“The problems of the future will be solved by today’s bright young engineers and scientists. But they need inspiration and encouragement.” That’s the ethos behind the James Dyson Award; and whatever your views about Mr Dyson himself, the award has [ … ]
Arts AlUla riffed off the buzz around Paris Design Week to announce the five winners of the AlUla Design Award there. The Award invited designers to develop retail items across six categories inspired by the heritage, landscape and artistic legacies [ … ]
Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation has promoted Hani Asfour to the new position of Vice President – Innovation and Institutional Partnerships. He’s replaced as DIDI’s Dean by Dr Amir Zeid (right), formerly the Founding Dean of the College of [ … ]
The ninth Dubai Design Week is scheduled for 7 to 12 November, and the organisers are looking for participants. As part of what it’s calling “a platform to cultivate and empower design in the region”, DDW is planning a programme [ … ]
Gensler might have begun life as a Californian interior design studio, but these days it’s a multifaceted built-environment behemoth, still big in its original sphere (it heads the 2023 Interior Design Top 100 Giants list) but now probably the largest architectural practice in [ … ]
Sharjah Art Foundation announced the winners of the 2022 Publishing Grant during this year’s Focal Point Art Book Fair last week – LIBERATION RADIO by Chimurenga; Between the Brush and the Archive by Abdullah Al-Mutairi; and The Spectre of Ancestors [ … ]
The James Dyson Award might feel like naked self-promotion (why is the first name necessary?) but it does encourage young designers to come up with practical solutions to real problems – and as well as providing some cash for the [ … ]
Two young Emirati jewellery designers, Asma Almarri and Media Alfalasi, have jointly been awarded the ADMAF Design Fund. They each get AED 50,000 to develop their careers with the support of partnership with L’ÉCOLE des Arts Joailliers, the Van Cleef [ … ]
The 9th edition of the Middle East Emergent Designer Prize has been won by a novel bookstand design called Ascension. It’s by 20-year-old Moufida Mohideen, currently studying for a BA in Interior Architecture and Design at the University of Sharjah. [ … ]
Faysal Tabbarah, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Architecture at the American University of Sharjah, has been named by National Pavilion UAE as the curator for the UAE’s participation in the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia [ … ]
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