Interiors UK 2012 showcased the work of this year’s New Design Britain Awards finalists with the winners in each design category being announced on the 23rd of January. Each winner in the four categories (furniture, furnishing accessories, surfaces and fabrics) were awarded a placement within the industry.

Send to Print/ Print to Send at The Aram Gallery gives visitors a glimpse into how 3D printing is revolutionising contemporary design

Following our successful collaboration at the Farmiloe Building during the London Design Festival, ARTS THREAD are once again teaming up with Designersblock to bring you the best emerging graduate and student design work. This time we’re heading up north to Birmingham where we will be taking part in the UK’s interiors trade exhibition Interiors UK – and we’d like you to join us! Visit our Designersblock competition page for further details on how you could be exhibiting your work in front of Britain’s top retailers and buyers.

In the meantime, we preview a selction of talents on show with Designersblock in January in Birmingham.

Five of Europe’s leading designers come together for Grandmateria II at the Gallery Libby Sellers, London. Inspired by the mythological tale of the Philosopher’s stone, the five designers have set out to ‘turn lead into gold’ by taking simple, ordinary materials and transforming them into extraordinary design items.

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.

Transnatural, Amsterdam present ‘Things That Mind Their Own Business’, a 4 month long event featuring exhibitions, workshops and inspiration days. The event aims to explore technical, philosophical and cultural questions such as ‘How can independent machines maintain a mutually beneficial relation with their environment?’ and ‘Could these machines harvest enough energy in their surroundings to also do work for us?’

Showcasing and promoting design in the North of England, Design Event kicks off in two weeks time, running October 14-18 2011. ARTS THREAD previews the highlights.

Contemporary design blog Designeast.eu present a selection of 24 modern design pieces from the realms of product, accessories, lighting and furniture created in the former Eastern Bloc.

Budapest Design Week is in full swing! To mark the beginning of the Hungarian Capital’s 8th annual creative festival, 85 designers from 29 European countries are exhibiting examples of their work at Couleur Locale in the city’s Design Terminal.

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