Nat Barker
Nat is the features editor of Dezeen.
He qualified as an NCTJ Gold Standard journalist in 2016 and spent five years working for trade magazine Inside Housing. He has also presented a podcast called Fintech Mix.
Nat was named New Journalist of the Year at the IBP Awards in 2017 and Journalist of the Year at the same event in 2018. He was included on PPA's 30 Under 30 list of rising stars in the published media industry in 2020. In 2024, he won Best Specialist Writer at the BSME Talent Awards. In 2025, he was named Architectural Journalist of the Year at the IBP Awards.
Stories by Nat Barker
Pixelated rear screen allows Nothing Phone (3) users to play spin the bottle
Eight stools that challenge conventional furniture design
Forensic Architecture’s normal approach “meaningless” in face of Gaza war says Eyal Weizman
Ten houses that it’s hard to believe are actually houses
“I was shocked” by dominance of luxury brands in Milan says Philippe Starck
What car brands are doing at Milan design week 2025
Nine designs by Britain’s forgotten queen of art deco
Hunt for “personality” causing art deco sales to triple says Vinterior founder
Eight brutalist kitchens where cooking meets concrete
Nine living rooms that use Ligne Roset’s famous Togo sofa
One in five architecture and design workers planning to leave industry
Mikhail Riches’s Goldsmith Street was the most significant building of 2019
Stufish builds dance-music colosseum for Adriatic Sound Festival
How Norman Foster became the most successful architect in history
Dezeen’s top five houses of April 2025
Dezeen’s A to Z of art deco
Amazon-funded MAD installation hit with student protest at Milan design week
Samuel Ross creates waterfall installation for “peace and contemplation” in Milan
A really quick guide to art deco
“Depressed furniture” and Madagascan totem stools among highlights from Design Biennale Rotterdam
Dezeen survey points to “broken” architecture and design industry
Shocking personal stories from Dezeen’s working-conditions survey
