Ajlan Gharem has been announced as the winner of the sixth edition of the Jameel Prize, the £25,000 award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition. Gharem was chosen by the prize’s jury for his architectural installation Paradise […]
Over 2,000 young inventors entered the James Dyson Award this year, and the jury has nominated a winner and two runners up in each off the 28 participating regions. For the UAE, that means more kudos for the Shield project […]
Office furniture behemoth Herman Miller – which recently launched a Post-Pandemic Office Collection (their title) – has been thinking about how designers and their customers might see the office of the future (now there’s a phrase we thought we’d last […]
It’s starting to look as though an arts festival of some kind is a must-have for the image-conscious emirate – even the smallest. Ajman Tourism Development Department is to run the Al Murabbaa Arts Festival for ten days from the […]
Dubai Future Foundation’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution UAE (C4IR UAE) has named LuxAI the winner of its Smart Toys Competition. LuxAI, a spinoff from the University of Luxembourg, has a kid-sized bot named QTrobot that initially allows children […]
Project Design Space, which bills itself as “the UAE’s biggest student design competition” (though it’s the only one for schools, as far as we know) has gone virtual for its fifth edition. That has meant it could easily take entries […]
The House of Wisdom, a library and cultural centre that is being pitched as the catalyst for a new cultural quarter for Sharjah, has opened to the public. Foster + Partners designed the 12,000m2 building, and it looks very good […]
The organisers of Downtown Design have confirmed dates and location for its 2021 edition. As expected, the major B2B element of Dubai Design Week will be returning to its purpose-built venue at the d3 Waterfront; the November slot is retained, […]
Herman Miller has announced the three winners of its Resilient Student Design Challenge 2020, a competition for design undergrads it runs with the Interior Design Department at AUD. The brief was to design an efficient, versatile workstation for designers, architects […]
Designing something to sit on is a staple of design school projects and a no-brainer as a subject for a competition: a chair an everyday object that nearly everyone uses, a classic in terms of asking function and form to […]
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