Featuring Emily Barker, Dom Coyote, Paper Cinema, Sone Institute, Folk in a Box and others. Produced by Arctic Circle with interventions from Chelsea College of Art MA Curators.

23 Jul - 8 Aug. Simple and practical design has a long tradition - from a pencil, smoke alarm or coat stand to an elegant lamp held together by magnets, the work of a new generation of designers readdresses the ordinary by producing products that are simple, practical and affordable yet visually striking. The digital age has offered new opportunities to designers, and this show highlights the advances brought by Rapid Manufacturing (RM) which allows designers to create functional objects that can be used on a regular basis; everyday items made from the minimum number of parts and pieces as possible. The exhibition features current examples of simple design, alongside some new products and prototypes. They include: Luka Stepan’s elegant single part ball pen; David Sutton’s minimal wallet formed in one piece, with no moving parts; Alex Hulme’s self-assembly torch, Jochem Faudet’s cable organiser and Min-Kyu Choi’s remarkable award winning folding plug. Industrial Facility will be showing their new Lacie bubble bags – protective bags, which look like bubble wrap, but are in fact made from the synthetic rubber, neoprene and a new alarm watch called Analarm. Jon Harrison will be showing a new range of bathroom fittings in brass for Thorsten Van Elten. Combining specially commissioned pieces alongside films and drawings, the exhibition also features a series of events and an enhanced webcast, which will be launched simultaneously.

Falling into the centre of mainstream European fine art photography, Stephen’s work is none-the-less a quintessential account of the world and habitat of the immigrant Irish working class.

William is an artist who is fascinated with the tradition of story-telling and what we can uncover about ourselves by hearing and reacting to these stories. The watercolours are head-and-shoulder portraits that introduce us to the cast of characters of the stories that we are about to hear – great grandfathers, distant uncles and cousins. Created in Indian Ink, the works have a photographic, yet ethereal and visceral, quality that is reminiscent of the faded pocket snapshots that inspired them. In contrast, the woodcut images are driven by narrative, as they playfully recount the stories of his great grandfather’s (the actual egg importer) Polish Jewish family in 1920s Berlin and beyond. Each story unfolds inside a silhouette of a head – a reminder that these are both memories, but also at the same time, a personal part of the artist. These images were deliberately made in woodcut – a style of printmaking synonymous with early illustration and with the darker fairytales such as the Brothers Grimm, where the art of mark making is pronounced and the grain of the wood also becomes involved with its own story to tell.

Inspired by the desire to marry music and visual art, DAYDREAMING W...ITH... JAMES LAVELLE is a unique and visceral new exhibition experience, bringing together some of the most high profile and acclaimed creative names working in music, art, film, fashion and design. Each artist will create a brand new artwork inspired by new music composed for the project by UNKLE. Each track has been assigned to a major contemporary creative, who will in turn respond to the track using his or her own visual language to create a unique experience for the viewer. Working with artists representing a wide range of disciplines, these experiences will be combined under one roof to create the ultimate multi-sensory environment. DAYDREAMING WITH... JAMES LAVELLE is an opportunity for members of both the art and music community of all ages to engage with one another, and with the disciplines that they may not usually be exposed to. For a list of artists, look below!

From the world’s first carbon neutral city to a refrigerator which doubles as an aquarium, this exhibition explores a range of products, concepts and projects that address issues of sustainability in their design.

These paintings are evocative of past epochs and at once serve to remind us of the legends associated with the discovery of beauty in the hills. Painting in the vanitas tradition of the northern renaissance wunderkammers makes us confront the cruel humiliation of modelling many dead animals to amuse the child in us. We are reminded of our own mortality and fragility at other people’s pre-dispositions or butt-ended jokes. Cryptozoology and the study of mystical animals present us with a way of romanticising the world much in the way Goethe and Caspar David Freidriech did. Once, people were certain that the Matterhorn was the highest mountain in the world, and a city of superbeings lived on its summit. The Alps were an unassailable wilderness filled with dragons and bolder throwing giants. Our horizons have certainly shrunk, but this work asks us, could their still be unexplained myths like Boggarts and Giests dwelling in the wildernesses.

Step inside a labyrinth of chambers, designed by acclaimed young architects Carmody Groarke, and experience The Surreal House - its haunted rooms, delirious forms, blasted architecture and cinematic dreamscapes - featuring a host of artists, architects and film makers including Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, René Magritte, Man Ray, Joseph Cornell and Maya Deren through to more contemporary figures, among them; Louise Bourgeois, Rebecca Horn, Edward Kienholz and Rem Koolhaas.

In its second year, Alpha-ville presents a strong curatorial programme focusing on increasing the exposure of quality digital arts within an interdisciplinary context. Under the theme 'Visionary Cities', Alpha-ville 2010 aims to break the boundaries of traditional disciplines, fostering new collaborations that use innovation and creativity to develop unique experiences. Expect two days of groundbreaking live music and visual performances including advanced electronic music, live cinema, interactive media installations, 3D visual performances, a moving image competition and a screening programme.