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Ma Yansong/MAD
MAD Architects made headlines this year with its sinuous Harbin Opera House in China, which was captured in a dramatically snowy set of images by the photographer Iwaan Ban. More about Ma Yansong/MAD
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Naoto Fukasawa
This year Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa teamed up with Muji to create a range of hugely popular minimal kitchen appliances and homeware products. He also ventured into architecture to design a prefabricated cabin for the Japanese brand, alongside designers Konstantin Grcic and Jasper Morrison. More about Naoto Fukasawa
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MINI
This was the year that car brand MINI relaunched its visual identity and made the leap into designing lifestyle concepts. It embraced the sharing economy with its Airbnb-style vehicle rent scheme and MINI Living installation in Milan, which explored the idea of shared accommodation as a solution to the housing crisis. More about MINI
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Maison&Objet
Maison&Objet has recently expanded from being a biannual design an interiors fair in Paris to being an international platform with events in Singapore and Miami. More about Maison&Objet
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Benjamin Hubert/Layer
It's been a big 12 months for young British designer Benjamin Hubert, who caused a stir when he declared that furniture was a "saturated" market at Design Indaba in February 2016. More about Benjamin Hubert/Layer
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Rafael Viñoly
This year Rafael Viñoly Architects was primarily in spotlight for building-related debacles. More about Rafael Viñoly
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BMW
Futuristic vehicles were all the rage this year, and German car brand BMW stayed ahead of the curve by embracing hybrid and electric technologies with innovations such as the i8 sports car. It also impressed readers by releasing a shape-shifting concept car that can predict your every move. More about BMW
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro
The last 12 months have been especially fruitful for architectural powerhouse Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The New York City firm unveiled one of its highest-profile projects to date – the highly photogenic Broad Museum, which heralded the start of an architecture boom in Los Angeles. More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro
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Barber and Osgerby
In the year they won the London Design Medal, British design duo Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby piqued our readers' interest as much for their contributions to industry debate as for their projects. More about Barber and Osgerby
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Pritzker Prize
Architecture's equivalent to the Nobel, the Pritzker Prize is awarded every year to an architect or architects whose work demonstrates a consistent and significant contribution to society. Previous winners have included Oscar Niemeyer, Frank Gehry, Peter Zumthor, Richard Rogers and the late Zaha Hadid. More about Pritzker Prize
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Neri&Hu
Richly textured interiors have become a staple product of Chinese-born, Harvard-educated couple Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, and last year was no different. Their Shanghai firm, Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, completed a series of restaurant and shop fit-outs that readers couldn't get enough of. More about Neri&Hu
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Aires Mateus
Portuguese firm Aires Mateus made it into the Hot List despite having just one project published on Dezeen in the last year – an impressive rework of an 18th-century townhouse in Lisbon. More about Aires Mateus
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Kickstarter
Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has evolved in the past year to become a powerful tool for financing architecture and infrastructure projects. This new route to getting large-scale projects off the ground was given a boost when Bjarke Ingels launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a smoke-ring-blowing chimney at a Copenhagen power plant. More about Kickstarter
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Marc Newson
It might be the diversity of Marc Newson's output that has the Dezeen audience hooked. The prolific Australian designer is known for creating the most expensive design object sold at auction – his Lockhead Lounge for £2 million. But he's worked on everything from aircraft cabins to shoes and from concept cars to dish-drying racks. More about Marc Newson
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Lexus
We began writing about Lexus last year, when the Japanese car brand started to release unusual ideas for concept cars. We featured a fully drivable vehicle made entirely out of cardboard and the LF-FC concept model, which was explored further in Italian duo Formafantasma's installation for the brand in Milan this year. More about Lexus
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Patricia Urquiola
Patricia Urquiola is one of few high-profile female designers. She has a whirlwind energy and prolific output, and her influence grows by the year. More about Patricia Urquiola
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Penda
Beijing- and Vienna-based firm Penda has earned plenty of Dezeen column inches since launching in 2013, thanks to inventive concepts that encompass everything from modular structures to landscaped gardens. More about Penda
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Dior
Legendary French fashion house Dior has been busy over the past few years commissioning new stores around the world from a range of different architects. Our readers have noticed, and propelled the 70-year-old brand to number three in our fashion list. More about Dior
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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. More about Airbnb
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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. More about Moroso