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.
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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 about Dezeen in Architectural Digest's top 100
Dezeenwire: Spanish architecture and design book publisher ACTAR has bought Swiss publisher Birkhäuser. More details from Actar below: More about ACTAR buys Birkhäuser
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.
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Graphic designers Alexander Boxill have redesigned architecture magazine the Architectural Review, which relaunches this month. More about Architectural Review redesign by Alexander Boxill
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 about My Secret Heart by Flat-e, Mira Calix and Dave Sheppard
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 about Dezeen at Design Miami
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?
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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 about Dezeen debate: should we block negative comments?
If you've noticed that Dezeen is a bit slow to load at the moment, here's why - our traffic has grown dramatically over the last couple of months with almost a million readers last month. More about Dezeen traffic report
Dezeen's top ten: this month's top ten features the most popular stories about student work that have been on Dezeen. More about Dezeen’s top ten: student projects
Announcing our first print venture: Dezeen and graphic designer Micha Weidmann Studio are publishing the official newspaper and guide to Tokyo Designers Week 2008 - and if you're exhibiting in one of the official TDW events including 100% Design Tokyo we want to hear from you. More about Dezeen at Tokyo Designers Week
Dezeen's top ten: for this month's installment of stories from our archives, here's a roundup of the ten stories about interiors that have been most viewed since Dezeen launched. More about Dezeen’s top ten: interiors
Dezeen's top ten: our latest monthly top ten rounds up the Dezeen stories that have attracted the most comments from readers since we launched: More about Dezeen's top ten: stories with most comments
The people at Archdaily have compiled a list of the most popular architecture and design websites in the world - and Dezeen is at number 3! More about Dezeen on YAMoPo
Here are a few stills from a short film by Squint/Opera that illustrates proposals for urban improvements in Abu Dhabi until 2030. More about Plan Abu Dhabi 2030 film by Squint/Opera
Yay! Dezeen is featured in The Design 100 - Time magazine's guide to "The people and ideas behind today's most influential design". More about Dezeen in Time magazine's Design 100