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 [ … ]
Dubai Design Week is back, and looking better than ever with a busy in-person programme of more than 200 activities of various kinds. While some of these are located around the city, DDW does clearly benefit from having a defined [ … ]
There’s obviously a lot to see at Expo 2020 Dubai – more than 200 pavilions, up to 60 live events each day, and enough ideas to keep you buzzing for a few months. And there’s a lot of art and [ … ]
Love That Design, a Dubai-based B2B interior design platform, has just published a survey of the local design ecosystem. It offers qualitative as well as quantitive assessment of responses from a broad range of players in what looks like mostly [ … ]
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