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.

During Milan Design Week ARTS THREAD came across the lampshade-making workshop of the students from the Institute of Industrial Design, University of Art and Design Basel FHNW.

Milan’s just closing its doors for another year tonight. If you have chance today, take a look at some of the pieces from the Royal College of Art 2012 graduates in an exhibition entitled Work.

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.

The FAI, Fabrica and alterstudio partners present Belvedere, an exhibition of unique objects designed by Fabrica’s latest batch of young designers.

It’s the fourth year that Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (AAAD), Prague comes to Milan. This time the students and graduates were chosen by the art and design curator Tereza Bruthansová and AAAD’s Porcelain and Ceramics Studio head, Maxim Velčovský.

London and Vicenza-based design duo Viviana Fulanetto and Carlo Zambon aka Vión Design are the final creatives to join ARTS THREAD and Designersblock at The Magazzini during Milan Design Week.

HKU, Utrecht School of the Arts comes to Milan with work from its multi-disciplinary HKU Design course for established designers who are forging new connections and exploring new applications. We can’t wait to see the works in person!

For this year’s Milan, Design Academy Eindhoven’s theme is Linking Process, for an exhibition of the work of 60 graduates, focusing on the process of getting to the finished article.

No time to eat during Milan Design Week? Step over to Ventura Lambrate and the students from the Faculty of Design and Arts of the Free University of Bolzano, who will be presenting an apple-focused installation A bite is not enough.