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.

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.

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.

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.

A workshop in Iceland with designer Brynjar Sigurðarson was the starting point for a series of pieces using bleached whale bone created by Product Design Master students of ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne – now on show at Spazio Orso 16 for Milan Design Week.

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.