"Commitment of the design community remains strong" says Ukrainian design week founders

This year's Ukrainian Design and Innovation Week went ahead despite Russian strikes affecting the local design community. The event's founders share their top picks of exhibited brands that have continued production amid the war.

"The reality of operating in Ukraine remains extremely challenging," Ukrainian Design and Innovation Week founders Anatolii and Kateryna Roskovshenko told Dezeen.

Imagination Day 12

Imagination Day is a true celebration of creativity ? an event that brings together visionaries, makers, and speakers from around the world. With each edition, its ambition and momentum continued to grow, but the visual identity could no longer keep up with the pace of the industry. That's why we set out to create an entirely new visual language: bold, flexible, and expansive enough to capture the diversity of today's creative landscape. The result is a complete rebrand, a set of fresh visual assets, and a new website that give Imagination Day the energy to move confidently into the years...

Design Doha Biennial 2026 set to explore how traditional crafts can shape the future of design

Design Doha Biennial 2026 opens in Doha, Qatar, today, bringing together more than 19 exhibitions, five installations and over 80 designers, featuring projects that use traditional water systems and building techniques to tackle urban heat.

Following a postponement earlier this year due to war in the Gulf, the event will now run from today until 31 January 2027, with its opening programme taking place from 5 to 7 November.

For the event Doha's historic neighbourhood of Fereej Al Asmakh has been transformed into an exhibition venue to showcase...

Concept car that transforms from SUV to pickup is "a symbol of freedom" says Fiat CEO

Fiat's new Multiplay concept car can transform from an SUV into a pickup, with movable seats and a flexible interior designed to accommodate different uses, explains the brand's CEO Arnaud Belloni in this exclusive video interview produced by Dezeen.

"We are reinventing here the concept of family car," said Belloni, describing the vehicle, which was unveiled at the 2026 Paris Motor Show.

Measuring 4.45 metres long, Multiplay combines the passenger space of a multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) with the raised stance of an SUV and the open cargo area of...

Flowers and Birds

Homes Around Trees / architectureRED

Urban housing in India stands at the intersection of rapid urbanization and a shifting sense of identity. The pressures of land scarcity and market-driven development have transformed housing into a commodity, often prioritizing maximum yield over the fundamental idea of home. In the process, the very essence of housing—as a space that fosters identity, community, and rootedness — is increasingly eroded. The relentless stacking of units, the erasure of open space, and the homogenization of urban environments leave little room for meaningful engagement with nature or with each other.

TONANA

Coatlicue-Tonantzin is the mother goddess of nature, death, and the mother of the gods in the Mesoamerican worldview, particularly within the Mexica tradition. As the archetypal great mother, she embodies the feminine principle that gives life within nature. For this project we worked with interior and furniture designer Andrés Gutiérrez, who?guided by a vivid color palette inspired by Mesoamerican cosmology?selected marbles, volcanic stones, and textured materials for building a bar inspired by the mother goddess of the Mexica pantheon. Within that chromatic range and the primordial creation myth, we developed a graphic identity based on these concepts and on the furniture...

Final chance to buy Dezeen Awards 2026 party tickets

Ticket sales for this year's Dezeen Awards party, taking place on 16 November at the Royal Opera House in London, will close next week.

Tickets are available until 23:59 London time on 10 November, meaning there are just a few more days left to secure your place.

Book your tickets now before sales close.

An evening celebrating the world's best architecture and design

Taking place at the Royal Opera House in London on 16 November, the party will bring together shortlisted studios, judges and the international architecture and design community to celebrate this year's projects and reveal the...

Great Art Explained Traces the Incredible Story of Henri Matisse’s ‘The Red Studio’

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In today’s art world, provocation and controversy are part and parcel of the market. Think recent pieces like Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian,” a.k.a. the duct-taped banana, or Damien Hirst’s diamond- and platinum-coated 18th-century human skull titled “For the Love of God.” And while art has never been immune to controversy, it hasn’t always been, let’s say, expected.

At the turn of the 20th century, art—especially the “high” mediums of painting and sculpture—were viewed and taught through the lens of deeply ingrained conventions about what made art good. Chief among these was representation: people look like people, landscapes look like landscapes,...

GEOTHERMAL LAYERS ? Iceland

Abstract aerial studies of Icelandic geothermal terrain, where pale blue water, mineral crusts and altered clay form delicate channels, cracks and layered textures across the volcanic ground.