Dates: April 17 – September 15 2013
Location: Les Arts Décoratif, 107 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
Winshluss alias Vincent Paronnaud (born 1970) is an atypical artist. Cartoonist, sculptor, artist, musician and filmmaker, he is prolific in his projects and collaborations.

Dates: February 15 – August 18 2013
Location: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Bankplassen 4, Oslo
Since the 1980s, Norwegian video art has gone from being a marginal art form to a dominant discipline. This exhibition presents a selection of Norwegian video works from 1980 to 2010.

Dates: November 29 2012 – January 19 2013
Location: Kemistry Gallery, 43 Charlotte Road, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3PD
Design studio Yokoland are based in Oslo and work across various fields of graphic design, typography and illustration.

Dates: November 18 2012 – February 25 2013
Location: MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York
From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, Tokyo transformed itself from the capital of a war-torn nation into an international center for arts, culture, and commerce, becoming home to some of the most important art being made at the time.

Location: 107 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
Dates: October 10 2012 – March 31 2013
Never before in France had graphic design and music been closer than they were from the early 90s to the early 2000s; Les Arts Décoratifs explores through several hundred flyers, disk jackets and videos.

Location: Z33 Gallery, Zuivelmarkt 33, B-3500 Hasselt, Belgium
Dates: November 17 2012 – February 17 2013
Can you take a photograph without a camera? Can a simple matchbox be considered a collectors item? Questions the young designers at Toegepast 17 at Z33, Belgium aim to answer.

Location: 43-53 Norman Road, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex
Dates: November 24 – December 24 2012
British artists, Russell Baker, Ed Williams and Mark Godwin create their own tribute to the Soviet TASS poster of the 40s and 50s.

Location: Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond Street, London W1A 2AA
Dates: November 02-08 2012
Unfolding Landscape is the first Western exhibition of gradaute work from the Design School, CAFA – the prestigious China Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Location: Spark Design Space, Reykjavik
Dates: October 30 2012 – January 15 2013
An exhibition of poster designs by Goddur, also known as Guðmundur Oddur Magnússon, a professor of graphic design at the Iceland Academy of Arts, is on show at the Spark Design Space in Reykjavik.

Venue: Business Design Centre, 
Islington, 
London, N1 0QH
Dates: part 1: Wednesday 27 June – Saturday 30 June 2012

, part 2: Wednesday 4 July – Saturday 7 July 2012
ARTS THREAD are for the second year hosting New Designers online graduate portfolios.