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Design Week Closes After 25 Years
I was shocked this morning when I received my Weekly Design Week Magazine. The cover reads ‘THE LAST ISSUE. Design Week Closes After 25 Years’.
At first, I though it was some kind of shock tactic to sell issues, but alas, no. Design week is no longer producing printed magazines. It is now continuing solely online.
Why?
Here’s an extract from the official byline:
This is a sad week for the Design Week team as we publish the last issue of the magazine. The title lives on to deliver daily news about design, but the print version is no more.
It will be 25 years in September since Jeremy Myerson launched the weekly, recognising the role design then a cottage industry might play in UK society and bringing together the community. In the 22 years I have been involved, that community has grown into a tour de force in commerce and culture, despite various recessions, and while the fervor remains from those early days, it is a burgeoning, international business now [...more of the story]
I can’t say I’m surprised, though.
I used to read this publication 10 years years ago on the train to work (for a design studio in Leeds, UK). Now, however, I only read it as I won a free subscription! The magazine cost its readers £3.20 per week, which is nearly £14 per month. Even though there was quality stuff in there, anyone could find the information it contained online anyway — or even just use the Design Week site.
Still, I’m sad to see it go.
I just hope that Creative Review doesn’t fall by the wayside, too.
For more information on this story, and to read the reader comments left, please read the official article: It’s goodbye from Design Week in print, but we’ll still have a digital presence.
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6 Comments
Not enough people these days willing to pay for a print subscription when there’s so much for free online I suppose.
04 Jul 2011 04:07 am Andrew Keir
(Twitter: @andrewkeir)
Andrew → Yeah, I think this is the case. Most people want value for money.
04 Jul 2011 02:07 pm Andrew Kelsall
(Twitter: @AndrewKelsall)
It’s not surprising really, and I can imagine a few others going the same way. I can’t even find Design Week at my local WH Smith and have to pick one up from a larger branch when I can.
Personally I prefer to read a printed publication as opposed to staring at a screen but I’m not keen on paying for something when I can find it online for free.
Recently I was flicking through some design and illustration inspiration books in Waterstones and dismissed most of them instantly since I’d seen the majority of the content online before. Some others that caught my attention but I couldn’t justify spending £20 – £25 per book, particularly when I would imagine I could find the content on a blog somewhere if I looked.
04 Jul 2011 11:07 pm Paul Murray
(Twitter: @pmurraydesign)
Umm,
Let’s be honest. Design Week like MAD used to be good. The magazine has been crap for quite some time, and to be honest the website is pretty shoddy as well.
They used to have great jobs in the mag and now it is just full of churn and burn Rec Con jobs. I reckon that is half the reason they have gone bust. Sites like Creativepool and Brand Republic seem to have got the jump on them now and think it is the beginning of the end.
I’m more interested on whether or not I will get my money back on the subscription.
I doubt it.
08 Jul 2011 03:07 pm Mike
(Twitter: @Twitter)
I just noticed your shirt. You really like the combi-vans, hey?
11 Jul 2011 06:07 am Andrew Keir
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Paul → Yeah, couldn’t agree more. Personally, I like the look and feel of printed stuff more, but now I have an iPad, I think Ill rarely buy books or magazines any more.
Mike → Fortunately, I won my subscription in a competition, but I wouldn’t have subscribed otherwise for the reasons I went into through the post.
As for Brand Republic, I don’t think I’ve read that one before. The only two I used to buy from W H Smiths were DW and Creative Review. I used to love the posters that CW used to have!
Andrew → Yes, I think I have 3 different ones now. I must be collecting them
11 Jul 2011 09:07 pm Andrew Kelsall
(Twitter: @AndrewKelsall)
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