LUCY MUSGRAVE APPOINTED A ROYAL DESIGNER FOR INDUSTRY

November 2024

Publica’s Founding Director Lucy Musgrave has been appointed a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) by the Royal Society of Arts, at the 2024 RDI Address.  

“I want to extend an enormous thank you to the RSA for recognising urban design with civic amenity at its heart. Good urban design requires many hands, disciplines and collaboration to address the varied perspectives on any urban neighbourhood. This is done at Publica by our outstanding team.  

We research character: the spatial, social, cultural, environmental, economic and historic specificity of place. Our built work, based on this methodology, has resulted in the complete redesign of some significant streets and spaces in central London and wider.  

All our work represents long-termism, inclusive, generous, sustainable public realm that celebrates civic dignity and enhances everyday life. Thank you for celebrating this.” - Lucy Musgrave OBE RDI.  

Lucy was appointed alongside Oscar-winning film production designer, Shona Heath and landscape designer, Tom Stuart-Smith, pictured above. 

“This year’s awards demonstrate the important role of design in shaping the world around us. With the new RDIs work spanning graphic, regenerative, set and costume, urban, film, landscape and carnival design, we are reminded that the practice underpins every interaction we have with the human-made world.” - Charlie Paton RDI, Master of the Faculty at The Association of Royal Designers for Industry. 

The title is awarded annually by the RSA to designers of all disciplines who have achieved ‘sustained design excellence, work of aesthetic value and significant benefit to society.’ It is the highest accolade for designers in the UK.  

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LUCY MUSGRAVE APPOINTED A ROYAL DESIGNER FOR INDUSTRY

November 2024

Lucy was appointed alongside Oscar-winning film production designer, Shona Heath and landscape designer, Tom Stuart-Smith, pictured above. 

“This year’s awards demonstrate the important role of design in shaping the world around us. With the new RDIs work spanning graphic, regenerative, set and costume, urban, film, landscape and carnival design, we are reminded that the practice underpins every interaction we have with the human-made world.” - Charlie Paton RDI, Master of the Faculty at The Association of Royal Designers for Industry. 

The title is awarded annually by the RSA to designers of all disciplines who have achieved ‘sustained design excellence, work of aesthetic value and significant benefit to society.’ It is the highest accolade for designers in the UK.