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!

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.

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.

Laura-Jane Aktinson, 2012 graduate from the Embroidery BA (Hons) course at Manchester School of Art will be joining us at the Magazzini in Milan. A creative hub in Tortona, running April 09-13, the Designersblock & Arts Thread section will feature work from new talents curated from Arts Thread’s creative portfolios.

Reykjavik – DesignMarch starts this Thursday in Reykjavik, the annual design event to show off what’s happening in Iceland. ARTS THREAD takes a peek at some of the highlights.