Design Week magazine closing "with immediate effect" after 38 years
Online design magazine Design Week is to cease publication with the website due to be taken offline in mid-January.
The publication, which is focused on the business of design, announced the decision with a statement on its website on 22 December stating that its publisher had decided to close the publication.
"Design Week is ceasing publication with immediate effect," said the statement.
"Design Week's parent company, Centaur, has made the decision to close the publication as its strategy shifts towards its 'core audience of marketers, and focuses on training, information, and intelligence'."
According to the statement, Design Week will continue to be online until 19 January, with a series of articles looking "back at Design Week's achievements" set to be published early this January. Closure "not entirely unexpected"
Launched in 1986 by writer Jeremy Myerson, who is now professor emeritus at the Royal College of Art, the publication was the first weekly magazine in the UK aimed at designers and their clients.
Responding to the news that the magazine was closing, Myerson said it "was disappointing news to hear on a personal level", but "not entirely unexpected".
Design Week will cease publishing in January
Design Week published its last physical edition in 2011, becoming a digital-only publication after that.
"Design Week really belonged to a world of black and white print, manual typewriters and paste-up gal...
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