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Awards

The RSA awards people who take significant strides in advancing the arts, manufacture and commerce

Royal Designers for Industry

The RDI is the highest accolade for designers in the UK. Only 200 designers can hold the title.

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Black calendar-style cover with "Royal Designers Now" written in white bold letters. The background is bright yellow.

Student Design Awards

The Student Design Awards were the world’s longest-running design competition, celebrating 100 years of recognising innovative ideas by 2024.

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A group of people posing on a stage in front of a screen displaying "Designing Our Futures: The 2022 RSA Student Design Awards." Some individuals are holding white objects. The background features large paintings.

Albert Medal

The RSA Albert Medal honours outstanding, regenerative and impactful innovation that is enabling people, places and the planet to flourish in harmony.

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Two bronze medallions: left shows a profile of a bearded man labeled "Albert Prince Consort President 1842-61"; right depicts a standing figure and two seated figures with the text "Arts Manufactures Commerce MDCCGCLXIII.

Benjamin Franklin Medal

The Benjamin Franklin Medal is awarded to an American who reflects the values of inquiry, civic empowerment, and a desire to improve society

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Bronze medal with a relief of Benjamin Franklin in the center. Surrounding text reads: "Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790," "Member of the Society of Arts," and "1756." Franklin is depicted in period clothing.

Bicentenary Medal

The RSA Bicentenary Medal was instituted in 1954 to commemorate the founding of the RSA over two hundred years earlier

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