stairs (+ movie). More »
Royal College of Art graduate Gaspard Tiné-Berès has designed slippers made from just one piece of felt and a shoelace (+ movie). More »
This eye-tracking camera by Royal College of Art graduate Mimi Zou is controlled by blinking and squinting – and even recognises your friends when it looks into their eyes (+ movie). More »
Our coverage of the Royal College of Art graduate show begins with these food storage jars made of radioactive earth from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster area in Japan. More »
Milan 2012: the 400 wooden slats of this table top by Mauricio Affonso allow it to expand, contract and fan out into a full circle. More »
Having noticed piles of old books used as props in fashionable boutiques and bars, Royal College of Art student Koby Barhad created this "time machine" to accelerate the ageing of new tomes into objects with a sense of history. More »
Dezeen Wire: architect and structural engineer Charles Walker has been appointed head of architecture at the Royal College of Art in London, while designer Ab Rogers will become head of interior design. More »
Check out all our stories about this year's Royal College of Art graduate show, including a 3D-printer that uses sunlight to make sand into glass objects, clothes that feed information to smart phones and spectacle frames made of hair. See all the stories »
