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Details of upcoming events for 2010-2011 at the Royal College of Art and InnovationRCA. More...
YouTube's Chad Hurley at Innovation Night 2010
YouTube founder and CEO Chad Hurley was the guest speaker at RCA Innovation Night on Tuesday 29 June 2010. More...
Selected Start-Ups pitching
May 2010 saw the first ever Selected Start-Ups early stage business investment evening at the Royal College of Art when six student-led enterprises pitched to 30 angel investors. More...
Zara Gorman selected as an ITS#NINE finalist
Zara Gorman, designer of the Flat Pack Hat, an InnovationRCA Selected Work, has been selected by an international jury as a finalist in the ITS#Accessories category of this Award. More...
Launch of the Selected Works Programme 2010
On 16 February, FuelRCA hosted the annual James Dyson Intellectual Property (IP) Rights Seminar and launched both the Selected Works Programme 2010 and the fourth James Dyson Innovation Fellowship. More...
Materials resources for art, design and business
InnovationRCA hosted the first Materials and Design Exchange (MADE) Forum of 2010. Over 50 design educators, practitioners, scientists and manufacturers debated what kind of resource would help improve access to materials and process know-how. More...
InnovationRCA research behind Safe Pint Glass
On 4 February, the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, launched prototypes of a new generation of 'safe' pint glasses - possibly the most significant innovation in drinking vessel design for 50 years. More...
InnovationRCA under new direction
After five years as Director of InnovationRCA, Jeremy Myerson has relinquished the role to concentrate on leading the Helen Hamlyn Centre as the first Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design. More...
Crossbreed Folding Wheel selected
The Crossbreed foldable wheelchair wheel is currently being developed for commercialisation by Dyson Innovation Fellow, Duncan Fitzsimons, in collaboration with InnovationRCA. The design has been selected by Wolff Olins and Wallpaper* Magazine as one of 10 Designs For 2010 that they believe will make a big impact on the world in the year to come. More...
RCA at London Design Festival 2009
The Royal College of Art made its mark at this autumn’s London Design Festival with two major exhibitions in the RCA galleries exploring aspects of sustainable and inclusive design, and a one-day innovation fair called Exploring Innovation. More...
RCA brand valued at £57million
The Royal College of Art brand has been valued at £57 million by leading brand consultancy Interbrand in an exercise believed to be the first of its kind in the higher education sector. More...
Jonathan Ive at Innovation Night 2009
Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Computer, was the special guest at the Royal College of Art’s Innovation Night 2009 on 30 June, organised by InnovationRCA. More...
The Simulator has landed
The Simulator, a new innovation facility to help RCA students and graduates to visualise their ideas, has been set up in the Royal College of Art’s Stevens Building by Design London, the College’s joint venture with Imperial College. More...
London Experience Innovation Forum
The London Experience, a new innovation forum for brand leaders in London piloted by InnovationRCA in association with Think London, has stepped up its activities. More...
Safe Ways With Glass (SWIG)
Innovation RCA in playing a key role in the campaign to design safer beer and wine glasses and reduce alcohol-related violence in Britain through an innovation project called SWIG (Safe Ways In Glass), commissioned by the Home Office and the Design Council. More...
New Selected Works 2009
New student innovations from the Royal College of Art have been chosen for commercial development this summer by InnovationRCA’s Selected Works Panel. More...
Future Acoustic launch
Royal College of Art spinout company Future Acoustic, which is developing advanced new concepts in acoustic technology, has announced the launch of its first products on the Apple iTunes platform. More...
Deutsche Bank support graduates
Two Royal College of Art graduates have cashed in at the 2009 Deutsche Bank Awards, which provide practical and financial support for arts graduates to start a business or carry out a project directly upon leaving college. More...
Olympic Gardens community workshop
InnovationRCA has stepped up its London 2012 Olympics programme with a community workshop to generate locally-inspired art and design ideas for the Olympic Park. More...
Swedish photography 2009
An exhibition by three new Swedish graduates of the RCA’s Department of Photography goes on show during July at the European Commission’s 12 Star Gallery in London. More...
Innovation Fellowship in Materials
Yemi Awosile of RCA Textiles is the first recipient of an Innovation Fellowship in Materials at the Royal College of Art, awarded by the London Design Festival. She has developed a range of cork-based textiles. More...
FutureSound launch
Royal College of Art spinout company Future Acoustic, which is developing advanced new concepts in acoustic technology, has announced the launch of its first product, FutureSound. More...
New licence signed
A licence for the development and manufacture of the Tongue Sucker device, has been signed between major first aid supplier, Wallace Cameron Group, the Royal College of Art and four graduates of the Royal College of Art. More...
Research Fellowship awarded
Adrian Westaway has been awarded a Research fellowship in Design by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. More...
Licence for hospital trolley partner
A Royal College of Art innovation project to redesign the standard hospital resuscitation trolley – or ‘crash trolley’ as it is better known – has granted a licence for European production to Bristol Maid (Hospital Metalcraft Ltd), which is manufacturing five prototype trolleys for clinical trials. More...
London Experience innovation forum
The London Experience, a new innovation forum for brand leaders in London, was piloted by InnovationRCA in association with Think London at last year's Innovation Night. Now is has stepped up its activities. More...
