Dezeen promotion: Ventura Projects is looking for designers to exhibit in the second edition of Ventura Future, a showcase of designers tackling world issues, at next year's Milan design week. More
Dezeen promotion: huge wooden puppets and a retro American diner are among the exhibitions featuring in this year's edition of Ventura Centrale. More
Dezeen promotion: Ventura Projects has revealed details of its inaugural Ventura Future exhibition, which will showcase work by emerging designers to tackle important world issues. More
Ventura Lambrate, one of the main showcases during Milan's annual design week, has been permanently cancelled – as a result of rising rents in the area. More
A supermarket filled with waste products and an overview of Norway's hottest young designers are among design reporter Alice Morby's pick of the best exhibitions at the Ventura Lambrate district during Milan design week last month. More
Dezeen promotion: the organisers of the Ventura Lambrate exhibition district during Milan design week have announced plans for an extra venue next year – a series of abandoned warehouses at Milan Central Station. More
Dezeen promotion: a rug patterned like mould and calligraphy created from heartbeats were among projects by Dutch designers showcased for the launch of Ventura Projects at New York's design week (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen promotion: Pieke Bergmans and Studio Mieke Meijer are among the designers set to exhibit at Ventura Lambrate during this year's Milan design week (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen promotion: Ventura Lambrate has revealed the participants who will exhibit under one of its themes, Thinking Traditions and Academies, for its event during Milan design week from 12 to 17 April 2016 (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen Wire: design show Biennale Interieur 2012 will take place in Kortrijk, Belgium, from 20 to 28 October 2012 and Dutch company Organisation in Design is calling for entries to Ventura Interieur, a city-wide satellite program of shows in collaboration with the biennale. More
Dutch designer Maarten Baas has created a timer in collaboration with with kinetic objects company Laikingland that's specifically designed not to be accurate. More
Dutch design studio HEYHEYHEY assembled an assortment of objects including toothbrushes, books, marbles, matches and a toy train inside two suitcases to build a chain-reaction machine that signs and stamps a postcard. More
Hackney designer Philippe Malouin worked with traditional craftsmen from Beirut to create a series of bowls and plinths by shaping wooden blocks made of many smaller, tessellating batons. More
Milan 2012: Bangkok designers THINKK studio have created a lamp that slots together like a children's toy. More
Milan 2012: the 400 wooden slats of this table top by Mauricio Affonso allow it to expand, contract and fan out into a full circle. More
Milan 2012: these knobbly seats by Belgian designer Maarten De Ceulaer are on show at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan this week. More
Milan 2012: designer Werner Aisslinger of Berlin and Singapore will present a chair growing inside a greenhouse at Ventura Lambrate in Milan this week. More
This school table by industrial design students graduate Arthur Brutter and professor Ido Bruno is specifically designed to form a safe shelter for pupils during earthquakes. More
Dezeen promotion: an exhibition of products for the garden designed by students from Rotterdam's Piet Zwart Institute will take place at the Ventura Lambrate design district in Milan later this month. More
Milan 2012: Dezeen is proud to be online media partner for Ventura Lambrate design district in Milan again this year and we've teamed up with initiators Organisation in Design to provide this downloadable map and guide to the area. More