The winners of the 28th International Festival of Fashion & Photography Hyéres have been announced!

Netherlands-based designer Meta Menkveld graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague last summer. Her graduate project, Everything is Corn, raised awareness of the hidden amount of corn people consume and was made entirely from corn-based materials including cornflour, corn kernels. ARTS THREAD ask Meta a few questions to find out more about the project.

No graphic design student or graduate should be without a copy of Fully Booked: Ink on Paper, published by gestalten. In our digital age, book and other print publications have the freedom to move away from their traditional role, moving into an era that promises to be the most exciting in print’s history.

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.

The winning projects from the international design contest JTI Clean City Lab, created in in collaboration with Future Concept Lab, were announced and put on display earlier this month at La Triennale in Milan.

The Royal Academy of Art The Hague brought a performance element to Ventura Lambrate in Milan with its Live Factory Make My Day – a celebration of work-in-progress from students and recent graduates. ARTS THREAD went along to see.

Twelve graduates from the Institute for Fashion Design Basel presented their final collections in a catwalk show on March 23. ARTS THREAD takes a look at their work:

The School of Art and Design, Kassel in Germany came to Milan with a second edition of their collection of product and furniture design created by recent graduates of the school.

The ten fashion designers shortlisted to take part in the 28th International Festival of Fashion & Photography Hyéres will present their designs in a runway show set to be broadcast across France on Saturday 27 April.

As part of Ventura Lambrate, the postgraduate Scuola Politecnica di Design SPD presented Call to Action! – great projects and an excellent example of exhibition display.