Marcus Fairs is the current editor of Dezeen, former editor of Icon magazine and the author of the book Twenty-First Century Design.

A furniture design graduate, Fairs wrote for a number of publications including Blueprint, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday and Condé Nast Traveller before launching Icon in 2003. Icon, which is based in London, rapidly established itself as Europe's leading architecture and design publication, winning a string of awards, including Launch of the Year and Designer of the Year.

Fairs himself has won numerous awards, including Journalist of the Year (2002) and Architectural Journalist of the Year (2004).

He also regularly appears on radio and TV, including writing and presenting a documentary about French designer Philippe Starck for the BBC.