Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs, who passed away earlier this year, has been honoured posthumously at the BSME Awards for his "massive contribution to magazine journalism". More
Marcus Fairs, who passed away late last month, changed the way we consume design news, writes Justin McGuirk in this obituary for Dezeen's founder and former editor-in-chief.
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This week on Dezeen, architects, designers, critics and readers paid tribute to Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. More
Architects, designers and critics have paid tribute to Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs for his "phenomenal contribution to architecture and design publishing". More
We are very sad to announce the sudden and unexpected death of Dezeen founder, CEO and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs at the age of 54. More
Dezeen has picked up two more awards this week with Virtual Design Festival winning event of the year and Dezeen's founder Marcus Fairs receiving the digital leadership prize at IBP's annual journalism awards ceremony. More
Dezeen has been named Digital Service of the Year at the International Building Press Awards, while editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs won the Multi-Media Journalist of the Year title. More
Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs has been named Digital Editor of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors. More
London newspaper the Evening Standard has named Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs as one of the city's 1,000 most influential figures. More
Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic, curator Glenn Adamson, architect Farshid Moussavi and Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs reflect on the difficulty of predicting the impact of design, in this movie produced by Dezeen for Beazley Designs of the Year. More
Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs has been named the first-ever international ambassador for Dutch Design Week, alongside homegrown figures Winy Maas of architecture firm MVRDV, and design studio Atelier NL. More
Dutch designer Merel Bekking has presented Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs with a shiny plastic rotating chair after scanning his brain to establish his subconscious style preferences. More
Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will be the first digital journalist to be made an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. More
Dutch designer Merel Bekking is working on a design object based on the subconscious preferences of Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, whose brain she scanned last year (+ movie). More
News: Dezeen's editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs has been shortlisted in two categories for the British Society of Magazine Editors Awards 2014. More
News: Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs has been named in the Hospital Club 100 list of the most influential people in the UK's media and creative industries. More
News: Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs has been named Business Web Editor of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors. More
News: Dezeen has been shortlisted for two more journalism awards to add to the three we're already up for - and our editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs has been nominated for The Hospital Club 100 list of most creative people (vote here!). More
Competition: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs has updated his book full of the best designs from the 21st century and we're giving away five copies to readers before the official release. More
Dezeen is finally launching an opinion column. The first piece by our new columnist Sam Jacob will run tomorrow; here, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, whose own column will alternate with Jacob's, explains why it's taken us so long to take a stance. More