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Our movie about Philips’ Lumiblade OLED lighting is shortlisted in the Technology category of the Webby Awards! Vote for us to win the People’s Voice award.

Our movie with Philips Lumiblade (below) explores how glowing walls, windows and furniture will replace light bulbs in homes as OLED technology advances – read more and watch a larger version of the movie here.

Cast your vote to help us win the People’s Voice award »

We’ve also been selected as an Official Honoree in both the Variety category for our Dezeen Studio in Milan project and the Blog – Business category.

The Webby Awards are the leading international awards honouring excellence on the internet. The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences selects the winners of the Webby Awards, while the public votes for the Webby People’s Voice Awards.

Voting closes on 25 April. All Webby Award winners will be announced on 30 April and awarded at the 17th Annual Webby Awards in New York City on 21 May. Wish us luck!

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Stockholm 2013: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will moderate a talk about the future of designers and commerce at the Form Us With Love market tomorrow evening as part of Stockholm Design Week.

Form Us With Love will host the panel discussion at their exhibition at Birger Jarlsgatan 15, Stockholm from 6pm – 6:45pm on 5 February.

Fairs will lead the discussion titled Commerce, Communication and Inspiration, between Form Us With Love, Tictail co-founder Siavash Ghorbani, One Nordic CEO Joel Roos, designer Karin Wallenbeck and Residence editor-in-chief Hanna Nova Beatrice.

Nova Beatrice’s new book Behind the Scenes – Stories from the Design Industry will be launched the same day and includes contributions from Fairs and other established design writers.

Themes from the book will also be discussed by Nova Beatrice, Fairs and Strelka Press director Justin McGuirk in a talk moderated by Disegno editor-in-chief Johanna Agerman Ross called Designology – the art of communicating design, at 2:45pm on 5 February during The Hello! Show at Stockholm Furniture Fair.

Form Us With Love will launch tiered spun-metal lamps during Stockholm Design Week, which takes place until 10 February – see all our coverage of the event so far here.

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Dezeen has just launched World Design Guide, an online guide to the key architecture and design events around the world in 2013.

Despite the proliferation of design weeks, fairs, conferences and festivals around the world, there has never been a quick, one-stop guide to the best of them – until now.

To kickstart World Design Guide, we’ve picked out the 40 best events in the design calendar and plotted them on a map of the world.

Events can be searched by month, by location or by name, and you can zoom in to see the precise venue where they take place. Each event has a short text summary plus a link to the event’s own website and Dezeen’s coverage of past events, where relevant. The responsive design of the site means it works on all devices.

It’s quite simple at the moment but over time we’ll be adding more content and functionality, including reviews and travel information. We’d be happy to receive feedback on how we can improve it! Visit www.worlddesignguide.com or use window above to try it out and email hello@worlddesignguide.com or use the comment section below to tell us what you think.

World Design Guide is part of a wider Dezeen project to use maps to help our readers find the content they need. It comes after our collaboration with Google on Field Trip, a new geo-publishing app that pushes our content to your smartphone to let you know more about the buildings, interiors, landscapes and so on that are around you at any given time.

Last September we published a map of events at the London Design Festival which was viewed by over 500,000 people in a week. It’s now the highest ranking map of the festival on Google. Earlier last year we mapped all the architecture and design studios in the east London borough of Hackney as part of our Designed in Hackney project. This map has been viewed over 2.5 million times.

We’re working on more map-based apps and tools that we hope to launch in the coming months.

www.worlddesignguide.com

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News: Dezeen featured in Apple‘s launch of the iPhone 5 today and makes an appearance in the movie demonstrating the new product.

Our homepage was shown in a video demonstration of the new device as part of a presentation by Apple CEO Tim Cook and colleagues at the Yerba Buena Arts Center in San Francisco.

The movie, which is now up on Apple’s website, starts with an introduction by Apple vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive, and the sequence featuring Dezeen starts at 01.16.

The sequence begins with an iPhone 5 user opening an email titled “Great website” which contains the message: “I just came across http://www.dezeen.com/ and I really think you would enjoy it. It has a lot of the same architectural styles that you love. Dave”.

The user then clicks on the link in the email and is taken to our homepage while Apple senior vice president Bob Mansfield describes how LTE technology allows “really fast downloads over your cellular network”.

After this the user goes to their bookmarks page, which interestingly already contains Dezeen, and navigates to a different site.

Apple contacted Dezeen earlier this year asking us to create a bespoke version of our home page and an editorial page for a possible future marketing campaign. Apple specified that both had to be free of external advertisements and social media buttons, but they did not give any details of how the pages might be used.

The pages we created for us by our long-term collaborators Zerofee. Besides the iPhone versions of Dezeen, we also created billboard-sized pages that may, or may not, appear in Apple Stores and outdoor advertising hoardings as part of the marketing push for the iPhone 5.

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Dezeen Wire: Dezeen has been named Digital Business Publisher of the Year 2012 by the Association of Online Publishers.

Judges of the AOP 2012 Awards described Dezeen as “A smart entrepreneurial brand, with beautifully designed products – from websites to pop-up shops.  Strong evidence of experimentation, fast growing revenue and audience”.

The awards were announced last night at a ceremony at the Roundhouse in London. See all the winners here.

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