Nike
Sportswear brand Nike fails to qualify for our Dezeen Hot List top 20 by a whisker. With this being an Olympic year, the brand was particularly active, unveiling a raft of new high-performance products at a lavish ceremony in New York in the spring and following this up
Royal College of Art
London's Royal College of Art is our highest-ranking education establishment.
Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst – whose best-known artworks include pickled animals and jewelled skulls – is the final artist on this year's Hot List, thanks to the completion of his Newport Street Gallery in late 2015.
Omnipresent Google pops up all over Dezeen in a variety of guises: as a pioneer of self-driving cars; as a creator of virtual-reality painting software; as a rebranded company with a new logo.
Konstantin Grcic
German industrial designer Konstantin Grcic completes our overall top 100 and comes in at 14 in our design list. A total of 48 different stories about the Munich-based designer were visited by our readers over the year, but the most popular by far was the one featuring the minimal
The Bartlett
The Bartlett – University College London's faculty of the built environment – comes in number two in our schools ranking, with conceptual graduate projects featuring fantastical architectural drawings dominating the top posts about the school.
Uber
After launching in 2009 as a black car service for 100 friends in San Francisco, Uber has transformed the taxi industry and is 94 in our Hot List. It hit the headlines this year after announcing that it is testing driverless car technology and prompting a wider debate about the future of transportation in cities.
TAKA Architects
Torafu Architects
Design Miami
This high-end collectible design fair takes place in Miami Beach every December and has a sister event, Design Miami/Basel, which makes the trip to the Swiss city of Basel every June to coincide with the Art Basel fair.
March Studio
Airbnb
Positioned at 79 in our overall Hot List and 18 in our ranking of brands, rental website Airbnb has changed the way we holiday and design our homes.
Oki Sato/Nendo
It's a surprise to find only one designer in the top 20 of our Hot List. We always knew that architecture was more popular with readers than design, but we didn't realise by quite how much. It's less of a surprise to find Nendo, the Japanese studio headed by
Hassell
Tigg Coll Architects
Nieto Sobejano
CEBRA
Design Academy Eindhoven
Design Academy Eindhoven comes in at number three in our schools list, largely due to the popularity of projects presented at Milan Design Week and Dutch Design Week, which is held each year in Eindhoven to coincide with the school's graduation show.
Fraher Architects
Platform 5
Moroso
Placed at 80 in our overall Hot List and 19 in our ranking of brands is Italian furniture brand Moroso – one of Italy's most influential design brands.
Squire and Partners