The winning projects from the international design contest JTI Clean City Lab, created in in collaboration with Future Concept Lab, were announced and put on display earlier this month at La Triennale in Milan.

Ljubljana: You have until March 27 to vote for your favourite bike project in the Trimo Urban Crash competition for students to design a bike base for the Slovenian capital Ljubljana. With 220 entries from 37 countries, the expert jury selected 31 shortlisted designs that are up for public vote. The public vote makes up 20%, the jury 80%. You can vote for up to three designs.

Cape Town: We are looking forward to this year’s line up at the Design Indaba Conference that runs over three days from 27 February to March 01 2013. ARTS THREAD brings you some speaker highlights.

ARTS THREAD’s reporter Yoshie Kawahara went along to see the Young Creator exhibition at this year’s Tokyo Designers Week. In this second installment, we take a look at more of the incredible furniture and architecture designs on show.

Tomorrow, VIA and the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine will open Ma Cantine En Ville, an exhibition that explores and examines street food culture around the world.

For those of you who have been in and around London during the 2012 Olympics, you may have spotted a few unusual installations dotted around the city. These pieces are works created by students from the University of Westminster’s architecture course as part of a program presented by the Greater London Authority and Mayor of London.

BA graduates from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design’s (MOME) Ceramics, Glass and Metal design departments exhibit their best designs at the Klauzál13 Contemporary Art Gallery, Budapest. ARTS THREAD picks out a few of the best pieces from the show.

Designers and Architects from Britain, the Czech Republic and Hungary came together to present their latest projects in the fast-paced Pecha Kucha Night in Budapest’s Szikra. ARTS THREAD were front row for the entire evening and here are a few of the highlights:

The Printa Academy has a reputation for bringing the best international graphic designers and illustrators to Budapest. For this year’s Design Week, Printa exhibited a series of brand-new silkscreen prints created by none other than Rupert Meats of British design label Rude.

Hybrid Art presents Urban Tactics, a graffiti and street art exhibition held in Budapest’s central Erzsébet tér. The project aims to bring street art to the masses and hopes to dispel the general consensus that graffiti is vandalism.