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This October, Eindhoven presented the 8th edition of Dutch Design Week, the largest design event in the Netherlands. Around 1500 designers from home and abroad showed their work in more than 60 locations all over the city, representing the full array of design disciplines. In typical Dutch style, visitors were given insight into the entire development process from concept to product. Here is a selection of the best work from the Eindhoven Design Academy graduation show, the Designhuis, the former Philips complex Strijp-S, and more.
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Prague Design Days 2009, or Designblok, is the 11th edition of Prague's major annual design event (6-11 Oct.) anchored at the Holesovice area. Spring is this year's theme and demonstrates a sense of revival, new beauty and new life. Join our tour along the main locations at the Designblok Superstudios Classic 7 and A7, the DOX Center for Contemporary Art and the Czech Centre Prague.
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Over the past few years, the London Design Festival has successfully put itself on the map of international annual design events. This year, Earl's Court housed Designersblock in addition to the annual 100% Design tradeshow. On the east side of the city, Tent London hosted a digital event for the first time this year, while Tom Dixon curated events at The Dock, a new site on London's west side that housed a great number of pop-up stores and new work from both established and emerging designers.
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Returning for their second year, gadget blog Gizmodo presented over 60 devices in New York including a collection of vintage electronics, a giant 3D Etch-a-Sketch, a live band ArcAttack performing with home-made tesla coils, many hands-on interactive demos and the crowd favorite - an automatic pancake making machine.
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The Eurobike Show 2009 is one of the world's leading tradeshows for the bike business. More than thousand exhibitors from 42 countries showcased their latest products. This year's hot item is all about electric bicycles, or e-bikes, accompanied by lightweight parts, more comfort, biking fashion, and colorful accessories to pimp your bike.
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The inaugural Maker Faire Africa is a gathering of inventors and entrepreneurs from around the globe. One of the main purposes was to showcase African ingenuity to world. Taking place in Accra, Ghana, Maker Faire Africa had local artisans as well as Makers from as far as Liberia, Malawi and Uganda.
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The New York International Gift Fair is "the premier gift and home accessories market in the U.S.", with 2,900 exhibitors and 30,000 buyers traipsing through the Javits Center to see the latest and greatest. Core77 took a look in search of design-y tabletop objects, housewares, and accessories.
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The Sydney Design Festival is in its 13th year. This international design festival is centered around the Powerhouse Museum, but there are events and offsite-exhibitions through out the city, including the Workshopped '09 exhibition, Launch Pad, and F!NK: Fostering Design.
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This year, Istanbul Design Weekend took place between 18-21 June 2009 with the theme of "Mediterranean Design between Present and Future". The four day event aimed to offer two core groups of activities linked by the theme of Mediterranean design.
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"Bauhaus City, get on site!" says the international summer school organized by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation that celebrates its 90th birthday this year. Creative youngsters from all over the world have been invited to get in-depth with the famous Bauhaus' masters and buildings on location. After an intensive week of workshops and lectures the participants present and perform their stories and designs for the future of Bauhaus City.
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Bread & Butter Berlin (BBB) takes place at the historical Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, a special venue for the international fashion scene to meet up and showcase their latest collections. From hangars full of fashion we captured highlights such as G-Star's Fashion Show, Italian craftsmen designing jeans at the LABORATORIO, and live events at the Luna Park.
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NeoCon happens every year at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, one of the world's largest indoor commercial spaces. In addition to the showroom mainstays like Herman Miller, Knoll, Bernhardt, and Steelcase, two floors of temporary exhibition space are filled out with the latest in products for the interior contract industry. This year, we also visited four offsite events: Making Modern at The School of the Art Institute, The Promise of this Moment, Object Society, and the annual Guerrilla Truck Show.
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The MD&M East expo (Medical Design and Manufacturing) is an annual exhibition of medical devices and product manufacturers, and is the world's second largest medical OEM event (next to MD&M West). MD&M runs concurrently with ATX (the automation technology expo), which features the latest in automated manufacturing technologies.
