About Design What
Design What features original furniture and latest lighting products and projects from across the globe.
Design What (designwhat.net) is a design magazine on furniture and lighting. Design What honors furniture excellence and luminary technology. Designs, products, works and projects featured on Design What are created by furniture designers, lighting designers, product designers, lighting architects, industrial design studios and furniture brands from across the globe. Every work published on Design What credits the furniture designers, lighting designers, product designers, lighting architects, industrial design studios and furniture brands behind the work and guides you onward to the full presentation of the work.
Design What Publication Coverage
Design What publishes good design news, great products and projects related to Furniture Design and Lighting Products and Fixtures Design. Today Design What showcases over 1,062 award-winning designs by 687 furniture designers, lighting designers, product designers, lighting architects, industrial design studios and furniture brands.
Our editorial coverage mainly focuses on furniture and lighting. In total, Design What covers 2 design categories, among them the following:
- Furniture Design – Chairs, Tables, Sofas, Beds, Cabinets, Shelves, Desks, Wardrobes and More.
- Lighting Products and Fixtures Design – Chandeliers, Pendant Lights, Wall Sconces, Table Lamps, Floor Lamps, Outdoor Lights, Recessed Lights, Track Lights and More.
Recent features on Design What span designs such as chair, lamp, armchair, lighting, table and table lamp.
Design What publishes a daily selection of design excellence news, where we feature the Designer of the Day, the Design Team of the Day, the Design of the Day, the Design Legend of the Day, the Design Idea of the Day, the Design-Driven Brand of the Day, the Designer Highlight of the Day and the Design Interview of the Day.
Where Does Design What Source Featured Products and Projects?
We feature furniture and lighting designs, products and projects. Most of the furniture and lighting designs, products and projects featured on Design What are selected from among the winners of the A' Design Award & Competition, with a special focus on winners in Furniture Design and Lighting Products and Fixtures Design. We select most projects from the A' Design Award Winners Registry.
We prominently feature winners of the A' Design Award because the A' Design Award is a highly respected meritocratic competition in which winning designs are judged on pre-established, public evaluation criteria through an anonymous, academic, blind peer-review process. Moreover, nominated works are evaluated anonymously, and jurors are bound by their juror agreement, which makes the accolade fairer and more impartial. Likewise, the preliminary jury phase helps entrants present their work in the best possible light, and submissions are standardized so that entries are compared on merit rather than on presentation before the main judging. Following jury voting, votes are checked for anomalies, scores are standardized and normalized, and results are ranked meritocratically. Because the A' Design Award is meritocratic, ethical and fair, Design What relies on the winners of the A' Design Award to feature good design with confidence.
Copyrights and IPs
Design What completely respects your copyrights, trademarks and intellectual properties. The furniture and lighting designs, products, projects, photographs, renderings, names, logos and trademarks shown on Design What remain the property of the original creators, designers, brands and license holders of each work. Each work is published on Design What for editorial purposes, to inform, to inspire and to give credit where credit is due, and you keep your intellectual properties.
If you are a creator or rights holder of any of the furniture and lighting designs featured on Design What and would like a feature to be credited differently, updated or removed, please use the Design What Contact page and we will act promptly. For the legal framework, please read the Design What Terms and Conditions.
Contact Design What
Questions, ideas, designs or corrections can be sent through the Design What Contact page. To stay informed, join Design What newsletter, and if you have good furniture and lighting designs to share, submit your design to Design What.