Phabit device rewards your daily exercise by keeping a plant alive
This connected plant pot designed by Royal College of Art graduate Jen-Hsien Chiu feeds or starves a plant depending on its user's behaviour. More
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Wearable pods let musicians compose and perform tracks as vibrations on your skin
Royal College of Art graduate Marie Tricaud has designed a set of wearable modules that let live music be performed as "vibration loops and temperature melodies" on your skin. More
Andrea Mestre questions how office chairs should look and feel with rattan frame
Influenced by the blurring of home and work environments, RCA graduate Andrea Mestre has designed an office chair made from rattan. More
Jelly-like Living Plates tremble and bounce in response to food
These silicone plates designed by Royal College of Art graduate Lina Saleh wobble and jiggle to influence how diners experience their dinner. More
Packaging design for popular podcasts imagines them contained in cans, books and pamphlets
To add tactility to the listening experience, Royal College of Art graduate Seungtae Oh created these packaging designs for podcasts including Serial and 99% Invisible. More
RCA graduates propose new Strata system as a way to extend the lifecycle of furniture
Royal College of Art graduates Katrine Hesseldahl and Victor Strimfors have designed a modular sofa made from three distinct layers in an attempt to combat furniture waste. More
Royal College of Art 2017 graduate show opens this weekend
Dezeen promotion: a mask for creating the perfect selfie pose, hand-blown glass vessels and a performance featuring a body covered in glitter are among the projects that will be exhibited during the Royal College of Art's 2017 graduate show. More
15 highlights from this year's Royal College of Art MA Fashion show
As voters took to the polls last week for the UK's general election, the Royal College of Art's MA fashion students were putting on their end-of-year show at an old studio in east London. Design reporter Alice Morby picks her highlights from the evening's catwalk show, installations and performance pieces. More
Royal College of Art launches masters degrees in environmental architecture and city design
Dezeen promotion: London's RCA has launched two new 15-month MA programmes in environmental architecture and city design starting in September 2017. More
World's leading design schools create bikes adapted to each of their cities for Punkt
Swiss technology brand Punkt's Urban Mobility project, shown at Milan design week, asked students from three top design schools to create electric bicycles that would encourage city-dwellers to cycle more. More
Royal College of Art students design The Brinery home fermentation tool
The Brinery is a home fermentation vessel designed by a team of Royal College of Art students to kickstart interest in the "forgotten" process of preserving vegetables. More
RCA named world's top design school for third year running
The Royal College of Art has again been named the world's leading art and design university, according to a recent international survey. More
Empathy kit uses augmented reality and candy to help users better understand autism
This kit by Royal College of Art graduate Heeju Kim uses sweets to recreate the tongue-tying experience of living with autism. More
Royal College of Art named most popular design school on Dezeen Hot List
London's Royal College of Art is the design school that Dezeen readers most want to hear about, finds our inaugural Dezeen Hot List. More
Herzog & de Meuron wins contest for new Royal College of Art campus
Herzog & de Meuron has been selected to design the new Royal College of Art campus in Battersea, southwest London. More
Sharon Baurley to step down as head of Design Products at Royal College of Art
Sharon Baurley, head of the Royal College of Art's Design Products programme, is leaving after just three years to take up a post at a "prestigious European institution". More
Inefficiency Machines by Meret Vollenweider and Wasabii Ng highlight energy use in the home
Graduate shows 2016: in this movie, Royal College of Art graduate Meret Vollenweider explains how the interactive installation of human-powered appliances she and fellow graduate Wasabii Ng designed aims to stop people taking electricity for granted. More
Johnny Lui reimagines London planning process as multiplayer video game
Graduate shows 2016: in this movie, Royal College of Art graduate Johnny Lui explains his concept for a digital planning system, which architects would play like a video game to get projects built in the real world. More
Herzog & de Meuron and Studio Gang on shortlist for new RCA campus
Herzog & de Meuron, Studio Gang and Diller Scofidio + Renfro are among the star-studded list of architects in the running to design a new campus for London's Royal College of Art. More
Fiona O'Leary designs pocket-sized font detector
Graduate shows 2016: Royal College of Art graduate Fiona O'Leary has designed a prototype gadget that can identify the font used in any book or magazine (+ movie). More