New Opera Hero/ Analema Group

The winners of the third Musion Academy Media Awards were revealed at the Kinetica Art Fair, Britain’s top kinetic art and design fair, earlier this month.

Visual Research, Ava Publishing

Perfect for any design student, Visual Research explains the best ways of undertaking design research before starting any major project.

Lital Gold

ARTS THREAD introduce you to Lital Gold, a Philadelphia-based textile designer and illustrator from Israel.

Kinetica Artfair 2012/ The Daniel Poole Gallery/ Titia Ex

ARTS THREAD were welcomed by an orchestra of whirrs, clunks and bangs as we entered the Kinetica Artfair in the Ambika P3 Gallery, London.

The third edition of Selected, Selected C, takes place March 23-4 in Bilbao and the teaser shows the work of some of the graphic designers who will be at the event. ‘We chose to show the designers’ work in colour, scattered throughout the city and create a musical montage, emphasising the video as an artistic work.’

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Selected C

Sunday night saw the culmination of Student Film Festival London with the Awards given out at London’s Apollo Cinema. We were there to celebrate all the winners and, in particular, the winner of the Animated Short Award, sponsored by ARTS THREAD and Prime Cuts.

New York-based Rod Berg brings us the first of a series of posts on careers advice and interviews with up and coming creatives. Rod is a professional visual arts career coach and also has worked since 2003 as Associate Director of Career Services at Parsons The New School for Design.

Rod recently had the pleasure of teaming up with Frank Espinoza, an amazing conceptual illustrator and artist, with expertise in comics, graphic novels and animation. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Frank is a rising star in the industry and recently completed a wonderful comic strip promo for Rod’s consultancy.

Sam Smith, PSFK Design Creative of the Week

In this week’s edition of PSFK’s series of ‘Creatives of the Week’ chosen from ARTS THREAD’s visual communication graduate portfolios, the spotlight falls on Sam Smith, a 2011 graduate of Winchester School of Art. Read the interview here.

ARTS THREAD will be at Student Film Festival London next Friday 3 February to Sunday 05 at London College of Communication – drop by our stand to say hello! We are alongside our partners Prime Cuts with whom we will also be handing out an award – more on that later! In the meantime, we preview the festival and the work of up and coming international student filmmakers, set designers, animators and more – and highlight the key events that bring together industry experts and young creatives.

Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere; The Room of the Four Mysteries

Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere is a wonderful exhibition created by the combined minds of eight mathematicians and scientists alongside nine artists. The Fondation Cartier also invited ideas from a selection of prestigious scientific institutions such as the European Space Agency (ESA) and Institut Henri Poin- caré (IHP).