3 Days of Design in Copenhagen is a growing fixture on the design calendar — so much so that we recently heard murmurings that the show is considering changing its name to expand beyond its temporal limitations. But for now, let's look back on the ninth edition, which took place over three days in June and pointed to the event becoming an even bigger spectacle in years to come.

If anyone here is in the business of bringing journalists to Australia for Melbourne Design Week, please allow this to be us throwing our official hat in the ring. Because there's no other design fair right now that's both so exciting and yet that we feel so removed from, having never even set foot on the continent. The 10 projects we're featuring here today absolutely crackle with energy and are sensitive about material reuse in a way we hope to see replicated from here on out in other design fairs; we'd love nothing more than to have seen them in person. But we'll settle for this: choosing the best of the best, and sending them our digital love.

At the beginning of this month's New York design mania, I joked that while I've complained in the past that New York Design Week was too drawn out (it ballooned to nearly a month last year), this year felt too compressed, a kind of karmic retribution for my grumbling. How could we possibly see everything, and so close to Milan when we'd just gone through the same routine? But perhaps that sense of urgency was exactly what New York needed. (And, in truth, the "week" stretched to almost two). Because somewhere along the way, I realized I was having a significant amount of fun. Last year, we all agreed that "New York Design Week was back," etc. etc., and we saw wonderful work in beautiful locations. But this year something else returned to the city. New York got a little weird again — in a good way. After the jump, take a spin through some of our favorites, then come back tomorrow for another round of highlights, including our picks from this year's ICFF!

Today we’re featuring the best of Salone Satellite — the fair's emerging designer showcase — as well as Alcova and the rest of the Fuorisalone around town. Some favorites included the hefty, haute glass kettlebells by Chef Deco at Alcova, Daisuke Yamamoto's lightweight gauge steel chairs at Drop City, Sunnei's Murano glass pleasure objects at Convey, Loewe's tinsel and yarn repurposed chairs, and a swampy green shimmering glass bench and tubular steel chair at Satellite.