He went on to find fame at the Royal College of Art in London in the 1960s.

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Developed by Hannes Harms, a design engineering student at the Royal College of Art in London, these little markers would allow consumers to trace the entire supply chain behind every item in their cupboard, while feeding valuable nutritional information to dieters or people with particularly dangerous food allergies.

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The same steely fortitude that helped propel her from a humble childhood in the seaside town of Margate to the Maidstone College of Art, and later to London's prestigious Royal College of Art, has emboldened her work with a disarming honesty and made her one of the most prominent artists of her generation.

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Dr. Manel Torres, a former student of the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London, is slowly getting us there.

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That is what Wendy Dagworthy, now at the Royal College of Art but once Stella McCartney's teacher at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, thinks.

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He taught at London's Courtauld Institute and Royal College of Art, as well as at Cambridge University.

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