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
Pernilla Ohrstedt demonstrates how “our world will be captured in digital form”
Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert installs “simple, geometric shapes” at London’s V&A
Keiichi Matsuda to “explore the future of the city” in new film
Car design and production could “start to show biological adaptation and mutation”
Lucy McRae experiments with negative pressure to “prep humans to go to space”
Behind the scenes with Dominic Wilcox making his “stained-glass driverless car”
Randy Slavin paints with light to create Cobra Starship’s Never Been In Love music video
Dezeen Music Project: Run by Kinds.
NYSU imitates classic movies in Philip Selway’s Coming Up For Air music video
Dezeen Music Project: K.I.M.K. by Y’Skid
MAD wants to “invent a new typology” for high-rise architecture, says Ma Yansong
Ron Arad: “The Rover chair sucked me into the world of design”
Matthew Plummer-Fernandez to present “personalised avatars for your vehicle”
RIBA Regent Street Windows Project 2014 returns with 15 new installations
Dezeen Music Project: Sunday by Jo Noon
Biennale Interieur “gives chances to a new generation of designers”
Dezeen Music Project: Special by Rainy Piano
Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert to create mouth-blown glass installation at the V&A
With smart textiles we can “download new colours or patterns” to our clothes
Advances in digital interfaces will lead to a “new beginning in music”
Personalised “bubbles of heat” could replace inefficient central heating
Dezeen Music Project: Ayub by Floyd Lavine