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New York Design Week revolves around the annual presentation of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Javits Center in New York City, accompanied by many satellite shows and parties throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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Hailed as one of the largest design events in the world, Milan Design Week has many growing clusters. The Fairgrounds are full of business, while the streets of the Zona Tortona and beyond are bustling with clanking glasses, great Italian food, and a younger scene of artists and designers alike. The event consists of mainly industrial design, but this year we saw sculpture, art performances, environmentally concerned discourse, and music.
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The International Home and Housewares Show happens annually at the McCormick Center in Chicago, IL, showcasing thousands of products from domestic and international vendors in the categories of clean + contain; dine + design; and wired + well.
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What a springtime! The Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Pictoplasma are hosting this year's PICTOPIA, a unique show on character arts and design. For six weeks, Berlin is transformed a world of imaginative creatures contributed by creative minds from all over the world. Enjoy our shootings from the opening night, followed by a Character Walk along more than 30 galleries stuffed with illustrations, objects and installations.
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Transversale 2009 offers a full program (Feb.-Jun.) on the interface between art and design. Contributions of no less than ten organizations in Dortmund results in a wide range of objects and installations by artists, designers, craftsmen, and students exploring the boundaries where art meets design and design meets art.
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The annual New York Toy Fair, located at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, drew over 20,000 attendees this year. Visitors took the isles to check out over 100,000 products, and Core77 was there to bring the hottest ones right to your desktop.
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The Cologne International Design Festival consists of two main (unfortunately competing rather than collaborating) events: The IMM Furniture Show and the Passagen - a show program with a great number of exhibitions in the main fair as well as galleries, show rooms, bars and shops across the city.
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More subdued than previous years in regard to presentation spectacle, the 2009 North American International Auto Show focused on product - especially high efficiency and electric vehicles. This was the year everyone got serious about "eco" being more than just a nice idea, with almost every major manufacturer introducing a hybrid or EV... at least in concept form.
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The Museum of Arts and Design inaugurated its new home at Columbus Circle with Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, a special thematic exhibition featuring 51 contemporary artists from 17 countries who transform discarded, commonplace, or valueless objects into extraordinary works of art.
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Since May 2005, the Buchstabenmuseum (German: Museum of Letters) organization has been rescuing typographic icons of our time. Today, the Buchstabenmuseum preserves an immense collection of historical letters from all over Berlin and beyond. Enjoy a visit yourself (by appointment only) or enjoy our sneak preview right now.
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The 15th edition of the EUROMOLD fair takes place in Frankfurt (3-6 Dec.) covering the product development process from the first idea to final finishing. This year we take a closer look at new materials and technologies, research projects, and the works of upcoming designers.
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Two unofficially competing events make up Tokyo's Design Week, 'Tokyo Designer's Week' anchored by the 100% Design show and 'Designtide Tokyo' (September 30 - November 3rd). In addition, a number of satellite shows and parties take place at various shop and gallery spaces during the week.
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DESIGNERSOPEN 2008 is one of the biggest design events in the east of Germany. During three days (24-26 Oct.) in Leipzig, we captured the power of a young design generation during a creative fight club, design exhibitions, historical art fair, and downtown specials.
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From the 16th - 22nd of October, the fourth annual Design Philadelphia covered the city of brotherly love with exhibitions, gallery openings, lectures, contests, and work from many talented local designers.
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FreeDesigndom 2008 is the first edition of a new annual design and fashion event in the Netherlands. The event started September 10 with a four weeks program festivals, exhibitions and symposiums. We faced the Dutch rain to check out some of the ongoing events including Experimenta Design, Hacking IKEA, Sustainable Design Collective and Red Light Fashion in the heart of Amsterdam.
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Now in its sixth year, The London Design Festival offers a great array of creative events and attracts everyone from consumers to professionals to students and all those with a keen interest in design. A great number of exhibitions and installations are taking place across London, involving a diverse range of talents, from established innovators to rising stars.
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Since 1995 around 300 participants from all over the world live and work for one week with renowned designers, architects and artists at the Domaine de Boisbuchet. Organized by the Vitra Design Museum the courses of 25 designer run during the summer for three month in an extensive park-like estate in the South of France.
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"ManufRactured" is the first exhibition of its kind: a collection of art and design objects created from re-purposed manufactured goods, from zippers and spools of thread to detergent bottles and polystyrene packaging. On display at the Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft in Oregon until January 9, 2009. Photographed by Kirill Shelayev (hikirill[at]gmail[dot]com).
