Student
Design Awards
Think differently about design
The RSA’s Student Design Awards has a 100-year legacy of celebrating the ideas of young social innovators. It was the world’s longest-running design competition and in 2024.
Every year, we invited young designers and students from across the globe to apply their skills and creativity to design briefs that focus on the most pressing social and environmental challenges. Since the first prizes were given out 1924, the Student Design Awards welcomed over 110,000 projects from over 20 countries.
The awards were a prestigious springboard for participants’ careers. Our alumni include:
- Richard Howarth – Apple, VP of Design
- Betty Jackson MBE – Fashion designer
- Matt McGrath – Aircraft Medical founder and inventor of the video laryngoscope.
The Student Design Awards offered the chance to learn from, and be inspired by, this century’s old tapestry of incredible changemakers.
Student Design Awards winners 2023-24
See the winning submissions from our 2023-2024 Student Design Awards.
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Case study
Katie Allen puts sustainability at fashion’s core
Katie became an RSA Fellow in 2021 after winning the Student Design Award for her soil‑to‑soil knitwear collection. Read more about her work.
Blog
The Student Design Awards’ most ambitious year yet
Learn about our legacy of active inclusion and our commitment to making 2023-24 the boldest and most far-reaching Pupil and Student Design Awards cycles yet.
Blog
Sophie Hague: me and my education
Sophie Hague, a 2022 Student Design Award winner, explains how design helped to identify the learning techniques that worked for her.
