The Midland Autelier, Western Australian’s hub for creativity and design innovation presents Awkward Beauty, an interdisciplinary collaboration between jewellery designer Helen Britton, garment designer Justine McKnight and photographer Michelle Taylor.

Traditional methods of exhibiting jewellery are questioned in ‘Ez Mi!’ the latest exhibition to open at the Faur Zsófi – Ráday Galéria. Featuring the work of three of Hungary’s best contemporary jewellery designers alongside photography by Kudász Gábor Arion, the interactive installation is a must see during Budapest Design Week!

With a splatter of blue paint, the Independent fashion magazine LACK opened its interactive pop-up exhibition at the Erlin Gallery.

This year the London Design Festival is host to ‘Unwrapped: Contemporary Finnish Design and Photography Exhibition’ at London’s Rag Factory. Designer and photographer Jani Kaila has selected 19 leading Finnish designers from a variety of fields, ranging from industrial design, furniture, lighting to even shoes, to bring a cutting edge showcase to the UK.

This September, six of Japan’s most avant-garde, up-and-coming creatives will take centre stage at Talent à la Carte, Maison&Objet’s showcase for new talent.

Since meeting in 2008, Hannah Hedman and Sanna Lindberg, jewellery designer and photographer, have worked on a number of collections together and are showcasing four of their collaborations in Still-Jewellery at Silke & the Gallery in Antwerp.

In June 2011 a showcase of seven young designers and artists’ work will be shown at Arnhem Mode Biennale. The Sugar House has been put together by Antwerp store ra, who want to create a sense of joy and catastrophe with seven designers all coming together to exhibit in a three-storey house.

If you are lucky enough to be in in New York before the 15th May, don’t miss the truly inspiring exhibition on at the Museum of Art and Design, The Global Africa Project. If you can’t head out to the Big Apple, then check out their website for comprehensive images and information.

During the Pitti fashion fairs in Florence, January 11-14 2011, Polimoda is staging a video-photography exhibition of future fashion concepts by students in the Fashion Design and Fashion Marketing departments.

Alter Nature is a series of four exhibitions, a symposium and other events, held in Hasselt Belgium on the theme of bioscience and art. Working across galleries Z33 and CIAP, plus the Hasselt Fashion Museum.

The exhibition shows that although mankind has been changing nature for its own ends since the dawn of time, in the last decade developments in bioscience and biotechnology have given this evolution new momentum. Z33 hosts two of the exhibitions, starting with Alter Nature: We Can, curated by Karen Verschooren which looks the manipulation of fauna and flora in nature through the work of over twenty international artists.