Art & Design Short Courses
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Art & Design short courses take place throughout the year delivered live online and on campus in subjects including curating, contemporary art, graphic design and portfolio development.
Contemporary Art Summer School
21 July – 8 August 2025 | Apply to Contemporary Art Summer School
“This course offers the unique opportunity to look at your practice differently. I want people to walk away with a new joy in their practice and a different way of looking at what they have been working on so far.”
Dr Despina Zacharopoulou, Short Course Leader
The Graphic Novel: Visual Storytelling
30 June, 3, 7, 10, 14, 17, 21 & 24 July 2025 | Book The Graphic Novel
“How we start a story can prove difficult but to make this possible we are offering you a starting point. Composition, tone, colour, pacing and tempo are the things we have to engage with.”
Professor Andrzej Klimowski, Short Course Leader
Curating Contemporary Art and Design
7–18 July 2025 | Apply to Curating Contemporary Art and Design
“We provide a highly interactive environment in which participants develop their own curatorial practices and critical perspectives while building new networks and working collaboratively together.”
Elizabeth Del Prete, Short Course Convenor
Architecture Summer School (on campus)
14–18 July 2025 | Apply to Architecture Summer School
"An intense and immersive architecture, art and design summer school focusing on observation, developing key skills and offering design studio experience, lectures and visits."
Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri, Short Course Leaders
RCA-Imperial Design for Global Challenges Summer School
31 July—8 August 2025 | Register interest for our RCA x Imperial Summer School
"The Imperial-RCA Global Challenges Course is a truly engaging and dynamic experience, the insightful academic environment and the exposure to international perspectives are unparalleled. The teams from both Imperial College and RCA are amazing and well co-ordinated, they were cooperative and very supportive."
Sandy Gu, Education Director, Global University Online China
Art and Design Portfolio Development
Future dates to be announced | Register your interest for Art & Design Portfolio
“The portfolio as a practice is inherently multidisciplinary. As a self-authored publication, a portfolio translates a body of work through thoughtful art direction, critical writing and content curation.”
Richard Nash, Short Course Leader
Editorial Design
Waiting list for 2026 now open
“Learn the craft and art of editorial design, which is defined as the presentation of information (text and image) in a coherent, relevant and innovative manner, allowing the reader access to subject matter of all kinds and on various platforms."
Adrian Shaughnessy and Astrid Stavro, Short Course Leaders
Typography
Waiting list for 2026 now open
“Typography is part science and part art. This course aims to acquaint you with the core principles of typography (the science) and inspire you to develop your powers of typographic expression (the art).”
Adrian Shaughnessy, Short Course Leader
Art & Design Short Courses at the RCA
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Get in touch with us if you'd like to find out more about this or any of our other short courses.
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