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 Screenshot of the website in December 2024 | |
| Available in | English |
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| Owner | NZZ Mediengruppe |
| Created by | Birgit Lohmann Massimo Mini |
| Editor | Sofia Lekka Angelopoulou (since 2023) |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | 1999 |
Designboom (stylized as designboom) is a daily web magazine headquartered in Milan and covering the fields of industrial design, architecture, and art internationally.
Launched in 1999, the publication was the first web magazine to focus on industrial design, architecture, and art internationally.
In 2010, designboom china was launched. [1] In 2012, designboom and Architonic formed a strategic alliance to pool their digital resources. [2] In 2017, designboom launched The Design Prize with the Italian magazine Abitare awarding top designers in ten categories. [3] In January 2022, designboom was acquired by the Architonic/ ArchDaily group (owned by the Swiss media group NZZ). [4] In February 2023, Sofia Lekka Angelopoulou replaced Birgit Lohmann as editor-in-chief of designboom. [5]
Designboom features interviews and firsthand studio visits with designers and architects, in addition to coverage of international design fairs and new projects. Newsletters are published daily.
Designboom runs several international design competitions each year, in partnership with large companies. [6] In addition, Designboom hosts young designers "marts" at a range of furniture and design fairs, an exhibition format that it introduced in 2005 at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City, and which has since become an industry standard. [7] [8]
In 2012, Designboom itself became a subject of media attention for its defense of Takeshi Miyakawa when the artist was arrested and held on Riker's Island for a controversial street installation in New York City. [9] Miyakawa was collaborating with Designboom on a lighting installation for the International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the time. [10]
Sir David Frank Adjaye is a Ghanaian-British architect who has designed many notable buildings around the world, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.. Adjaye was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to architecture. He received the 2021 Royal Gold Medal, making him the first African recipient and one of the youngest recipients. He was appointed to the Order of Merit in 2022.
Barber Osgerby is a London-based industrial design studio founded in 1996 by British designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. Historically named variously Barber Osgerby Associates, BOA, Barber & Osgerby and BarberOsgerby, the practice has been called Barber Osgerby since 2008. Barber and Osgerby's work encompasses interiors, furniture, lighting and product design as well as art and architectural-scale projects.
Julia Lohmann is a multidisciplinary designer, educator and researcher living and working in Helsinki, Finland. She is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Design at Aalto University.
David Weeks is an American designer of lighting, furniture, and household products.
Sebastian Bergne is a British industrial designer. He has made designs for consumer products, lighting, furniture, kitchenware and tableware. Companies that have manufactured his designs include Luceplan, Pierre Frey, Tolix, Driade, Tefal, Muji, De Beers, and Vitra.
Tokyo Design Week (TDW), formally known as Tokyo Designers Week, was an annual design event that occurred from 2005 to 2016, at Meiji Jingu Gaien in central Tokyo, Japan. The event featured product design, interior design and had expanded to include art and graphic design as well as short films. Since 2005, Tokyo Design Week had been held at Meiji Jingu Gaien, near Gaienmae Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line.
Cerno is a business based in Aliso Viejo, California, specializing in modern LED lighting fixtures that are designed and manufactured in the United States.
Fernando Mastrangelo is a New York-based artist best known for his collectible design, as well as his large scale sculptures and experiential installations. Mastrangelo is the founder of Fernando Mastrangelo Studio (FM/S).
Molo Design Limited, stylized as molo, is a multidisciplinary design and production studio based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada led by Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen. The studio integrates the practices of architecture, craft, and product design. molo products develop from Forsythe and MacAllen's materials research and studies.
TenBerke is a New York City, based architecture and interior design firm founded and led by Deborah Berke, who concurrently serves as Dean of the Yale School of Architecture.
Michael Young is a British industrial designer and creative director based in Hong Kong. He works in the areas of product, furniture and interior design with studios in Hong Kong and Brussels. He is known for unconventional use of materials and manufacturing processes, and collaborations with brands such as Brionvega, Cappellini, KEF, La Manufacture, and MOKE International. He is interested in "how disruption in society always has a design response, because it usually creates a need for things that perform."
ArchDaily is a website covering architectural news, projects, products, events, interviews and competitions, opinion pieces, among others, catering to architects, designers and other interested parties.
Dakota Jackson is an American furniture designer known for his eponymous furniture brand, Dakota Jackson, Inc., his early avant-garde works involving moving parts or hidden compartments, and his collaborations with the Steinway & Sons piano company.
Emeco is a privately held company based in Hanover, Pennsylvania. The Emeco 1006, known as the Navy Chair, has been in continuous production since the 1940s. Today, Emeco manufactures furniture designed by notable designers and architects such as Philippe Starck, Norman Foster, and Frank Gehry.
Valentin Vodev is an Austrian-Bulgarian industrial designer. He creates design solutions for consumer goods with a focus on urban mobility products.
Souda is a design studio based in Brooklyn, New York, specializing in modern furniture, lighting and accessories. The studio was named as one of the “coolest design companies” at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) 2013 by Complex Magazine, and was awarded the Editors Choice Award for Best New Design Studio in 2014 at the ICFF.
Tom Strala is a Swiss architect, designer and artist, known for his raw furniture and lighting designs. In 2005, Strala was awarded 2nd place of the European Luminary of the Year for the TMS 360 Series, a honeycomb structured light shade. His work is included in several exhibitions in museums and universities. Strala is known as design pioneer in marrying art and design.
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Serhii Makhno is a Ukrainian architect, designer, and artist. He is the founder of Makhno Studio.