🥲 Our incredible art and design students let you know what it's like to graduate from the Royal College of Art... So could 2026 be the year you start your RCA journey?

🤩 2025 was an incredible year at the RCA of awards, research, new partnerships, new scholarships, exhibitions and student success across art and design. Here are our highlights👇 www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Best designs of 2025 from @dezeen.com featuring a carbon-negative compostable polystyrene alternative from our MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering grads at Carbon Cell 👇 www.dezeen.com/2025/12/16/b...

We've all been there...

Last week of term!

💡 What makes an MDes Design Futures student different? Thinking beyond the present 👀 looking at the big picture 🌍 and using design as a tool to understand complex systems 🔧 Find out more ➡️ https://bit.ly/3L3txcH

From ballroom dancing to an MA Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art. This is how Maki Takato combines performance and digital technology in her art ⬇️ https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/from-ballroom-dancing-to-boundaries-of-light-inside-the-practice-of-maki-takato/

From the Royal College of Art archives... In the workshops with Claire Boyd's (MA Textile Design, 1971) designs. Courtesy of Royal College of Art archive, photographer unknown

⭐ ⭐ Two Royal College of Art graduates have been names as new Royal Designers for Industry: Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (MA and PhD Design Interactions, 2017) and Frith Kerr (MA Visual Communication, 1997)!

1965, Royal College of Art student Ian Robins Dury. He graduated in 1966 with an MA in Painting

'Emerging artists are the most daring...' 👍 🎨 Meet the RCA graduates Jaguar picked in their first Arts Awards in @wallpapermag.bsky.social ⬇️ https://www.wallpaper.com/art/jaguar-arts-awards-2025-winners

The new Jaguar Arts Awards in partnership with London’s Royal College of Art embody a shared drive to nurture new talent; meet the 2025 winners https://www.wallpaper.com/art/jaguar-arts-awards-2025-winners

Beautiful work from one of our graduates @sonjaseidl.bsky.social 🤩

Bobs Gogill Haworth River and Road n.d., Watercolour 20" x 24" South African born Canadian painter Bobs Cogill Haworth (1900-1988) co-founded the Canadian Group of Painters with members of the Group of 7. She studied at the Royal College of Art in London, before she emigrated to Toronto in 1923.

A plastic free polystyrene alternative from our MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering graduates that sequesters carbon dioxide featured in @dezeen.com 👇

We asked our graduates' friends and family what their art and design degree was in... Let's see how they did 😋

Celebrating the creative in-between...✏️ A new online journal from our School of Arts & Humanities, 'draught' seeks to honour the creative process by documenting works that are in progress. Contributors to the first issue include @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social... www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

There's something missing in this photo from the Royal College of Art archive... From 6 January 1960 we can see the beginnings of our Kensington campus here with @royalalberthall.bsky.social in the background 🫶 Follow us to see more from our archives 👀

For the last 10 years the RCA has partnered with Chelsea + Westminster NHS Trust to provide digital artworks for their waiting rooms like this one by Paola Estrella. We're celebrating the partnership at our Battersea campus on Thursday 27 November 👇 www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

An excellent piece in @vittles.bsky.social by one of our recent @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social Writing graduates, Mariam Abdel-Razek.

'Photography does not pick a side' our MA Curating Contemporary Art graduate, Harriet Zhang tells us. Harriet recently co-curated 'From Allegory to Algorithm' for our MA Photography’s participation at Jimei × Arles, featuring around 20 Chinese RCA alumni artists. Read our interview: bit.ly/4pn35Jz

🚽👍 #WorldToiletDay with @gaillyk.bsky.social from our Helen Hamlyn Centre for inclusive design...

"He wants us not only to pay greater attention to the world...but also to attend to his methods of presentation." 📸 Our Head of MA Writing, @jeremymillar.bsky.social writes in the @financialtimes.com on Christopher Williams new exhibition 👇 www.ft.com/content/a68d...

