Designers of the Year shortlist revealed for Dezeen Awards 2024

Dezeen has announced the Designers of the Year shortlist for this year's Dezeen Awards, which includes Studio Gang, Fala Atelier, Holloway Li and FOG Architecture.

Our Designers of the Year awards, launched last year, recognise the best emerging and established talent whose innovative work has made a notable impact on the industry across architecture, interiors and design.

This year, we opened nominations to our readers to put forward designers for consideration. We received hundreds of nominations from over 50 different countries across the world, who were then shortlisted by Dezeen's editorial team.

The 36 shortlisted studios which are in the running for awards across six different Designers of the Year categories, are located across 20 different countries including Nigeria, South Korea, Hong Kong, Germany and Mexico.

The shortlist includes Seoul-based Teo Yang Studio, shortlisted for interior designer of the year, Finnish practice Studio Laurids Gallée, shortlisted for emerging designer of the year and Paris-based product designer Neil Poulton, shortlisted for designer of the year.

American practice Studio Gang recently renovated a former tobacco warehouse for the Univerity of Kentucky and Bangladesh-based Marina Tabassum Architects installed a demountable bamboo house at the Vitra Campus in Germany, are both shortlisted for architect of the year.

Dutch practice Studio Sabine Marcelis has been shortlisted for designer of the year with recent projects spanning an installation featuring four rotating glass pillars for the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and a water fountain made using repurposed onyx stone in Amsterdam.

All Dezeen Awards 2024 shortlisted projects revealed

Dezeen Awards 2024, in partnership with Bentley, revealed all shortlisted projects this week.

The architecture, interiors, design and sustainability shortlists were published earlier this week and this year's Bentley Lighthouse Award shortlist will be announced next Monday.

Top: ToSummer Beijing Guozijian by FOG Architecture. Photo by Inspace. Above: Bay Window Tower House by Yuko Fuji Architecture. Photo by Masao Nishikawa

All shortlisted Designers of the Year are listed below, each with a link to a dedicated page on the Dezeen Awards website, where you can find an image and more information about the designer.

Designers of the Year winners will be announced live at our annual Dezeen Awards party on 26 November at Hackney Church in London.

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Read on for the full Designers of the Year shortlist:


Common Thread by SO–IL. Photo by Filip Dujardin

Architect of the year

Oshinowo Studio
Fala Atelier
Marina Tabassum Architects
Studio Gang
SO–IL
Estudio MMX

Browse all architects on the architect of the year page.


Twisted Brick Shell Concept Library by HCCH Studio. Photo by Fangfang Tian

Emerging architect of the year

Studio Saar
New Practice
HCCH Studio
EBBA
Takaaki Fuji + Yuko Fuji Architecture
FOG Architecture

Browse all architects on the emerging architect of the year page.


Lammhults Design Group Copenhagen Showroom by Note Design Studio. Photo by Erik Lefvander

Interior designer of the year

Roisin Lafferty
Studio Modijefsky
Note Design Studio
CHZON
Flack Studio
Teo Yang Studio

Browse all designers on the interior designer of the year page.


Highbury Apartment by Holloway Li. Photo by Edmund Dabney

Emerging interior designer of the year

Amelda Wilde Interior Design
Mistovia
Holloway Li
Furora Studio
Act of Quad
Ivy Studio

Browse all designers on the emerging interior designer of the year page.


Panorama by Studio Sabine Marcelis. Photo by Fredrik Brauer

Designer of the year

Neil Poulton
John Tree
Studio Sabine Marcelis
Nendo
Fumie Shibata
Zanellato/Bortotto

Browse all designers on the designers of the year page.


Five x Seven by Budde in collaboration with SolidNature. Photo by Budde

Emerging designer of the year

Didi Ng Wing Yin
Budde
Kodai Iwamoto Design
Studio Laurids Gallée
Mari Koppanen
Nmbello Studio

Browse all designers on the emerging designer of the year page.

Dezeen Awards 2024 in partnership with Bentley

Dezeen Awards is the ultimate accolade for architects and designers across the globe. The seventh edition of the annual awards programme is in partnership with Bentley as part of a wider collaboration to inspire, support and champion design excellence and showcase innovation that creates a better and more sustainable world. This ambition complements Bentley's architecture and design business initiatives, including the Bentley Home range of furnishings and real estate projects around the world.