Airbnb
Positioned at 79 in our overall Hot List and 18 in our ranking of brands, rental website Airbnb has changed the way we holiday and design our homes.
dRMM
Tokujin Yoshioka
Note Design Studio
Herman Miller
Humberto and Fernando Campana
Ciguë
Braun
Wiel Arets
White Arkitekter
Amazon
Thonet
Formwerkz Architects
Converse
Last year footwear brand Converse redesigned its iconic canvas basketball shoe and this year the popularity of that story has propelled the brand to number 81 in our inaugural Dezeen Hot List.
Brexit
The EU Referendum, and its surprise result in favour of Brexit, dominated the news in June – at least to people living in the UK. Readers elsewhere are thoroughly sick of the topic no doubt.
RCR Arquitectes
Chanel
Founded in 1909, Chanel is one of the most revered fashion brands in the world, but it doesn't tend to crop up on our design radar too often. However it has stormed its way to the top of our fashion list this year thanks to a single project: Crystal Houses, its
Allies and Morrison
Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Chanel leads our Fashion Hot List, ahead of COS and Dior
Dezeen is not a fashion site but we cover the topic when we think a collection is interesting enough for our designer audience, or when the brand collaborates with architects and designers from a non-fashion background.
Milan Design Week emerges victorious in our Events Hot List
This is a competitive field: there has been an explosion in the number of design weeks and architecture festivals in recent years. Yet the oldies still reign supreme, according to our readers. Milan Design Week (which includes the 55-year-old Salone del Mobile) is our top event, while the
