ARTS THREAD and Designersblock teamed up once again to bring you some of the best and brightest emerging design talents, this time at Interiors UK, Birmingham. From our Call for Entries, we selected six unique creatives from the realms of illustration, ceramics, product design and textiles.

‘Slip below’, the title of RMIT’s Ceramics Graduate Exhibition is a play on words: “To slip down might have a hint of slapstick about it, and even a fear of hurting oneself in the process, however in all seriousness this invitation is merely encouraging you to slip down to the ceramics studio in the basement of building 4 at RMIT university.”

While some of you might have headed to the high street for your Christmas shopping last weekend, ARTS THREAD were scouting for one-of-a-kind handmade gifts at Cockpit Arts’ Christmas Open Studios. Now in it’s 25th year, the award winning Social Enterprise and ‘creative business incubator’ for designer makers opened it’s Holborn studio doors to the public for three days, and will be doing the same at the Deptford studios this weekend.

PSFK’s Top Ten Creatives of the Week chosen from ARTS THREAD’s graduate portfolios: 10 new talents from the world of ceramics, jewellery and glass. Read more

Surface Designer and Illustrator Helen Stevens, founder of design brand SurfacePhilia recently launched her gorgeous ‘Navajo’ wallpaper range at Tent London. The range holds five distinctive designs which draw inspiration from American bird types, feathers and the patterns found within Native-American jewellery. ARTS THREAD caught up with Helen to talk about her career, university days and future plans for SurfacePhilia.

Why are things the way they are? This is the question which the twelve participating creatives tackled when producing their new work for ‘Objects Rescoped’ at the Galerie van de Water during this year’s Dutch Design Week. The meanings behind ordinary objects were challenged by the designers, making us re-think and re-appreciate things around us.

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.

Ceramic highlights at Origin this year ranged from uncanny realism to shameless fantasy.

Mint explores the unconventional in this year’s LDF, featuring the work of 60 designers from around the world, with an emphasis on the use of materials to produce the least likely of products and finishes. Open until Friday September 30th, look out for everything from seating, tables and lighting to jewellery, ceramics and much more.

ARTS THREAD are at Designersblock in the Farmiloe Building, Clerkenwell offering valuable portfolio advice and guiding visitors to the incredible work of 10 fresh talents found on the ARTS THREAD Portfolio site. We’ll be here until Sunday so make sure you pop in to say ‘Hi’!