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"Bicycle" is the title of a 100-day event (Jun.22 - Oct.5) full of activities and lectures anchored by a central exhibition at the Designhuis in Eindhoven. The exhibition provides a great overview on the variety of two-wheelers designed for sports, transport, showing off... everything! Some 18 million bicycles in the Netherlands make it worth checking out this gallery of Dutch design on wheels.
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From the 14th - 20th of July, the greatest display of aircraft on the planet gathered in Hampshire, UK, for an airborne extravaganza.
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Frankfurt's new furniture and gift fair took place from July 4-8 in the city's Messe Convention Center.
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"Ceramics and Sound" brings together the works of artists and designers who have been working at the European Ceramic Workcenter (.ekwc). The exhibition is on show at the Neues Kunstforum in Cologne (July 12 - August 9) and showcases sound installations, ceramic sculptures, experiments and prototypes.
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From June 26-28, the likes of Richard Hutten, Michael Young and Patrick Jouin joined creative directors Tobias Wong and Aric Chen in the Shanghai Exhibition Center to showcase design in one of the fastest developing parts of the world.
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They said: "Oh my God, Harley-Davidson is coming to town!" We decided to see for ourselves at the Hamburg Harley Days (June 20-22) with some 75,000 (custom) motorbikes and a talk with Bill Davidson about the rock and roll of design.
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"The Sky Is Not The Limit" at the Berlin Design Festival. The five day event (May 21-25) by DMY Berlin wants to show us that anything is possible. From a city where design is always and everywhere we highlighted the Swiss Design Prize and central Arena exhibitions.
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The pit-stop between Milan and Art Basel, New York Design Week 2008 (May 17-20) nontheless presented a hearty collection of the best the Design World has to offer.
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A sprawling wonderland of populist and homespun technology, courtesy of Make Magazine. San Mateo, California - May 3-4, 2008.
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Material Xperience inspires us with materials from recycled chewing gum to transparent concrete. This four day event (23-26 Apr.) gathers the latest materials for architecture and design – including weblinks, lectures, and fashion show.
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Milan Design Week (April 16-21) has grown even larger in scale, noticeably in the Zona Tortona design district where numerous new shows popped-up. While sustainability was a common theme being thrown around this year, there was certainly enough indulgent design to counterbalance this message.
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Check in at the Aircraft Interiors Expo 2008 in Hamburg (Apr. 1-3). This is where the billion-dollar industry gives us a sneak preview at the flight experience we get for tomorrow's ticket. Check out the increase of style, comfort and industrial design.
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Tattoos old-fashioned? Think again. Our skin close coverage of this year's Tattoo Convention kills all myths with a closer look at the art of tattoo (Mar. 22-24). Experience how skilled artists turn their hand sketches into everlasting body art.
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Trends at this years fair (Jan 7-20) saw a much stronger focus on 'green' issues and a heightened awareness of safety with many manufactures overtly promoting their 'Made in the USA' status. To be expected, a larger proportion of toys were offering a virtual component to extend the experience.
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Join the Swedes at this year's Stockholm Design Week (Feb 6-10), the biggest design event in the Nordic countries. See student works from over 20 design schools at the Greenhouse, meet young start-ups at the Telefonplan, or move downtown where Designboost brings sustainability into practise.
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The annual confab of homegrown-bike builders visits Portland, Ore. - NAHBS 2008! An amazing showcase of craftsmanship, materials and style that no designer should miss.
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Considered one of the most important automotive shows in world, the Detroit Auto Show (Jan. 13-27) showcased a massive selection of concept cars, trucks and SUVs with a strong focus on sustainability, even from the high-performance and luxury manufactures.
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The Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas (Jan 6-9) was all about convergence this year with media boxes bringing your digital files & internet to the television and a myriad of mobile phone / web browsing / media playing devices.
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NYU's 2007 Interactive Telecommunications Program Winter Show is somewhat like attending a science fair with the sensory overload of a theme park at night. The fundamental criteria for student projects is that they must build a working prototype.
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Increasing in scale and importance, the annual Design Miami show (Dec. 7-9) took place during the Art Basel Miami Beach event playing host to design exhibitions, talks and performances.
