Vehicle Design at the RCA aims to harness, encourage and extend students’ skills and processes. It seeks innovation with practicality, marrying experience and practice to creative thinking, and blending teaching and learning seamlessly in a climate of informed opinion that is supported by in-depth research, creative cross-disciplinary projects, teamwork and academic excellence. 


We offer unexpected challenges and unusual viewpoints, sparking creativity and supplying critical analysis. Above all, we empower individual expression, seek innovative solutions and demand aesthetic excellence through design for a better world.


Vehicle Design is a complex subject, concerned with aerodynamics, environmental impact, ergonomics, legislation, materials, production, safety and technology. The programme seeks to pioneer new design, innovation and new approaches for our mobile futures. Three Pathways help to define and focus the work through Urban Flow, Automark and Inside-out. The graduates presenting here are not only the future of the discipline, they are defining it. The work represents their aspirations, concerns and hopes.