Designers of the future at RCA work in progress show
Start the new year by looking to the future – check out the work-in-progress of upcoming design talent from the Royal College of Art at the students’ interim show.
![Jessica Meek](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2012/01/Jessica-Meek.jpg)
The mid-year exhibition, of pieces often unfinished until the day it opens includes work from disciplines including textile design, painting, sculpture and jewellery as well as metalwork, and gold and silversmithing.
![Kerry Seaton](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2012/01/Kerry-Seaton.jpg)
Without the pressure of the graduate shows, the exhibition is an chance to see the students’ work at its most experimental and ad hoc.
Sue Bradburn, a spokesperson for RCA, says, ‘It’s a great opportunity to see emerging trends in materials and processes. The students are more playful than for the graduate shows.’
![Laurie Schram](https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/standfirst-designweek-production/uploads/2012/01/Laurie-Schram.jpg)
This year, it isn’t just the work that’s experimental, Bradburn describes areas of the exhibition space as ‘very elaborate’ too.
She says, ‘The jewellery is going to be displayed in a low dark space, like a wooden cave, made up of panels that the students have constructed. Although things can change over a couple of hours.’
The show will run from 12-18 January at the Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, SW7
When is the design products show on from? And will it be open on the weekend?