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Material Vision 2007 surprises us with 30 Design Plus Award winners, quality exhibitors and inspiring lectures by IDEO, ARTEK and more. The two-day event is organized by the Messe Frankfurt and the German Design Council for the materials industry to connect with us creatives and vice versa.
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Held at the Art Director's Club Nov. 9th in New York, Core77's Offsite presented the theme 'Design, Wit, and the Creative Act' moderated by Ze Frank with panelists Kelly Dobson, Steven Heller, Paul Budnitz, and Tobias Wong.
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The Dutchies have been working out! Not only because of a long expected "graduation 2007" but also because of this year's newcomers at Strijp-S, a NAT exhibition, holy designers at TAC, and a worthy "other things" off-road program.
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MATERIALICA celebrates its 10th anniversary. This year's materials event focuses on composites and lightweight design solutions. Awarded designs, featuring new materials and technologies, are displayed at the MATERIALICA Design Show.
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Growing in size, the 5th London Design Festival (Sept. 15-25) has quickly established itself as a major design event. Tom Dixon was appointed as the new creative director for the 100% Design show held at Earls Court, and this year saw a very successful debut for Tent London (formally 100% East) at the Truman Brewery. Congratulation to Designersblock who celebrated their 10th anniversary show.
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Now in its third year, Helsinki Design Week is an international festival for the creative industries. Spread across several venues—the galleries, studios and museums of Design District, the exhibition halls and event spaces at the Cable Factory, and at at the convention-hall spaces of Habitare, the event brings designers and visitors together in a week-long celebration of design and creativity.
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This year's bigger than ever Istanbul Design Week transforms the historical Galata bridge into a six-day design panorama featuring local design works with lectures, workshops and exhibitions from all over the world (4-10 September 2007).
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From May 12-20, Europe's design scene is gathered in Berlin for DESIGNMAI 2007. This year's design festival celebrates its fifth anniversary with a special focus on the convergence of technology and design incl. contributions from designers from all over the world. Join us walking the streets of Berlin with its all over town shows and events.
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With barely enough time to recover from Milan in April, New York Design Week (May 19 - 22) shifted its focus back to Manhattan with the strongest ICFF show seen in years, schools participated with high concept booths and well resolved prototypes. The crowd pleaser was HauteGREEN, clearly the most outstanding satellite exhibition for those on the design trail.
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A festival of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP.
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Design Philadelphia (April 12-27), hosted a number of events, exhibitions and lectures. Highlights included the "Philly Heart Design" show and symposium "The Grid".
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Milano Design week, from April 18-23, 2007, attracted more than 250,000 visitors.
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Hannover Fair's "Material Trends 2007" is an ode to the stuff our products are made of. Here we meet the people and products behind the iF material award 2007, get inspired by material exhibitions and learn about student projects at German design schools.
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Core77's Offsite series lives on in Portland, Oregon at Someday Lounge, featuring Derek Welch and Jason Bacon of UNKL.
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The Consumer Electronics Show hosts the largest display of technology in the world, attracting record number of attendees and exhibitors. CES 2007 was held in Vegas (Jan. 8 - 11) presenting everything from cellphones to robotics.
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For many, the new year really starts January 15th when Cologne opens the IMM furniture fair partnered by its PASSAGEN off-site design program. We explored Cologne's design scene putting the latest trends in the spotlight.
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EuroMold 2006 (5-8 December) stands for a superscale trade fair on product development from A to Z. A 13th edition with special attention for design and engineering, the German Design Award and the future of road transport.
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Core77's 3rd Design 2.0 panel discussion was held in Boston. Speakers John Maeda, Natalie Jeremijenko, Bill Cockayne and Jason Pearson explored the topic of 'Design, Technology, and the Future'.
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MATERIALICA is a yearly meeting place for the high-end industry where we discover material solutions for tomorrow's products. This year features a special composites fair, expert talks, Dutch design and the Design Award ceremony (Oct'06).
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From September 28th to October 1st, 2006, WIRED NextFest brought the future of exploration, entertainment, transportation, health, communication, design, security, and green living to NYC.
