Helen Hamlyn Design Awards
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The annual Helen Hamlyn Design Awards recognise the best RCA student projects that use design to improve people’s lives. It is a competition that rewards creativity in people-centred design across all disciplines of the College.
Helen Hamlyn Design Awards 2021
The annual Helen Hamlyn Design Awards recognise the best RCA student projects that use design to improve people’s lives. It is a competition that rewards creativity in people-centred design across all disciplines of the College.
The 2021 winners were announced in an online ceremony on Friday 2 July 2021. Read more about our Awards winners below.
Previous Award Winners
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- Awards 2021 winning projects and runners up
- Awards 2020 winning projects and shortlist
- Awards 2018 and winning projects
- Awards 2017 and winning projects
- Awards 2016 and winning projects
- Awards 2015 and winning projects
- Awards 2014 and winning projects
- Awards 2013 and winning projects
- Awards 2012 and winning projects
- Awards 2011 and winning projects
- Awards 2010 and winning projects
- Awards 2009 and winning projects
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Design for our Future Selves Awards
The Design for our Future Selves Awards scheme ran at the Royal College of Art from 2000 to 2008. It aimed to encourage inclusive design projects from graduating RCA students that were responsive to human behaviour and based on real insight into social need. The awards grew out of the DesignAge Competition, which ran from 1992 to 1999, addressing the needs and aspirations of older people.
- Awards 2008 and winning projects
- Awards 2007 and winning projects