As Director of Dubai Design Week, Natasha Carella is redefining the region’s creative landscape, shaping a reflective new vision that positions design as both a cultural and civic force. Speaking exclusively to The Fluxx, she discusses the 2025 edition’s highlights.

Ahead of this year’s edition, Mette Degn-Christensen speaks to The Fluxx about Downtown Design’s evolving role in the global design calendar, what makes Dubai such a dynamic meeting ground, and why the 2025 fair is set to be its most ambitious yet.

Artist Keith Lissner embodies the paradox at the heart of digital art, illusion and reality in constant dialogue. Guided by Edgar Degas’ belief that “art is not what you see, but what you make others see,” and echoing Marcel Duchamp’s reminder that “all art is an illusion,” Lissner crafts digital worlds that challenge perception.

Maye Ruiz has positioned herself at the forefront of Mexico’s creative vanguard. Her creative work reflects a broader movement within contemporary Mexican interior design: a celebration of heritage and handcraft reinterpreted through the lens of modern luxury.

Inside the World of Digital Art — Artist Agent Olya Titova at NEXT Management New York. Here she discusses her work and the exceptional roster of talented digital artists including Keith Lissner and Luca Mainini.

Luca Mainini is a self-taught Italian artist whose practice transforms the familiar language of fashion into something uncanny, surreal, and unforgettable. Known for his loud, bold, and bright collages, Mainini cuts and splices imagery from glossy magazines, subverting glamour to reveal the eccentricities, defects, and raw edges of pop culture.

Laetitia Rouget is a French artist and designer based in Lisbon, whose practice spans ceramics, textiles, print, glassware, and painting. A graduate of Central Saint Martins, London, she began her career in fashion before expanding into a multidisciplinary universe that blends craft, humour, and colour with an unrestrained sense of play.

Not Vanilla: The Brutal Elegance of Rodrigo Vairinhos. Designed by rising creative talents Rodrigo Vairinhos and Ricardo Mendes, this ultra-limited stoneware vase isn’t an object you place quietly in a corner, it commands the room and claws at the senses, whilst beautifully displaying floral designs.

From their North London studio, Six Dots Design is reimagining what contemporary interiors can be. Founded by designer Joseph Ellwood, the studio brings together whimsical aesthetics, sustainable materials, and a distinctly modern point of view.