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 [ … ]
Dubai Future Accelerators, the project-based co-working initiative of the Dubai Future Foundation, has been named as one of the winners of the international iF Design Award 2022. The iF Design Award is one of the biggest and best established competitions [ … ]
The Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation reports that participation in its annual Project Design Space competition for schools is higher than ever for its sixth edition. More than 2,500 students are taking part, not least because the contest has [ … ]
Tashkeel has selected its largest cohorts yet for its two key professional development programmes. For the the sixth iteration of its Critical Practice Programme, for early-career visual artists in the UAE, it received 75 applications. Six artists have been selected [ … ]
City Gazing Dubai is a clever way of looking at the metropolis. It’s a massive 18x11m dynamic light art installation showing the development of Dubai’s street pattern, suspended eight meters above DIFC Gate Avenue. The illuminated plan of Dubai comes [ … ]
In the wake of Covid, should the design industry rethink its reliance on extravagant, wasteful trade fairs and look for a more sustainable alternative? Esra Lemmens looks at the options – and the opportunities. Over the last century, the design [ … ]
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