Ten designers from Konstfack will show projects around the theme of Negative Space at New York’s ICFF from 18-21 May 2013. Described as ‘a series of individual explorations of negative space, culminating in an intriguing interplay between form, memory, movement, light and time’, ARTS THREAD takes a preview.

Silesian Design Cluster bring us design from a region that now can export more than the coal it was so famous for, with a network of designers, architects, universities and research centres. Step forward into Milan – La Dolce Silesia.

This April is the sixth time Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) has shown in Milan and this edition promised to be full of the unexpected with live performances showing ‘raw, untreated materials like plaster and textile processed in front of the visitors in a series of extraordinary projects that push the boundaries of manufacturability, defy gravity and redefine the notion of design.’ Read on!

This April Designersblock are at Officine Creative Ansaldo on Via Tortona. ARTS THREAD paid a visit earlier this week to find out more.

Aalto University is at Ventura Lambrate this April with an exhibition entitled Norther, with 26 stimulating student projects showcasing the best of furniture, ceramics and glass, industrial design, textiles and fashion from Finland.

Designersblock & ARTS THREAD are currently at the The Magazzini in Milan’s trendy Tortona district. Walk through a forest of stylised trees created by Lost Heritage festooned with work from new talents plucked from ARTS THREAD’s creative portfolios.

Saran Yenpanya from Bangkok-based design studio 56th Studio will join ARTS THREAD and Designersblock at The Magazzini during Milan Design Week. Read on to find out about the collections the studio will be exhibiting:

Bucks New University graduate Adam Wong will join ARTS THREAD and Designersblock at The Magazzini during Milan Design Week. Read on to find out more about Adam’s aspirations and lessons learned since leaving Bucks New University’s Contemporary Furniture Design BA (Hons) course.

For this year’s Milan, the School of Industrial Design at Lund University explore sustainability in an exhibition entitled From Linear to Cyclic that questions whether we can find good concepts that can help in the transition from today’s relentless drive for greater productivity to a cyclic way of existing on this planet?

If you are feeling a little weary from looking at design at upcoming Milan Design Week, KASK-School of Arts Ghent offer unexpected solace in the form of Milan Benches, as part of Ventura Lambrate.