Dezeen Wire: Dezeen has been shortlisted for this year’s Association of Online Publishers Awards in the Website – Business 2012 and Digital Publisher – Business 2012 categories. Winners will be announced on 19 July. See the full shortlist here.
Dezeen Wire: Dezeen is one of the top five design sites in the world, according to business magazine Forbes.com. More »
Dezeen Wire: architecture and design blog Designitecture have published an update to YAMoPo, a list of the most popular architecture and design websites in the world, and have ranked Dezeen in sixth place. See the results in full here.
The YAMoPo (Yet Another Most Popular) list was originally created by architecture blog Archdaily but hadn’t been revised since 2009.
Dezeen Wire: following the news that esteemed architecture critic Paul Goldberger has left The New Yorker magazine for a position at Vanity Fair, the New York Observer‘s real estate correspondent Matt Chaban claims that the current lack of a replacement for Mr. Goldberger is symptomatic of a decline in quality architecture criticism throughout the printed media - New York Observer
Dezeen Wire: Dezeen has been named #01 in the Best Blogs list of top 50 design blogs. See the full list here.
Dezeen Wire: Dezeen’s editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs is among those interviewed by design editor Alyn Griffiths for this month’s Port Magazine in a feature entitled RIP CMYK, charting the shift from paper to pixels in design journalism and asking why it works. Read the full article here.
Dezeen Wire: Grafik magazine is to cease publication once again. The graphic design magazine only reopened under new ownership in February this year after its previous owners went into administration in June 2010.
Read a statement from the magazine’s editorial team and owners Woodbridge & Rees here and read critic Rick Poynor’s take on the news here.
Dezeen is proud to have been included in a list of the top 100 “people who count” in the design world in the latest issue of French magazine Architectural Digest. More »
Dezeenwire: Spanish architecture and design book publisher ACTAR has bought Swiss publisher Birkhäuser. More details from Actar below: More »
Milan 09: The Incidental is a Twitter/Flickr/blog hybrid reporting live from Milan all this week and then publishing the highlights in a daily print sheet, which is distributed round the city. Thursday’s print version is downloadable here. The cartoon above is by Oscar.
Graphic designers Alexander Boxill have redesigned architecture magazine the Architectural Review, which relaunches this month. More »
My Secret Heart is a touring installation created by video artists Flat-e, composer Mira Calix and sound designer Dave Sheppard, featuring a film projected onto a 360º screen. More »
Design Miami 08: Dezeen has teamed up with Design Miami and Fendi to present a series of live chat shows with leading international designers in Miami next week. More »
Hello everyone, it’s our second birthday today – and we’re proud to announce that last month we got over one million readers for the first time! As you can see from the graph above, we got 1,041,282 unique visitors during October (source: www.statcounter.com).
Thanks to all our readers. And please support us by advertising and by using our Dezeenjobs recruitment site! After all, how else can you reach a global audience of over one million design-savvy people?
In the first of what we hope will become a regular series of debates, we want our readers to tell us if, and how, we should clamp down on the types of comments we allow people post on our stories. More »