D5 MAG celebrates exceptional projects that redefine creativity and functionality, spotlighting the work of visionary architects, interior designers, industrial innovators, furniture creators, and lighting experts. Through thoughtful interviews, features, and articles, the platform offers insights into the inspiration, design concepts, and bold ideas shaping our world.
At its core, D5 MAG is dedicated to celebrating design as a powerful force for shaping a better future. By highlighting the pivotal role of designers, the magazine advocates for a world influenced by creative problem-solving and purposeful innovation. True to its mission of fostering a global design community, D5 MAG presents projects and ideas from diverse cultures and regions. D5 MAG also prioritizes projects focusing on social impact and ecological responsibility.
D5MAG is part of 3C Group, a leading organization curating and promoting global design. The company’s key mission is to promote design by rewarding great designs, exhibiting, developing designers and artist communities, providing networking opportunities, and promoting the appreciation of design excellence through education, events, outreach, and grants. Developed by Hossein Farmani and Astrid Hébert, 3C Group is a sister company to the Farmani Group, which Hossein Farmani founded. Since 1985, Farmani Group has been a leading organization curating and promoting photography, design, and architecture worldwide.
Compassesworld is considered the most knowledgeable international interior design and architecture platform in the Middle East. An architecture and interior design integrated communication system conceived and operated entirely in the Middle East and in particular in the market of the Gulf Countries.
The network stands out from other international media as it dedicates at least 40% of its editorial to projects conceived and realized in MENA Countries. Targeted towards a diversified audience composed primarily of professionals such as designers, architects, engineers, contractors, developers and other stakeholders (investors, businessmen, suppliers), in addition to amateur readers and fans of architecture and design.
Distributed throughout Southern Africa, Designing Ways reaches an estimated 25,000 targeted readers including architects, specifiers, contractors, decorators, upholsterers, curtain makers, and professionals in the hospitality sector. It provides manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors with a valuable platform to share product updates and industry news. Regular features include Trade Winds, which offers editorial space (150 to 400 words, subject to availability) for supplier news, and Corporate Design, showcasing notable international products and projects. Occasional supplements focus on key sectors such as kitchens, bathrooms, offices, flooring, and lighting, some of which are loop-stitched for future reference.
Designing Ways also brings lifestyle and personality into its pages with features like Chairs of Note, Technically Speaking, What’s HOT!, and Corporate Sketch, where industry leaders answer twenty questions. Other engaging sections include Trailblazer, Tail of the Dog, Designer Profiles, and a food column. Art coverage includes international exhibitions (Around and About) and artist spotlights (Talking About Art), while in-depth articles track global trends in interior design and architecture. Reports on major trade fairs in England and Europe keep readers informed, and On the Terrace highlights outdoor living suited to the sunny African climate.
SPACE is a beautifully presented and aspirational design magazine. Created to provide industry professionals with a window into the exciting and continually developing world of international hotel design, SPACE is regarded as an authority within the interior design and architectural circuit.
Produced six times a year by the publishers of Hotel Spec, the world’s leading resource guide to hotel design, architecture and development, SPACE is a natural extension to this iconic and globally recognised brand.
Each issue of SPACE looks at a range of luxury hotel projects from around the world, presenting ground-breaking ideas, innovative architecture, and design creativity. In addition to this, SPACE talks to the individuals responsible for their commissioning and delivery within interviews with the world’s most influential designers and hoteliers.
SPACE also examines the factors and commercial realities that determine hotel design and development, and providies expert commentary and thought-leadership on the industry’s most pressing topics.