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The London Design Festival (Sept 15 - 30) anchored by the 100% Design Show and its offsprings 100% Detail and 100% Light (Sept. 20 - 23) enjoyed an unusually warm summer-like week. Once again London's east end competed for the attention offering a diverse range of young designer & graduate group shows.
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The today and tomorrow of Turkish design is featured at the 2nd Istanbul Design Week, a six day program (September 12-17) including exhibiting designers, creative workshops and conference discussion.
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Core77 moved it to the left taking the Design 2.0 panel discussion,"Products and their Ecosystems: Understanding the power of context in product innovation" to San Francisco on June 6th.
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Design enthusiasts from around the world flocked to NYC for a week full of unbridled design madness.
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Creatives from all over the world gathered in Berlin for the DESIGNMAI design festival (May 18-21). The fourth episode focuses on the relationship between design and urbanity featuring superscale exhibitions at the central locations DESIGNCITY and YOUNGSTERS. Four days of happenings, parties and discussion on the future of design are the pulse of the city.
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Thanks again to the hard-core fans who made it over the bridge and kicked in 11 years online with monster mayhem, break dancing and the launch of the custom fila original tennis shoe 'bluföm'.
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Material Trends 2006 follows up on last years special event at the Hannover Fair featuring the latest news in materials and design. This is where Material Connexion, Material Sense and Designafairs present their latest material collections, design students display new Technogel concepts and winners gather to receive the prestigious iF material award.
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The 45th International Furniture Fair (April 5-10) featuring over 350 events was host to almost 200,000 visitors.
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Core77 hosted the first Design 2.0 panel discussion "From Complexity to Clarity", featuring Method's Kevin Farnham, Googles's Marissa Mayer, Peer Insight's Jeneanne Rae, Z-Plus Partners' Andrew Zolli and BusinessWeek's Bruce Nussbaum as moderator.
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Growing in scale every year, Tokyo Design Week (Nov. 2 - 6, 2005) is comprised of the main show at Jingu Galen in central Tokyo, the 100% Design Show, DesignTide - a series of presentations in shops, galleries & cafes and a student exhibition showcasing work from universities throughout Japan.
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The third episode of Material Vision (Frankfurt, Nov. 10-11) is a meeting place for industrial designers, architects and product developers come to learn more about innovative materials and meet with researchers and developers.
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The fourth annual Dutch Design Week (15 - 23 Oct) which takes place in Eindhoven is a platform for tomorrows designer's anchored by the graduate exhibition from the 'Design Academy Eindhoven'.
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SAFE : Design Takes On Risk (Oct. 16, 2005 - Jan. 2, 2006), the first major design exhibition at the New York MoMA since its reopening features more then 300 products designed in response to psychological and physical threats.
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100% Design, the largest Interior Design show in the UK, (Sept. 22-25) joined the London Design Festival with some 90 satellite shows turning the hipster east end into a designspotting mecca for furniture and design objects.
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Designersblock makes its debut at the old Police Headquarters in Frankfurt this August. About 35 designers and labels from eight countries expose a daring design alternative to the main-stream Tendence Lifestyle. Included a sneak peek at the outdoor design event 'fresch'.
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Part of the Sydney Design Festival (6-21 August 2005), The Workshopped exhibition featured 30 up and coming Australian furniture designers located in the 19th century Strand Arcade.
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A collection of photos from end of year student shows from various schools.
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Berlin's international design festival DESIGNMAI. The third edition offered a city full of events offering insights into the contemporary design scene. The program includes several large exhibitions and a multitude of satellite events throughout the city including award ceremonies, parties and happenings in unusual settings (May 2005).
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Material Trends, a special show at the Hannover Fair 2005 (Germany) dedicated to material innovation in design. This exhibition with over a thousand materials provides an interesting overview on how materials are a driving factor in product innovation. The show was developed and staged by IF International Forum Design who also presented the IF material award.
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From May 12 - 18, New York City will be the host of hundreds of exhibits, openings, shows and parties that together make up the New York Design Week. Anchored by the ICFF show at the Javits Center, this is the pre-eminent U.S. design event for the year.
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Once again, the biggest furniture fair in the world delivered some very inspiring and progressive ideas in what proved to be an unusually sunny week for Milan this time of year.
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