Dezeen promotion: the A' Design Award has announced its World Design Rankings list of the countries with the highest concentration of talent in arts, architecture and design, with the USA coming first and the UK placed fifth. More about A' Design Award announces World Design Rankings
Dezeen promotion: products made from HIMACS acrylic stone will be exhibited at 100% Design trade fair at Earls Court during the London Design Festival from Wednesday. More about HIMACS at 100% Design
Dezeen promotion: furniture designers including Katie Walker (above), Rebecca Scott and Charlene Mullen will exhibit at Decorex International 2012, which takes place in London from 23 to 26 September 2012. More about Decorex International 2012 preview
Dezeen promotion: the A' Design Award is now accepting architecture, interior and design project submissions for this year's competition. More about A' Design Award and Competition call for submissions
Dezeen promotion: seven designers including Ross Lovegrove, Makkink & Bey, Greg Lynn and Nendo (above) will create installations at meeting places around this year’s Biennale Interieur, which will take place in Kortrijk, Belgium, from 20-28 October (+ movies). More about Biennale Interieur 2012: Biennale in the City, City in The Biennale
Dezeen promotion: designjunction 2012 will take place at the Sorting Office, 21-31 New Oxford Street, London WC1 from 19 to 23 September during the London Design Festival and registration for free visitor passes is now open. More about designjunction 2012 at London Design Festival
Dezeen promotion: here are some of the finalists in the European Hotel Design Awards as part of this year's Sleep hotel-design fair taking place on 21 and 22 November in London. More about Sleep 2012 international hotel event
Dezeen promotion: entries are now being accepted for this year’s A’ Design Awards. Here are some of the winning projects from last year, including a beach house in Kuwait by Agi Architects (above). More about A' Design Awards winners 2012
Dezeen promotion: the winners of the garden unique competition to design outdoor dining products will exhibit their work at spoga+gafa garden trade fair in Cologne from 2 to 4 September 2012 and Dezeen readers can apply for 100 free tickets to the event. More about spoga+gafa garden unique competition winners announced
Dezeen promotion: fashion designer Vivienne Westwood (above) is to design the foyer for the Decorex International trade show from 23 to 26 September 2012 in London. More about Decorex International 2012
Dezeen promotion: vodka brand Ketel One is inviting designers and entrepreneurs to submit innovative ideas for men's lifestyle products and ventures. More about Call for entries to A Gentleman's Call for Ketel One vodka
Dezeen promotion: London graduate exhibition New Designers 2012 will showcase the work of over 3500 graduate designers from 27 to 30 June and 4 to 7 July, and Dezeen readers receive a special discount on tickets to attend the show. More about New Designers 2012
Dezeen promotion: entries are now being accepted for the Furniture Design Award and Furniture Design Platform 2013 organised by the Singapore Furniture Industries Council. More about Call for entries to the Furniture Design Award and Furniture Design Platform 2013
Dezeen promotion: this year interiors show Designer Werktag took place in Munich and featured an installation by SOFTlab. More about Designer Werktag 2012
Dezeen promotion: Japanese designer Oki Sato of Nendo will present their inaugural collection for new Singaporean design brand K% at Luminaire's Chicago showroom this month. More about Nendo presents K% collection at Luminaire
Dezeen promotion: Designjunction has announced the exhibitor line-up for its next show in a former postal sorting office in central London during the London Design Festival this September. More about Designjunction announces exhibitor line-up
Dezeen promotion: an exhibition of design from Britain curated by London collective Bricolage Project (above) opens at the Centre Commercial in Paris on Friday. More about Bricolage and Friends
Dezeen promotion: this year's DMY International Design Festival will take place at Airport Berlin Tempelhof from 6 to 10 June. More about DMY International Design Festival Berlin 2012
Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: Dezeen are media partners for the London series of www.pechakucha.com talks, and the next one takes place on Thursday 24 May at Clerkenwell Design Week with speakers including architect Nigel Coates, architecture publisher Peter Murray and designer Benjamin Hubert. More about Pecha Kucha at Clerkenwell Design Week on Thursday 24 May
Promotion: entries are now being accepted for the Wood Awards 2012. More about Call for entries to the Wood Awards 2012