Casual Fitness, L’École de design Nantes Atlantique
At Ventura Lambrate in Milan, L’École de design Nantes Atlantique will present Casual Fitness, the result of a four-month project developed by 36 students on the theme of both indoor and outdoor furniture for physical activities and sports at home.
Monde Commun, AM-air, Grégoire Lambert, Esad Reims
Monde Commun is a collective show of eight design schools from all over France and the 42 projects will be shown as part of France Design, curated by VIA and held in the Tortona design district during Milan Design Week.
Snake Eye Vessel, Kristin Ross, BFA 2012; Mira Platform Stiletto & detail, Anna Fulton BFA 2012
Next week sees the Department of Furniture Design, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Milan at Ventura Lambrate with Transformations, projects that rework everyday objects into new innovative pieces.
With a mix of MFA and BFA 2012/13 graduates, the pieces created in Transformations are visually striking and it takes a while to work out what they are made from. ARTS THREAD investigates.
Design Bonanza, Blitz.k11, Shy Bernstein
Following on from last year’s successful visit to Milan, the Industrial Design Department of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem returns to Ventura Lambrate with an exhibition entitled Design Bonanza.
Light S27, Matthias Zänsler
At Ventura Lambrate in Milan, the exhibition GRADUATE12 will showcase a selection of work from alumni and students from the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle. ARTS THREAD previews a few of the projects to be displayed by the German university.
Camilla Barnard, Boombox/ Tools
Designersblock are making their way to MOST at the Museum of Science and Technology for Milan 2012. Joining them are product designers Camilla Barnard and Ashley Temudo, both of whom create wonderful, unique designs.
www, Victor Matic; Zoom, Manuela Dasser
Vertigo is the title of the exhibition to be shown in Milan by the Faculty of Design and Art at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano. The only Italian university at Ventura Lambrate and its first time at the event, the exhibition will showcase 13 student projects displayed on ten wooden ladders over five metres high.
As part of the recent DesignMarch, Spark Design Space in Reykjavík is hosting an exhibition of the Designers and Farmers project initiated by the Iceland Academy of the Arts. It is the first time the whole project has been seen together as a whole and coincides with the publication of a series of beautifully-photographed videos of the people behind the products.
Lo-fi Washer. Lund University
Yesterday Today Tomorrow is the theme of the projects due to be shown with Designersblock at Milan Design Week by Lund University’s School of Industrial Design.
ORDER in CHAOS, Denis Drouet; TellMe, Johanna Larsson
This April at Ventura Lambrata Milan, HDK – School of Design and Crafts, University of Gothenburg presents Play in Progress, projects designed by students on the Child Culture Design MA programme, a unique programme that focuses on children and play – rather than products.
