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The NYIGF kicked the year off with some fresh new innovative kitchenware solutions, eco-friendly toys, vintage type, jewelry, and owls – lot's of owls.

Coinciding with Art Basel Miami, Design Miami offers collectors a highly curated selection of contemporary and vintage industrial design presented by an international roster of galleries.

Navigating Tokyo's annual 6 day design event can leave visitors feeling a little overwhelmed. This year saw an abundance of experimental art pieces and installations, with bright colors and attention-seeking concepts.

Anchored by the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show, DDW is a nine-day event with exhibitions throughout the city divided into four main areas: WitteDame, Strijp, Stadhuisplein and Central Station.

With exhibitions, venue-specific installations, talks, and workshops, the Design Week takes place throughout the city celebrating both Viennese design, and the flourishing scenes of Central and Eastern Europe.

We stopped by Brooklyn-based designer David Weeks' studio where he develops lighting, furniture and toys working with a small team of highly skilled craftsman for short run manufacturing and commissioned pieces.

We'll be adding more highlights from this year's London Design Festival in the next days, check now for coverage from the V&A, the Swedish Ambassador's residence, and This is Not a Pop-Up Shop.

To push the boundaries of what a modern utility bike can be, Oregon Manifest partnered three of the world's top design firms with accomplished custom bike builders: IDEO X Rock Lobster Cycles, Fuseproject X SyCip Design, and Ziba Design X Signal Cycles.

Returning for it's third year, Valencia Disseny Week (VDW) is anchored by the international trade show Feria Habitat with numerous exhibitions, workshops and events taking place throughout the city.

Located in Building Noord at the former-Polaroid plant in Enschede, The Netherlands, the Impossible Factory produces instant integral film for vintage Polaroid cameras.

Brooklyn-based furniture designer and educator Daniel Michalik's work explores the rich potential of cork. To learn more he visited Portugal documenting it's harvesting, multiple manufacturing cycles, and end-use as biofuel creating a closed-loop, virtually waste-free industry.

Featuring everyone from large international design houses to small independent designers, this seasons fair was all about getting business done with a few new products launches.

View the Winners, Runners-Up, and Notable entries from our inaugural Core77 Design Awards, an annual global celebration of excellence, enterprise and intent that revolved around 15 categories of design endeavor.

New York's MoMA presents "Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects" featuring nearly 200 projects ranging from the microscopic to the cosmic that explore design's new terrain: enhancing communication, finding balance between technology and people, and humanizing technological breakthroughs.

Limited only by the structural integrity of gelatine and their imagination, designers battled out the third annual Jell-O Mold Competition with Jell-O dogs, floating dentures, Walt Disney's head, and edible taxidermy in Brooklyn, New York.

Sweating robots, human flesh neo-natal incubators and a happy man who no longer sits down: just some of the spectacles at this year's Royal College of Art Design Interactions graduate show.

Returning to the Bulgarian capital for it's third year, Sofia Design Week, June 10 - 18 was packed with exhibitions, design talks and workshops all over the city showcasing local and international emerging talent.

The Museum of Arts and Design presents "Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities," an exhibition celebrating a resurgence among artists worldwide in constructing small-scale hand built depictions of artificial environments and alternative realities.

NYU's Spring show for the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) featured over 100 awesome mad-science (working) projects. This year saw a noticeable shift towards a wider range of body parts and senses used to interface with their work, and of course some serious Kinect hacking!

We celebrated 16 years of building, making, hacking and general online design madness at the Phaidon Flagship Store in NYC which also hosted a special ICFF edition of our Hand-Eye Supply store.