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Royal College of Art

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The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, in the United Kingdom. [1]

75 relations: Alan Rickman, Anodizing, Architecture, Art, Barbara Hepworth, Battersea, Bridget Riley, Charles Tunnicliffe, Christopher Dresser, Christopher Frayling, Communication, David Hockney, David Mellor (designer), Design, Design engineer, Design history, Doctor of Philosophy, Edwin Lutyens, Frank Auerbach, George Clausen, Gertrude Jekyll, Graphic design, H. T. Cadbury-Brown, Haworth Tompkins, Henry Moore, Hugh Casson, Ian Dury, Imperial College London, Industrial design, Jake and Dinos Chapman, James Dyson, Jony Ive, Kate Greenaway, Keio University, Kensington Gore, Listed building, London, Luke Fildes, Marlborough House, Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy, Master of Science, Modern Painters (magazine), Mortimer Sackler, Normal school, Ossie Clark, Paul Thompson (rector), Peter Blake (artist), Photography, Postgraduate education, ..., Pratt Institute, Printmaking, Product design, Public university, QS World University Rankings, Quacquarelli Symonds, R. B. Kitaj, Research Assessment Exercise, Research university, Richard Burchett, Ridley Scott, River Thames, Royal charter, Sculpture, Sheila Robinson, Somerset House, South Kensington, Sylvia Pankhurst, Thomas Heatherwick, Tony Scott, Tracey Emin, Urban area, Victoria and Albert Museum, Woo Po-shing, Zandra Rhodes. Expand index (25 more) »

Alan Rickman

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (21 February 1946 – 14 January 2016) was an English actor and director known for playing a variety of roles on stage, television and film.

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Anodizing

Anodizing (spelled anodising in British English) is an electrolytic passivation process used to increase the thickness of the natural oxide layer on the surface of metal parts.

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Architecture

Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures.

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Art

Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative, conceptual idea, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.

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Barbara Hepworth

Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor.

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Battersea

Battersea is a district of south west London, England, within the London Borough of Wandsworth.

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Bridget Riley

Bridget Louise Riley (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter who is one of the foremost exponents of Op art.

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Charles Tunnicliffe

Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, OBE, RA (1 December 1901 – 7 February 1979) was an internationally renowned naturalistic painter of British birds and other wildlife.

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Christopher Dresser

Christopher Dresser (4 July 1834 in Glasgow – 24 November 1904 in Mulhouse) was a designer and design theorist, now widely known as one of the first and most important, independent designers.

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Christopher Frayling

Sir Christopher John Frayling (born 25 December 1946) is a British educationalist and writer, known for his study of popular culture.

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Communication

Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.

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David Hockney

David Hockney, (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer.

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David Mellor (designer)

David Rogerson Mellor,CBE, FCSD, RDI (5 October 1930 – 7 May 2009) was an English designer, manufacturer, craftsman and retailer.

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Design

Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object, system or measurable human interaction (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams, and sewing patterns).

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Design engineer

A design engineer is a person who may be involved in any of various engineering disciplines including civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical, textiles, aerospace, nuclear, manufacturing, systems, and structural /building/architectural.

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Design history

Design history is the study of objects of design in their historical and stylistic contexts.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.

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Edwin Lutyens

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.

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Frank Auerbach

Frank Helmut Auerbach (born 29 April 1931) is a German-British painter.

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George Clausen

Sir George Clausen (18 April 1852 – 22 November 1944), was an English artist working in oil and watercolour, etching, mezzotint, dry point and occasionally lithographs.

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Gertrude Jekyll

Gertrude Jekyll (29 November 1843 – 8 December 1932) was a British horticulturist, garden designer, artist, and writer.

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Graphic design

Graphic design is the process of visual communication and problem-solving through the use of typography, photography and illustration.

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H. T. Cadbury-Brown

Henry Thomas Cadbury-Brown RA (20 May 1913 – 9 July 2009) was an English architect.

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Haworth Tompkins

Haworth Tompkins was formed in 1991 by architects Graham Haworth and Steve Tompkins.

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Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist.

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Hugh Casson

Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson (23 May 1910, Hampstead, London – 15 August 1999, Chelsea, London) was an English architect, interior designer, artist, and writer and broadcaster on 20th-century design.

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Ian Dury

Ian Robins Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000) was an English singer-songwriter and actor who rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music.

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Imperial College London

Imperial College London (officially Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom.

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Industrial design

Industrial design is a process of design applied to products that are to be manufactured through techniques of mass production.

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Jake and Dinos Chapman

Iakovos "Jake" (born 1966) and Konstantinos "Dinos" (born 1962) are British visual artists, often known as the Chapman Brothers.

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James Dyson

Sir James Dyson (born 2 May 1947) is a British inventor, industrial design engineer and founder of the Dyson company.

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Jony Ive

Sir Jonathan Paul Ive, KBE, HonFREng, RDI (born 27 February 1967) is an English industrial designer who is currently the chief design officer (CDO) of Apple and chancellor of the Royal College of Art in London.

