Latest Student & Graduate shows on our calendar. Make sure your show is on it! This month is traditionally quiet before the new term starts. Look out for Design School Kolding and the Royal Danish Design School fashion show at Copenhagen Fashion Week this month.
Image credits: The new borrowed, Copenhagen Fashion Week
If your show isn't in our calendar below please contact us
SEPTMEBR 2015
DESIGNERSBLOCK X ARTS THREAD @LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 15 September 24-27 2015
Over 40 talented new creatives to show at Designersblock Edition 18 which takes place September 24-27 2015 at Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf as part of London Design Festival’s new Bankside Design District. More information
Sustain RCA Show @ Royal College of Art, London September 18 - October 02 2015
A barometer of how some of the greatest creative minds at the RCA are tackling some of biggest social and environmental issues. This year, topics such as renewable, de-centralised energy and responses to London's housing inequality, lack of connection with nature and the circular economy are most prominent. More information
AUGUST 2015
Fashion Graduate Exhibition, Dome of Visions, Copenhagen, August 08 15.00-18.00
Newly graduated designers from the Fashion Design Academy presents their graduation projects. More information
The new borrowed, Copenhagen Fashion Week, August 05 at 15.00
Design School Kolding and the Royal Danish Design School bachelors invite you to see their joint fashion show at the Copenhagen Fashion Week. More information
JULY 2015
KABK The Hague Graduation Festival 2015 July 03-09 2015
Bachelor, master and postgraduate students from Artistic Research, ArtScience, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Interactive Media Design (I/M/D), Interior Architecture (INSIDE), Interior Architecture & Furniture Design, Photography, Textile & Fashion and TypeMedia will present their graduation projects. More Information
Show RCA 2015 June 25- July 05 2015
The annual graduate shows will take place simultaneously across the College’s two campuses in Battersea and Kensington. Show RCA offers visitors a unique opportunity to experience the very best of emerging contemporary art and design practice. More information
JUNE 2015
Show RCA 2015 June 25- July 05 2015
The annual graduate shows will take place simultaneously across the College’s two campuses in Battersea and Kensington. Show RCA offers visitors a unique opportunity to experience the very best of emerging contemporary art and design practice. More information
New Designers Part 1 @ Islington Business Centre, London, June 24-27 2015
ARTS THREAD is a partner with New Designers, see ARTS THREAD New Designers page of exhibiting graduates.
NAFA Degree Show June 12-15 2015
The School of Art & Design features works created by our graduating degree students from the programmes of Fine Art, 3D Design, Fashion Studies, and Design & Media. More information
Design School Kolding June 09- August 09 2015
The beautiful Castle Museum Koldinghus frames the graduation projects by the new Design School Kolding designers. More information
HDK, University of Gothenburg June 06-20
Graduation show for Bachelor students from Iron & Steel / Public Space, Wood Oriented Furniture Design and Textile-Garment-Design, and also Master students from Applied Art and Design. More information
MAY 2015
LASALLE SUMMER SHOW 15
LASALLE College of the Arts May 22 -June 02 2015
See the works of students from Design, Fine Arts, Film, Media Arts, Dance, Music, Theatre, Art Therapy, and Arts Management, More Information
KONSTFACK SUMMER SHOW 15
Konstfack Graduate exhibition in Stockholm across the whole school May 13-24 2015
More Information
NYCXDESIGN
ARTS THREAD is a media partner with NYCXDESIGN and we will be covering all the school shows.
Pratt Shows 2015 ongoing through June 12, 2015
Pratt Design 2015 May 11-14, 2014
Pratt Fashion Show 2015 May 07 18.00-22.00
Pratt Institute's annual series of events and exhibitions that features the year’s boldest ideas and best work in fine arts, fashion, film/video, photography, design, and more.
Pratt Design is the newly founded School of Design’s annual exhibition of work by exceptional seniors and postgraduates that provides an opportunity to see a diverse range of what’s next in:
Parsons Festival 2015 May 07-22 2015
The festival showcases the creative and intellectual achievements of Parsons' graduating students—a diverse and exciting group of artists, designers, architects, photographers, filmmakers, technologists, scholars, and strategists.
FIT Art and Design Graduating Student Exhibition May 08-19 2015
Rhodes Island School of Design Fashion Show 2015 May 09 14.00 and 19.00
Each spring, after months of conceptual development, experimentation and meticulous construction, Apparel Design majors showcase their one-of-a-kind creations at a popular runway show called Collection.
Rhodes Island School of Design Summer Show 2015 ongoing through May 2015
ICFF Schools Shows May 16-19 2015
New York School of Interior Design / University of Cincinnati / Rhode Island School of Design / School of Design, Syracuse University / University of Iowa / Virginia Tech, School of Architecture + Design CAUS / San Diego State University / Florida State University / University of Oregon /
Wanted Design Design School Workshop May 14-18 2015
For the second year running, our friends at Core77 have partnered with WantedDesign to present the annual Design Schools Workshop.
