We took the water taxi to Randall's Island for the second edition of Frieze New York which has successfully broken the typical art fair format with it's generous open spaces, amazing natural light, and excellent choice of food vendors.

Checkout the latest trends in products for the home, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom from over 2000 exhibitors at the annual IHHS in Chicago.

With a record number of submissions from 73 nations, designers answered the challenge "Genius design for a better everyday." There were 6 Global Winners: Gold, Silver, Bronze in two categories, 3 Sustainability Award Winners: 2 Students and 1 Professional & Enthusiast, 30 National Winners and 20 Special Mentions.

Our highlights from this year's Tokyo Design Week. This year's design presentations emphasized natural materials, further integration of new technologies and traditional forms that delight in new ways.

Taking place in a diverse range of neighborhoods, industrial spaces and design districts, the second annual design week presented a new generation of young designers eager to find a voice for Chinese design.

Now in it's sixth year, Vienna Design Week continued to champion the merits of Austrian creativity with a lot of designers placing an emphasis on the process behind their furniture and objects.

Celebrating it's tenth anniversary, the city was overrun with hundreds of exhibitions, events, installations, and workshops. A big digital presence was felt with the V&A Prism, Philips Lighting, BE Open Sound Portal, Google Web Labs, and Nokia getting in on the action at Designjunction.

We follow 'Unknown Fields Division' on their trip to the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada to participate in the festival dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. They depart one week later, having left no trace whatsoever.

An exhibition exploring human enhancement at Wellcome Collection, London, that takes a broad and playful look the extraordinary ways people have attempted to improve, adapt and enhance their body's performance throughout history.

Tom Sachs and his team of 13 artists took over the Park Avenue Armory in New York with a DIY installation conceptualizing a NASA mission to colonize Mars. Space vehicles, equipment, and even the Mars landscape were created from found objects and readily available low-tech materials.

Recognizing the excellence of design enterprise across 17 categories, the Core77 Design Awards celebrates the richness of the design profession from client work to self-initiated projects, and entrepreneurial to pro-bono engagements.

Paying tribute to 50 years of Bond films, London's Barbican showcases a huge selection of costumes, props, gadgets and design drawings from Sean Connery's 1962 debut as 007 in Dr No to this year's Skyfall.

Every second year the aviation industry and aircraft enthusiasts converge at the world's most iconic airshow in South East England. The aerospace sector dominated this year with Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo making it's European debut.

This year's annual summer show took place simultaneously in six buildings across the college's two campuses in Battersea and Kensington with projects exploring everything from subversion, to social impact, and engineering research.

New York-based designer and educator Anna Rabinowicz toured metal factories in the south of Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) to research sand casting, vertical die casting, and horizontal cold-chamber die casting.

Celebrating it's 10th anniversary, this year's festival presented work from over 500 designers, firms and institutions at the former airport Tempelhof and in various locations throughout Berlin. For the first time, DMY hosted the official Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland design award.

The Design Museum Holon in Tel Aviv hosted the cities second annual design week, and invited nineteen design week directors and design leaders from all over the world for what can be best described as design summer camp.

Bright colors, mixed materials, primitive shapes and multi-functional objects permeated the collections we saw this year at ICFF, WantedDesign and the NoHo Design District.

From Broadway to Rockaway, Pelham to Freshkills, 8.2 million people call New York City home. On the occasion of New York Design Week, Core77 takes a moment to survey the landscape of all five boroughs with an open call to designers to represent their hometown.

More than 180 contemporary galleries took part in the inaugural edition of Frieze New York making it the largest event produced by Frieze. The fair took place in a temporary structure, designed by Brooklyn-based architects SO - IL, on Randall's Island.