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Gridliners Awards 2026 ceremony
Winners announced live, followed by the Designer of the Year presentation.
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What the programme is doing, what the jury is thinking, and what the winners actually did.
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Why the coordinate is printed on the certificate
Gold is not an award on its own. The design team on putting the group key where a client can read it.
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Article
Credits are read, and they matter later
The archive outlives the cycle. Name the people who did the work.
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News
Public voting opens on the 2026 shortlist
One vote per project per email, confirmed by a code. No account is created.
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Event
Design Talk: type in two scripts
A panel on setting Arabic and Latin together without either one apologising.
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Interview
Drawing an Arabic face for a signage system
Three weights, cut to survive a stencil on steel and a 6pt line on a form.
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Article
Write the brief you were given, not the one you wish you had
A hard problem solved modestly beats an easy problem solved beautifully.
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Article
What the 2026 entries say about design in the Gulf
More signage, more Arabic type commissioning, fewer imported systems.
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Interview
Packaging that had to ship before it had to photograph
A coffee pack designed around a courier, not a shelf.
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Article
Type that survives production
A specimen proves an intention. A print sheet proves a decision.
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News
The 2026 ceremony moves to Dubai Design District
A larger hall, and the winners' exhibition runs for a week afterwards.
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Interview
An identity drawn from tide tables and berth numbers
Harbour Line's designer on finding a system inside an operations manual.
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