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Read about Design Directions and its related work.
Call for change in design education
Is design education keeping pace with the growing demand for new design professionals able to operate in a range of service-based environments was the question arising from our recent pamphlet, Social Animals: tomorrow's designers in today's world. Published in June 2009 the author, Sophia Parker, argues that design education is still largely hinged on industrial principles. Students need to be equipped with a broader range of research and communication skills, alongside their more traditional design skills, and encouraged to think more laterally about the sites and spaces where these could be used
Launch of Design & Society
At a reception held at the RSA on 23 July, the Society's new design programme was launched. Taking as its starting point the RSA's central mission to foster good citizenship by closing the gap between our everyday behaviour and the future to which we aspire, Design and Society argues that design is fundamental to achieving this aim because of the particular resourcefulness that designers represent. Ready to improvise and prototype, brave in the face of disorder and complexity, holistic and people-centred in their approach to defining problems, designers have a vital role to play today in making society itself more resourceful.
RDInsights
RDInsights
is a series of lively and informal interviews conducted by graphic designer
Mike Dempsey RDI with fellow Royal Designers.
They span a wide range of fascinating design disciplines.
Trefor Campbell Award 2007
A
new initiative to produce ethical, fair-trade underwear for men won
Ryan Crewe the Trefor Campbell Enterprise Award this year. He was given
£15,000 towards the start up costs of his business and intends
to spend the money on product development and materials, as well as
to conduct further research and development.
RSA Flying Start 2007
Read
more on the 2007 RSA Flying Start programme for design graduates wishing
to start their own businesses. The £15,000 Trefor Campbell Award
is again on offer.
Tutor Briefing Day 2007
RSA Design Directions 2007/08
Designing our Futures
Read
more on the RSA exhibition Designing our Futures, part of the international
conference on Inclusive Design held at the Royal College of Art, London
on 2-4 April 2007.
Trefor Campbell Award 2006
Read
about the award scheme for young graduate design entrepreneurs initiated
by RSA Fellow Dr Trefor Campbell CBE as part of the Flying Start programme
provided by the RSA and the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship
(NCGE).
Goodone Clothing
Read
about Goodone Clothing, a start-up fashion business selling ethically
produced fashion. Goodone were winners of the first Trefor Campbell Award
after demonstrating outstanding entrepreneurial skill during their participation
in the RSA Flying Start programme.
RSA Flying Start 2006
Flying
Start is the national investment readiness programme for UK university
graduates of design and creative arts courses provided by the RSA and
the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE).
Dott
Find
out about the RSA'S collaboration with the Designs of the time (Dott)
project run by the Design Council. The project provides designers, businesses
and public service providers with an opportunity to engage citizens in
projects to improve their daily life through design.
Tutor briefing day 2006
Access
presentations from the 2006 tutor briefing day. Project reference material
includes Sustainable Packaging, Design for Patient Safety, Wellbeing,
and Postage Stamps.