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The success of the second annual Dubai Design Week in 2016, and in particular the Abwab exhibition, will bolster the emerging call for more global design histories.

TLmag saw a vision for a boldly resourceful creative future at the first ever survey exhibition of Egyptian design. This seminal exhibition, held during Dubai Design Week 2016, deserves to be remembered. 

In a visionary approach to a student exhibition, Dubai Design Week is pleased to present the second edition of the Global Grad Show, following a… Read more

Launched in 2014, Urban Commissions is a local design competition backed by D3 Dubai Design District and Dubai Culture & Arts Authority. Designers living and… Read more

Dubai-based design platform Tashkeel offers promising talents the ability to experiment with local Emirati craft. limited edition works by three local and interation designers were on show during last month’s Design Days Dubai.

Embodying or at least addressing the current socio-political climate, Lux Pacis by Spanish collective Amarist is a symbolic lamp offering a ‘beam of hope,’ an inverted reference… Read more

Emirati designer Aljoud Lootah brings arabesques motifs to open geometric structures in contemporary design.

Exploring contemporary themes in a plethora of materials and finishes, Beirut-based George Amatoury Studio stole the show at Design Days Dubai.

Returning for its fifth edition, Design Days Dubai – tomorrow-18 March – joins the ranks of top collectible design fairs with a slew of leading international and… Read more

According to curator Brendan McGetrick, it would take over 30-thousand miles to visit all of these schools’ thesis shows. Even if, in airline reward miles,… Read more

Bringing all corners of the world together, Downtown Design Dubai invites six fellow international design weeks to each showcase three emerging brands. Mounted as part… Read more

Often overshadowed by war and destruction, Beirut has thrived as an Arab centre of architectural, industrial and graphical design innovation over the past seven decades…. Read more