The shear scale of Salone Internazionale del Mobile (April 14-19) is overwhelming, this gallery is a collection of highlights from shows that take place throughout the city.

Core77's flagship store located in Portland Oregon is dedicated to people who make things with supplies for drawing, tools for fabricating, and workwear for protection.

What Happens When is a temporary restaurant in SoHo New York where the interior, food and sound changes each month. The project will run for nine months and we'll be updating this gallery as each new theme emerges.

Held in Chicago, this year's IHHS (March 6th-8th) saw an explosion in re-usable water bottles, many consumer goods featuring rubber silicone in every color, and fire -- lot's of products for cooking and heating!

Now in its 5th year, the Designers of the Year 2010 exhibition was held in Prague's Rudolfinum Gallery celebrating the best of Czech design across seven categories.

Celebrating its 60th anniversary, this year saw strong references to mother nature, lots and lots of wood, and as usual the Greenhouse Show featuring 35 young independent designers had a few delightful surprises.

Returning to the London Design Museum for the fourth year, the exhibition presented around 100 projects that fall into seven categories - architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport.

Trends at this year's International Gift Fair (Jan 29 - Feb 3) included bold color treatment in homewares, overt claims to eco-friendliness, and general a optimism amongst sellers.

Founded in 1989, the North American International Auto Show is annual showcase of the best in automotive design. The 2011 show took place in Detroit January 10th-23rd and showcased everything from concept cars, auto previews, and vintage beauties. Celebrating a record turnout this year with over 735,000 attendees, this year's auto show was a celebration of the industry's recovery and a peek into its future.

NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program presented a two-day exhibition of recent works by students. The winter show is always an impressive collection of new ideas ranging from video sculpture, computational media and wearable technologies.

Design Miami 2010 celebrated a new location this year with a Moorhead & Moorhead designed temporary structure and an outdoor lobby debuting Designer of the Year Konstantin Grcic's NETSCAPE, a collection of 24 swing-seats.

The 9th edition of Dutch Design Week (DDW) ran from October 23th to 31th in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, stuffed with more than 300 events by at least 1.000 designers. Exhibitions, workshops, fashion shows, awards and product launches—Dutch and from abroad.

Subtitling itself as "Soul and Style of the Orient", the Bangkok International Gift Fair (BIG) and Houseware Fair (BIH) present a total of 600 exhibitors, mainly from South East Asia.

Organised and curated by Neigungsgruppe Design, Vienna becomes a platform and showcase of design with an emphasis on "international but local," with a number of exhibitions, talks and workshops by designers and artists from Central and Eastern Europe.

It seems like everyone's having design weeks these days. Can design world minnow Valencia make an impression with design festivities of their own?

Make Magazine's Maker Faire came to NYC this fall, leaving many happy home tinkerers in its wake. The Faire provided a connection between a wide variety of wonderful and nerdy interests, from crafting to electronics to carnival stunts.

London's design scene is at its liveliest during the London Design Festival, with hundreds of fringe events. The festival embraces the many parts of London, amplifying their character with the creation of distinct districts within each area.

Ars Electronica is a yearly festival for art, technology and society taking place in Linz, Austria. REPAIR is this year's theme and call action! Watch techy CyberArts, experimental labs and see ASIMO walk in Deep Space.

A massive, four-day long show of all the gifts you can think of. We passed on the snow-globes and focus on a special section called Accent on Design

The Maker Faire comes to Detroit for the first time in 2010! Browse the best of Motor City's fabulous creations in this gallery, including the Life-size Mousetrap, hot-rodded Power Wheel racing, and lots and lots of robots.