The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design hosted a special lecture by Peter B Lloyd, author of Vignelli: Transit Maps (RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press), on Tuesday 7 May 2013 to mark our growing relationship Vignelli Center for Design Studies at Rochester Institute of Technology. More...
The Design that Makes a Difference exhibition on inclusive design was opened on Friday 19 April by the Norwegian ambassador. It showcased 20 projects from the UK and Norway including Gov.uk and the Olympic Park. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s redesign of the emergency ambulance won a Design For All Foundation Award in March 2013, the latest in a string of international prizes for this flagship design research project. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design is a partner at the RCA in The Creative Exchange (CX), a knowledge exchange hub funded by the AHRC which is exploring the innovation potential of digital public space. Here Kevin Walker reports on a recent CX workshop at the RCA. More...
A research team from Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design spent a week in the mental health unit at Scotland’s Forth Valley Royal Hospital in January 2013 as part of a project to create a better environment for patients and staff. More...
The inclusive design legacy arising from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games was the subject of a special seminar hosted by the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design on the RCA’s Battersea campus on 29 November 2012. More...
Projects from the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design were featured in a healthcare exhibition held in London as part of The King’s Fund annual conference on 27-28 November 2012. The show marked the 50th anniversary of The King’s Fund hospital bed, designed at the RCA in 1963. More...
The British Council hosted an exhibition of work from the UK-Croatia Extra/Ordinary Design Workshops in January 2013, following an award-winning series of inclusive design workshops devised by Julia Cassim, visiting senior research fellow in the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s collaboration with Imperial College London on the DOME (Designing Out Medical Error) research project has won two international awards and led to the introduction of a new iPhone app to measure the respiratory rate of patients. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design has launched its own Doctoral Study Programme and has welcomed its first four PhD candidates to the centre. More...
Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design director Jeremy Myerson took part in a major forum on the future of workspace design at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London on Friday 23 November as part of the centre's partnership with the IE School of Architecture and Design in Madrid. More...
Four teams of RCA students worked with three London based community projects on a brief based on work in the Creative Citizen project. By Catherine Greene. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design's annual exhibition of work by its research associates took place at the Royal College of Art this autumn as part of the 2012 London Design Festival. Its title paid homage to the 40th anniversary of the English-language publication of Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s flagship redesign of the emergency ambulance has received two prestigious international awards from the Industrial Designers Society of America and the Victor J Papanek Foundation. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Design Awards 2012, which recognise and reward life-enhancing projects by graduating Royal College of Art students, was presented in the Senior Common Room at the RCA on Tuesday 26 June. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design partnered with the Norwegian Design Council to run the European Business Workshops on Inclusive Design in Oslo on 7-8 June 2012. The collaboration focused on an executive education in inclusive design aimed at educators, designers and businesses. More...
An academic paper on workspace design written by Catherine Greene and Jeremy Myerson of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design has won an Outstanding Paper Award in the Emerald Literati Network 2012 Awards for Excellence. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s landmark redesign of the emergency ambulance has won the Transport category of the 2012 Design of the Year Awards organised by the Design Museum. More...
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s landmark redesign of the emergency ambulance has received extensive BBC television coverage following its selection for the Designs of the Year 2012 exhibition and awards at the Design Museum, London. More...
More than 14 million people in the UK can be termed 'digitally excluded' and the majority of these are older people. By Jeremy Myerson. More...