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Kate Greenaway

Catherine Greenaway (17 March 18466 November 1901) was a Victorian artist and writer, known for her children's book illustrations.

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Keio University

, abbreviated as or, is a private university located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Kensington Gore

Kensington Gore is the name of two thoroughfares on the south side of Hyde Park in central London, England.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Luke Fildes

Sir Samuel Luke Fildes (3 October 1843 – 28 February 1927) was an English painter and illustrator born in Liverpool and trained at the South Kensington and Royal Academy schools.

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Marlborough House

Marlborough House, a Grade I listed mansion in St James's (City of Westminster, Inner London), is the headquarters of the Commonwealth of Nations and the seat of the Commonwealth Secretariat.

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Master of Arts

A Master of Arts (Magister Artium; abbreviated MA; also Artium Magister, abbreviated AM) is a person who was admitted to a type of master's degree awarded by universities in many countries, and the degree is also named Master of Arts in colloquial speech.

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Master of Philosophy

The Master of Philosophy (abbr. M.Phil. or MPhil, sometimes Ph.M.; Latin Magister Philosophiae or Philosophiae Magister) is a postgraduate degree.

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Master of Science

A Master of Science (Magister Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM, or Sc.M.) is a master's degree in the field of science awarded by universities in many countries, or a person holding such a degree.

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Modern Painters (magazine)

Modern Painters is a monthly art magazine.

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Mortimer Sackler

Mortimer David Sackler (December 7, 1916 – March 24, 2010) was an American physician and entrepreneur.

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Normal school

A normal school was an institution created to train high school graduates to be teachers by educating them in the norms of pedagogy and curriculum.

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Ossie Clark

Raymond "Ossie" Clark (9 June 1942 – 6 August 1996) was an English fashion designer who was a major figure in the Swinging Sixties scene in London and the fashion industry in that era.

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Paul Thompson (rector)

Paul Warwick Thompson FRSA (born in Oxford, England, 9 August 1959) is rector of the Royal College of Art in London, England.

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Peter Blake (artist)

Sir Peter Thomas Blake, CBE, RDI, RA (born 25 June 1932) is an English pop artist, best known for co-creating the sleeve design for the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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Photography

Photography is the science, art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

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Postgraduate education

Postgraduate education, or graduate education in North America, involves learning and studying for academic or professional degrees, academic or professional certificates, academic or professional diplomas, or other qualifications for which a first or bachelor's degree generally is required, and it is normally considered to be part of higher education.

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Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute is a private, nonsectarian, non-profit institution of higher learning located in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, United States, with a satellite campus located at 14th Street in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York (Pratt MWP).

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Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper.

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Product design

Product design as a verb is to create a new product to be sold by a business to its customers.

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Public university

A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities.

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QS World University Rankings

QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

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Quacquarelli Symonds

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) is a British company specialising in education.

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R. B. Kitaj

Ronald Brooks Kitaj (October 29, 1932 – October 21, 2007) was an American artist with Jewish roots who spent much of his life in England.

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Research Assessment Exercise

The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) was an exercise undertaken approximately every 5 years on behalf of the four UK higher education funding councils (HEFCE, SHEFC, HEFCW, DELNI) to evaluate the quality of research undertaken by British higher education institutions.

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Research university

A research university is a university that expects all its tenured and tenure-track faculty to continuously engage in research, as opposed to merely requiring it as a condition of an initial appointment or tenure.

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Richard Burchett

Richard Burchett (1815–1875) was a British artist and educator on the fringes of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who was for over twenty years the Headmaster of what later became the Royal College of Art.

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Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer.

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River Thames

The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.

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Royal charter

A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Sheila Robinson

Sheila Robinson (1925–1988) was a noted artist and illustrator, one of the Great Bardfield Artists and member of staff at the Royal College of Art.

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Somerset House

Somerset House is a large Neoclassical building situated on the south side of the Strand in central London, overlooking the River Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge.

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South Kensington

South Kensington is an affluent district of West London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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Sylvia Pankhurst

Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was an English campaigner for the suffragette movement, a prominent left communist and, later, an activist in the cause of anti-fascism.

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Thomas Heatherwick

Thomas Alexander Heatherwick, CBE, RDI, HonFREng (born 17 February 1970) is an English designer and the founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio.

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Tony Scott

Anthony David Leighton Scott (21 June 1944 – 19 August 2012) was an English film director and producer.

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Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin, CBE, RA (born 3 July 1963) is an English contemporary artist known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment.

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Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects.

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Woo Po-shing

Sir Woo Po-shing, LLD, FCIArb, FIMgt, FInstD, FHKMA (born 19 April 1929) is a Hong Kong solicitor, entrepreneur, politician and philanthropist.

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Zandra Rhodes

Dame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes, (born 19 September 1940), is an English fashion designer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_College_of_Art

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