Over at Ventura Lambrate, Aarhus School of Architecture from Denmark presents the work of 17 students as part of its Studio MAD – Making Architectural Design.

A new title from gestalten, Brand Spaces explores the latest trends in communicating brand concepts through retail design. A must for all students and practitioners of both interior architecture and design, as well as advertising, graphic design and all forms of design marketing and promotion.

At last weekend’s Maison&Objet ARTS THREAD took a look at some exciting new prototype designs financed by VIA Creation.

During the recent Design Miami/ held in December, Fabrica designers Charlotte Juillard and David Raffoul created furniture system Table in Wonderland for the revamped United Colors of Benetton Miami flagship store.

Material Matters: New Materials in Design from black dog publishing is an excellent up-to-date review of the materials available to today’s designer. Perfect for both the experienced and student designer, the range of materials referenced is divided by chemical composition – Metals, Glasses, Ceramics, Polymers, Composites and Material Futures.

At Dutch Design Week Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and the Piet Zwart Institute presented graduation work by Spatial Design BA students and Interior Architecture & Retail Design Masters.

An international selection of graduates from Kingston University’s MA Design courses Product+Space and Health & Wellbeing presented their work at Designersblock as part of London Design Festival.

Until the 12 August 2012 the V&A plays host to a vast collection of innovative and inspiring post-war British design works including buildings, objects, images and ideas – all produced by designers and artists born, trained or based in Britain.

One day left to see FABRIKAAT with its theme of the (re)emerging role of the domestic garden, presented by students from the Master of Interior Architecture and Retail Design (MIARD) programme of Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam University.

ARTS THREAD visits the HKU Utrecht exhibition at Ventura Lambrate in Milan to view the work of some very different 2011 graduates.