Arts Thread

ARTS THREAD Partnerships

Image credits: ARTS THREAD partnerships include: Greenpeace x Arts Thread Disrupt Black Friday / Urban Outfitters Make It Design Competitions / Diversity NOW! Competition / United Nations ITC Communication for Development Creatives / Magis at Design Pavilion NYC Design Competition / Levi's Design Competition / Nike Club to Club Design Competition / Student Service Design Awards / BBC Worldwide Creative Challenge / Eastpak Artist Studio Competition /

Arts Thread Competitions offers a vehicle for brands, organizations & events to engage with young creative talent.

From competitions and curation to trends and market research, our database reach allows us to offer the client easy accessible, reliable and fast results.

Who is in our database reach? All creatives – we have a global network of students, graduates and young design professionals from all around the world.

Arts Thread has relationships with over 720 design schools in over 80 countries which gives us access to well over 300,000 students, undergraduates & graduates in all creative disciplines such as fashion, textiles, digital, graphics, illustration, print, interior, product, jewelry, fine art etc.

The Arts Thread digital platform is a fantastic marketing tool for new creatives and design schools and we have formed strong relationships with -

  • Brands & Retailers such as Nike, Urban Outfitters, Hermès, Eastpak, Magis, Pentland Brands, Avery Dennison RBIS, Mactac, Mamas & Papas.

  • Trade Shows and Design Festivals such as NYCxDESIGN, Design Pavilion, Milan Design Week, London Design Festival, Koelnmesse, imm Cologne, FESPA, Première Vision, Who's Next-Paris, Equip'Hotel.

  • Media organisations such as Hearst Corp, BBC Worldwide, WGSN, Coloro, PSFK.

  • Third Sector and Arts & Design Institutions such as Greenpeace, United Nations ITC, All Walks Diversity NOW!, Service Design Fringe Festival, V&A, British Library.

  • Emerging Talent showcases & support organisations such as Graduate Fashion Week, FASHIONCLASH, Craft Council, iD International Emerging Designer Awards


Arts Thread launched its first competition 6 years ago and in that time have helped over 1500 new creatives launch their brands/designs in London/New York/Paris/Milan. Our team of trend specialists, all ex-WGSN select and curate for our clients.

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