Over the course of four days, students from CADI Mexico City, Art Center College for Design, Pasadena and Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) will work in collaboration to create objects that explore and examine the concept of a product’s lifecycle.
APRIL 2015
MILAN DESIGN WEEK
For the third year running, ARTS THREAD members will be showing in a dedicated section of DESIGNERSBLOCK. This year the exhibition will be at Ex-Ansaldo, a former industrial space on via Tortona, the heart of Milan Design Week.
See Q&As with ARTS THREAD members showing at Designersblock this April.
School Exhibitions - check out our previews on the many school exhibitions running during Milan Design Week.
MARCH 2015
DESIGNMARCH
School, Student & graduate exhibitions around the city of Reykjavík March 12-15 2015
ARTS THREAD is a Media Partner to DesignMarch
SINGAPLURAL
School Installations @SingaPlural Match 10 - 15 2015
Installations include: LASALLE College of the Arts / Singapore Polytechnic / Raffles Design Institute / Republic Polytechnic
ARTS THREAD is a Media Partner to SingaPlural
See ARTS THREAD SingaPlural Previews on our Blog
DESIGN DAYS DUBAI
School, Student & graduate exhibitions @Design Days Dubai March 16-20 2015
ARTS THREAD is a Media Partner to Design Days Dubai
FEBRUARY 2015
DESIGN INDABA
30 Emerging Creatives @Design Indaba Expo February 27 - March 01 2015
ARTS THREAD is a Media Partner to Design Indaba
See ARTS THREAD Previews Emerging Creatives 15 on our Blog.
LONDON COLLEGE OF FASHION MA EXHIBITION
London College of Fashion MA exhibition @Victoria House Basement, WC1B 4DA February 18-22 2015
Presenting work from LCF’s Graduate School courses in fashion film, artefact, accessories, photography and garments. More information
ROYAL COLLGE OF ART WORK-IN-PROGRESS
School of Communication Work-In-Progress Show @Kensington Campus February 05-08 2015
Students from Animation, Information Experience Design and Visual Communication present their work-in-progress. More information
STOCKHOLM DESIGN WEEK + STOCKHOLM FURNITURE FAIR
Student & graduate exhibitions around the city February 02-08 2015
Stockholm Furniture Fair February 03-08 2015
Exhibitions by 30 schools from 13 countries in the Greenhouse event space.
See ARTS THREAD Previews on our Blog.
Aalto University, School of Art and Design / Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Faculty of Design / Art Future Design School / Beckmans Designhögskola / Capellagården/ Carl Malmsten Furniture Studies / Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi - Möbeldesign KADK / Folkuniversitetets Hantverkscentrum / Folkuniversitetets Art College / Grebbestads Folkhögskola / Handarbetets Vänner / HDK Högskolan för Design & Konsthantverk / HDK Steneby, Göteborgs Universitet / KHiB, Kunst- og designhøgskolen i Bergen / Konstfack - Inredningsarkitektur & Möbelformgivning / Konstfack Textil / Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, KHiO / Linköpings Universitet - Slöjd, hantverk och formgivning / Linnéuniversitetet design / Lund School of Architecture / Lund School of Industrial design / Novia / Nyckelviksskolan / Nässjöakademin / Steneby / Tartu Art College/Textile + Furniture / Textilhögskolan i Borås / Träakademien / Turku University of Applied Sciences / VIA University College - Teko Design + Business
JANUARY 2015
PASSAGEN, INTERIOR WEEK COLOGNE +IMM
Student & graduate exhibitions around the city January 19-25 2015
The Metamorphosis of the Campfire and Design n+1 by students of the Köln International School of Design (KISD) More information
Interior Scholarship - 4 female students have received the Sto Foundation’s 2014 AIT Interior Scholarship. Winners Nadine Kesting Jiménez, Amélie Freyche Leblanc, Martina Pirklbauer and Yana Zschiedrich are showing their work in a self-designed exhibition space at the AIT- ArchitekturSalon in Cologne. More information
Bildungswerkstatt by Cologne University of Applied Sciences is an interdisciplinary project, students and faculty of the departments of applied social sciences and architecture have deliberately broken with standard spatial concepts in academia and have instead focused on what makes for a stimulating learning environment. More information
Imm Cologne Schools' section - includes Köln International School of Design (KISD) / Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle. More information
TORONTO DESIGN OFFSITE FESTIVAL
Student & graduate exhibitions around the city January 19-25 2015
1/16 shows the work of16 individual furniture designers by graduating class of Sheridan College’s Furniture Craft and Design program. More information
Wintersphere by Toronto School of Art transforms the Junction Train Platform into an atmospheric site of interactive sculpture of unconventional material, digital installation, and seasonal treats. More Information
Connecting Divided Places by School of Design, George Brown College will showcase intelligent and balanced solutions that foster prosperous, liveable, and resilient city-regions of the future. More information
Digital Tools Prototypes by Ryerson University, Department of Architectural Science shows a display of prototype interactive installations has become an annual tradition in the Department of Architectural Science. More Information
InProcess is an open house for OCADU’s Environmental and Industrial Design student workspace. Showcasing the design process behind students’ thesis projects, get a look at the messy iterations that design thinking talks about but never shows. More Information
