The Royal Designers Summer School sets new challenges

The 8th Royal Designers Summer School is looking for new recruits.  Each year the Royal Designers invite 30 young designers to a four-day design experience in a rural location.  The Summer School is run like a live experiment, where no one quite knows what will happen.  Designers will explore changing themes throughout the event, and this year the starting point will be ‘designer humans’.  Summer School directors, Chris Wise, RDI Master and Ed McCann, environmentalist will be on hand to set the challenges.

The distinction 'Royal Designer for Industry' was established by the RSA in 1936 to encourage a high standard of industrial design and enhance the status of designers. It is awarded to people who have achieved 'sustained excellence in aesthetic and efficient design for industry.

Royal Designers are responsible for designing, amongst other things, the Millennium Bridge, the iPod, the Rolls-Royce jet engine, the Harry Potter film sets, the Mini-Skirt, the Kenwood Chef and the B of the Bang.  Only 200 designers may hold the distinction RDI at any time and it is regarded as the highest honour to be obtained in the United Kingdom in the field of Industrial Design.

The Summer School costs £100 including food, drink, travel and accommodation and is supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

To find out more about the Summer School and to download an application pack, go to www.theRSA.org/summerschool