Dezeen has changed. We've revamped our site to make it as beautiful as the architecture and design projects we write about.
We're not really calling this a redesign ? it's more an iteration of the look we first introduced in 2007 and which, save for a few minor tweaks and upgrades, remained largely unchanged for nine years.
We know ? it's long overdue. People have been forever asking us when we're going to move on from our cluttered, narrow grid and teeny images.
The truth is, we've tried several times over the years with various design firms ? including some famous ones ? but we never liked what they produced for us. We twice spent a lot of time and money on radical redesigns that we ended up throwing away.
The new Dezeen homepage features a highlights slider at the top, which will display stories we think are the most interesting Meanwhile our audience has been growing strongly year on year, so we don't appear to have suffered too much from our tardiness.
Third time lucky
This time, we think we've got it right. For our third try, instead of going to yet another fancy web studio, we returned to the brilliant Swiss designer and typographer Micha Weidmann, who created our logo and original layout in 2007, when we first moved away from the generic WordPress template we launched with the previous year.
For the development side we worked with Bill Kingston and his team at Den Creative, who have painstakingly built the new site from the ground up and tolerated our many changes...