Naturally Artificial by Ryerson School of Interior Design, Faculty of Communication and Design, is an installation made entirely from recyclable plastic materials to showcase the widespread reliance on plastic materials. More information
Tables, Chairs and Other Unrelated Objects by students within the furniture program at OCAD University explores and develop our thinking around the role of furniture – as a medium for personal expression. More information
ROYAL COLLGE OF ART WORK-IN-PROGRESS
School of Fine Art Work-In-Progress Show @Batttersea Campus January 17-18 2015
The WIP (Work-in-progress) Shows provide an opportunity for first-year students at the Royal College of Art to show their work at the start of their second term. More information
School of Materials Work-In-Progress Show @Kensington Campus January 20-23 2015
Students from the programmes of Ceramics & Glass, Fashion Menswear, Fashion Womenswear, Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery, and Textiles exhibit their work in progress. More information
School of Design Work-In-Progress Show @Kensington Campus January 26-30 2015
Students from the programmes of Design Interactions, Design Products, Global Innovation Design, Innovation Design Engineering, Service Design and Vehicle Design exhibit their work in progress. More information
DECEMBER 2014
MONASH GRADUATE SHOWS
Monash University Art Design & Architecture MADA @MADA November 22 - December 05 2014
MADA's end of year show is an opportunity to witness the results of emerging artists, designers and architects. This is an opportunity for industry professionals, future students, educators and the general public to see our graduating students’ work. More information
RMIT GRADUATE SHOWS
See the whole programme of RMIT Art, Design and Media Graduate Exhibitions @ Various venues around Melbourne November 01 - December 11 2014
Individual exhibitions of work from architecture, media, animation, fine art, product design, interior design, industrial design fashion design +++. More information
2ND ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENNIAL
Academy Program @University campuses & Antrepo No.7, November 01 - December 14 2014
72 projects including workshops, exhibitions and panels organised by over 33 universities from Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Europe & the United States to reveal different aspects of the biennial theme. More information
NOVEMBER 2014
MONASH GRADUATE SHOWS
Monash University Art Design & Architecture MADA @MADA November 22 - December 05 2014
MADA's end of year show is an opportunity to witness the results of emerging artists, designers and architects. This is an opportunity for industry professionals, future students, educators and the general public to see our graduating students’ work. More information
RMIT GRADUATE SHOWS
See the whole programme of RMIT Art, Design and Media Graduate Exhibitions @ Various venues around Melbourne November 01 - December 11 2014
Individual exhibitions of work from architecture, media, animation, fine art, product design, interior design, industrial design fashion design +++. More information
2ND ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENNIAL
Academy Program @University campuses & Antrepo No.7, November 01 - December 14 2014
72 projects including workshops, exhibitions and panels organised by over 33 universities from Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Europe & the United States to reveal different aspects of the biennial theme. More information
TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK
Schools Exhibition for Asia Awards @Meiji Jingu Gaien Mae, Tokyo October 25 -November 03 2014
Under this year's theme My Avant-Garde - participating schools shown their work. More information
OCTOBER 2014
TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK
Schools Exhibition for Asia Awards @Meiji Jingu Gaien Mae, Tokyo October 25 -November 03 2014
Under this year's theme My Avant-Garde - participating schools shown their work. More information
Young Creator Exhibition @Meiji Jingu Gaien Mae, Tokyo October 25 -November 03 2014
Under this year's theme My Avant-Garde - 37 participating young designers shown their work. More information
DUTCH DESIGN WEEK
Graduation 2014 @Design Academy Eindhoven October 18-26 2014
155 graduates present 171 projects in this year's DAE graduation show that takes place during Dutch Design Week. More information
Hier is Utrecht by HKU Utrecht @Design Perron October 18-26 2014
A divers collection of designers, all graduated from the HKU in Utrecht. More information
DESIGN WEEK PORTLAND
Open House @Portland State University October 06 2014
Portland State Graphic Design Program at Portland State University Graphic Design play Open House More information
Open House @MFA in Applied Craft & Design October 04-11 2014
MFA in Applied Craft & Design is part of Oregon College of Art & Craft, Pacific Northwest College of Art More information
BUDAPEST DESIGN WEEK
-ART+ by PTE Arts Faculty @Art 9 Gallery October 09-12 2014
The exhibition by students of design graphics takes the region of Pécs as the starting point and attempts to set an example for an out-of-the-box design of today’s control systems, images, package designs and posters. More information
Graduation Projects @Polish Institute October 05-12 2014
40 design graduation projects – an exhibition of the most interesting and recent graphic ideas, objects, participatory and experimental design projects selected by 2+3d polish design magazine,ZamekCieszyn (PL), Typo Magazine (CZ), 1977 Organization (SK) and Plusminus Visual Intellgience (HU). More Information