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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. More
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Audi
Number 82 in our Hot List is Audi – the German car brand that has fended off competition from upstarts like Tesla and Apple, created a 3D-printed fashion collection and marked itself as one of the megabrands that stole the spotlight at this year's Milan design week. More
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Gensler
Gensler is the world's largest architectural firm, with projects on every continent, although its biggest news of the last year came from Asia and North America. More
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Issey Miyake
Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake turns 79 next spring but his brand is still a major player. This year the fashion house unveiled a new technique for pleating fabric that involved applying glue and baking garments in an oven. Our post about the resulting Spring Summer 2016 collection was one of our most popular fashion stories of the year. More
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Pitsou Kedem
The highest ranking Israeli architect on the Hot List is Tel Aviv-based Pitsou Kedem, whose Modernist-inspired homes and apartments are perennial favourites of Dezeen readers. More
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Li Edelkoort
One of our biggest scoops of 2015 was our exclusive interview with leading trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, who announced that "fashion is dead". The provocative interview, in which she described fashion as "a ridiculous and pathetic parody of what it has been," was widely reported by other publications and generated a slew of comments. More
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H Arquitectes
It might be a surprise to find H Arquitectes in the top 100, but the Spanish office has had a couple of big hits in recent months. More
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Instagram
It seems Instagram's ability to show the world sneak-peaks of high-profile buildings under construction has earned it a place in our Hot List. More
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Grimshaw
Competition wins and ambitious proposals helped cement a top-100 Hot List ranking for Nicholas Grimshaw's London firm. More
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Nook Architects
Nook Architects has become the go-to studio for the renovation of historic Barcelona apartments and houses, thanks to a sensitive approach to restoring original details, combined with an enthusiasm for colour and pattern.
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Jonathan Ive
Apple design head Jonathan Ive is one of the most famous and influential designers on the planet. His celebrity is great enough that in March this year, Sacha Baron Cohen spoofed his Apple presentation style to promote the movie Grimsby. More
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RIBA
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body that celebrates the best architecture in the UK and across the world. The London-based organisation presents a number of awards annually, including the prestigious Stirling Prize and RIBA's highest honour: the Royal Gold Medal for architecture. More
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Haptic
London- and Oslo-based Haptic has been slowly establishing its reputation since launching in 2009, but there was one project in particular that raised its profile last year – a proposal for contemporary properties in a conservation area in London's Chelsea. It was a huge hit with Dezeen readers, partly due to the impressive visual that accompanied the design. More
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Uber
After launching in 2009 as a black car service for 100 friends in San Francisco, Uber has transformed the taxi industry and is 94 in our Hot List. It hit the headlines this year after announcing that it is testing driverless car technology and prompting a wider debate about the future of transportation in cities. More
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Marcio Kogan/Studio MK27
Studio MK27 is the Brazilian firm led by Marcio Kogan, an architect who started his career as a movie director. More
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Richard Meier
Establishing his eponymous New York-based practice more than 50 years ago, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier is famed for his white and glass palette – as seen in his private museum and library in New Jersey and his firm's proposal for a 163-metre-high skyscraper under construction in Taichung. The American continued this theme with his first project in Korea – a waterfront hotel for the Winter Olympics. More
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MIT
This was the second year in a row that Massachusetts Institute of Technology was named the world's top architecture school in the QS University Rankings, beating 1,668 other institutions. More
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Philippe Starck
The maker of the iconic Louis Ghost chair, Gnome stool and Juicy Salif citrus squeezer, Philippe Starck is one of the most famous and prolific designers in the world. As such, it makes sense that a lot of the interest in the Frenchman on Dezeen came from Google and site searches to his tag page, which rounds up all the stories about him. More
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Max Lamb
A former protege of Tom Dixon, London designer Max Lamb has built a reputation for tactile products that focus on exploring the possibilities of the materials they're made from. More
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Konstantin Grcic
German industrial designer Konstantin Grcic completes our overall top 100 and comes in at 14 in our design list. A total of 48 different stories about the Munich-based designer were visited by our readers over the year, but the most popular by far was the one featuring the minimal hut he designed for Muji. More