What would it be like to study at the Royal College of Art 💭

"I see research as something that must connect ideas to action" 💡➡️👩‍🔧 Professor Hala Mansour (Head of Doctoral Programmes) leads a global research community making real impact. We are accepting applications for PhDs on animation, fashion, textiles for January 2026! 📥 www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

For decades our MA Animation graduates have been helping to build the worlds of Aardman Animation which brought us Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run. Today, five RCA alumni hold senior creative roles shaping everything from commercials to their Aardman Academy 👇 www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Harold Offeh, Head of our MA Contemporary Art Practice is an artist engaging with the world through the possibilities of play. In his first solo retrospective, Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet at Kettle's Yard, Offeh looks back at 20 years of work. www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

📥 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: How can immersive experiences shape a more equitable world? 🌎 Immersive Acts: Disrupting the Frame by Otherwise Narratives is a Royal College of Art symposium inviting contributions on how immersive technologies can be leveraged for good. www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

🏅 We are delighted that Lady Helen Hamlyn CBE has been awarded the 2025 Sir Misha Black Medal for Distinguished Services to Design Education! A close RCA ally, she founded DesignAge which became our Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, a global leader in inclusive design. www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

🎓 New PhD Studentship Opportunity! 🎓 The Royal College of Art Creative & Caring Communities (CCC) Doctoral Landscape Award (DLA) delivers an experience-led, cultural, interdisciplinary and inclusive space for doctoral research in design and humanities. Apply now ⬇️ www.rca.ac.uk/study/apply-...

So humbled to be part of this consortium #phd #epsrc @ukri.org #funding #ecologicalcitizens #funded #phdchat

🍃 Are you a interested in a PhD in NetZero Futures? The NetZero Futures Doctoral Landscape are offering fully funded EPSRC studentships for Royal College of Art PhD students starting in September 2026 and September 2027. How to apply ➡️ www.rca.ac.uk/study/apply-...

👋 Interested in the world's no. 1 art and design university? Open Days are a chance to learn more about our programmes, meet with tutors and staff and see our facilities. Book here: bit.ly/3WtBwSq

📣 Announcing the winners of Pokémon scholarship, Zachary Miller-Waugh (MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering) and Aileen Gavonel (MA Ceramics & Glass). The Pokémon Scholarship provides support to two pioneering RCA students breaking new ground. Find out more 👉 www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

This is what it feels like to graduate from the Royal College of Art 🎓 Our graduation ceremony @southbankcentre.bsky.social in London last month was an amazing chance to celebrate our 2025 graduates! We can’t wait to see them forge their unique paths in art and design 👏

♻️ How is personal wellbeing connected to sustainable consumption? A new @natureportfolio.nature.com article from our Materials Science Research Centre argues they might be more connected than you think... Read the article 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today we launch a #book #engaging #design www.epflpress.org/produit/1606... #download #openaccess #design @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social @epfllibrary.bsky.social

Royal College of Art to honour Nick Cave with honorary doctorate

Our Doctoral Researchers have been busy. From a visit by His Majesty The King, to Damien Roach’s Grounding at SXSW London, and preparations for SPACEX (Coventry Biennial, November 2025), there’s plenty to celebrate. Discover the latest from our research community: bit.ly/46nF2CD

Congratulations to this year's winners of the RCA's third annual Hyundai Awards for Excellence in Sustainability and Creative Practice! Learn more: bit.ly/4lMUrBN #Sustainability #Design #ProductDesign

📣 We're pleased to announce Professor Hua Dong as Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design! Our longest-running research centre specialises in inclusive design for population ageing, disability, health and social care with impact across society. Find out more ➡️ www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

We're 'fluent in disruption' at the Royal College of Art! i-D on our MA Fashion graduating students #RCA2025 exhibition 'where garments are treated as vessels for critique as well as craft.' Find out more 👉 i-d.co/article/roya...

Motivational advice at the @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social last night

Great @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social interview with London Loo Alliance member @gaillyk.bsky.social @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Congratulations to the winners of this year's School of Architecture prizes. This year's winning projects span everything from queer temporal frameworks and speculative reuse to conflict-driven spatial justice, and historical landscape research. Discover the award winners ➡️ bit.ly/459nZ6r

📣 A new three-year research project brings together universities in Brazil, South Africa and the UK including the RCA to explore the history of graphic design for street protests. Funded by @ukri.org, @agenciafapesp.bsky.social and NRF. Find out more ➡️ www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Popped into the @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social Service Design MA show on the way back. Some really good stuff. The GOV•UK gang should check out the Shared Parental Leave demo which also uses learnings from UC. @joelanman.bsky.social @tomski.com

Sorted 🙃 #RCA2025 continues to showcase the work of our graduating students at the Royal College of Art campuses and venues across London on selected dates until 23 July… Find out what’s coming up👇 www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

"We’re seeing a very expanded idea of photography, and disrupting the traditional notion that we need a camera at all." The Big Interview: James Coupe, Head of Photography at the Royal College of Art www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/05/the-... 💪 @RoyalCollegeofArt.bsky.social

Thank you Bloomsbury @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, Royal College of Art @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design for supporting us, and of course Jo-Anne Bichard for suggesting we do this. Seemed like madness to me but we did it! 🏆 I'm delighted 😘