Benedict Hobson
Benedict Hobson is co-CEO of Dezeen.
He graduated from the University of Sussex with a first-class English Literature degree in 2009 and joined Dezeen in 2011 after spending two years working for a London architecture firm.
From 2012 to 2018, Benedict led Dezeen's in-house creative team Dezeen Studio, which produces the online magazine's original video content and delivers projects as diverse as print publications, exhibitions, talks and events for prestigious clients around the world.
From 2018 to 2022, he held the position of chief content officer, which saw him oversee Dezeen's editorial, video and social media output, as well as spearheading Dezeen's digital development strategy.
Benedict was appointed as Dezeen's co-CEO together with Wai Shin Li in 2022.
Dezeen has won more than 20 awards under his leadership, including multiple wins at the BSME Awards, PPA Awards, AOP Awards, British Media Awards and IBP National Journalism Awards.
Benedict led Dezeen Studio to beat media giants the Guardian, CNN and Google to a prestigious Webby Award in 2015 and came ahead of Vice, GQ and The Late Late Show to win an AOP Digital Publishing Award for best use of video in 2017.
Dezeen received multiple accolades for the groundbreaking Virtual Design Festival in 2020, won a second Webby Award in 2021 and scooped numerous awards for innovative brand partnerships during his time as chief content officer.
Under Benedict's direction as co-CEO, Dezeen was named editorial brand of the year by the International Building Press and won business publication of the year at the PPA Independent Publisher Awards in 2022.
In 2023, he was named leader of the year for media and the digital industries at The Drum Awards 2023 alongside his fellow co-CEO Wai Shin Li.
Benedict is an experienced public speaker and digital media consultant and has spoken at events in cities including London, Berlin, Beijing and Sao Paulo. He has hosted talks, moderated panel discussions, facilitated workshops and taken part in judging panels around the world.
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Stories by Benedict Hobson
Woods Bagot converts Hawaiian “Modernist masterpiece” into luxury property sales centre
Atelier Van Lieshout’s Statistocrat lamp for Moooi “is a kind of diagram”
SANAA’s reflective Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 “merged into the landscape”
Hypothesis uses plants and discarded objects to create Vivarium restaurant interior
Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion “looked like a spinning top”
Rem Koolhaas’ 2006 Serpentine Gallery pavilion was inflated like a balloon
Hassell’s office building for Medibank is designed to “get people moving”
Thonet launches colourful outdoor versions of iconic Bauhaus chairs
Dezeen’s top 10 architecture and design videos of 2015
Producing the world’s first 3D-printed bridge with robots “is just the beginning”
Moooi’s bar stool version of iconic Carbon Chair is “super light and super strong”
Hella Jongerius’ 2005 Polder Sofa for Vitra is a “collage of textiles”
Jean Nouvel’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in 2010 was “the first to really use colour”
Flanagan Lawrence’s hotel converted from a 1920s cinema has an atrium “like a gold chandelier”
Richard Hutten’s Dombo mug “makes people happy when they see it”
Frank Gehry’s wooden Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in 2008 was “hugely hefty”
Scholten & Baijings’ Ottoman daybed for Moroso “started with the textile”
MdAA creates elevated bedroom “like a treehouse” inside Rome apartment
About Bolon at Heart
One Plus Partnership’s cinema interior resembles the aftermath of an explosion
March Studio created Hotel Hotel lobby and bar by recycling “thousands of pieces of timber”
Martino Gamper’s St Mark chair for Moroso is designed to be made from different materials
