Designboom
{{short description|Web magazine for industrial design}}
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| author = Birgit Lohmann
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| editor = Sofia Lekka Angelopoulou (since 2023)
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Designboom (stylized as designboom) is a daily web magazine headquartered in Milan and covering the fields of industrial design, architecture, and art internationally.
History
Launched in 1999, the publication was the first web magazine to focus on industrial design, architecture, and art internationally.
In 2010, designboom china was launched.{{Cite web |last=designboom |first=andrea chin I. |date=2014-06-19 |title=designboom takes off in china! |url=https://www.designboom.com/design/designboom-china-06-19-2014/ |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=designboom {{!}} architecture & design magazine |language=en}} In 2012, designboom and Architonic formed a strategic alliance to pool their digital resources.{{Cite web |title=Architonic and Designboom launch strategic alliance |url=https://www.architonic.com/en/story/architonic-architonic-and-designboom-launch-strategic-alliance/7000704 |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=Architonic |language=en}} In 2017, designboom launched The Design Prize with the Italian magazine Abitare awarding top designers in ten categories.{{Cite web |last=Hanley |first=William |date=2018-03-20 |title=Designboom Opens THE DESIGN PRIZE To Public Voting |url=https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/designboom-opens-design-prize-public-voting/ |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=SURFACE |language=en-US}} In January 2022, designboom was acquired by the Architonic/ArchDaily group (owned by the Swiss media group NZZ).{{Cite web |date=2022-01-13 |title=Designboom acquired by rival architecture websites Architonic and ArchDaily |url=https://www.dezeen.com/2022/01/13/designboom-acquired-architonic-archdaily/ |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=Dezeen |language=en}} In February 2023, Sofia Lekka Angelopoulou replaced Birgit Lohmann as editor-in-chief of designboom.{{Cite web |last=Weismüller |first=Ulla |date=2023-02-09 |title=Birgit Lohmann is no longer designbooms editor-in-chief |url=https://ndion.de/en/birgit-lohmann-is-no-longer-designbooms-editor-in-chief/ |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=ndion |language=en-GB}}
Description
Designboom features interviews and firsthand studio visits with designers and architects, in addition to coverage of international design fairs and new projects. Newsletters are published daily.
Designboom runs several international design competitions each year, in partnership with large companies.[http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/14022/designboom-competitions.html Designboom competitions] In addition, Designboom hosts young designers "marts" at a range of furniture and design fairs, an exhibition format that it introduced in 2005 at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City, and which has since become an industry standard.Silverberg, Michael, [http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20100518/liveicff-designboom-mart Live@ICFF: Designboom Mart], Metropolis, 18 May 2010[http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/11793/designboom-marts.html Designboom marts]
In 2012, Designboom itself became a subject of media attention for its defense of Takeshi Miyakawa when the artist was arrested and held on Riker's Island for a controversial street installation in New York City.Green, Penelope, [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/garden/designer-takeshi-miyakawa-returns-from-rikers-island.html?pagewanted=all A Would-Be Christo’s Hard Lesson], The New York Times, 6 June 2012 Miyakawa was collaborating with Designboom on a lighting installation for the International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the time.[http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/21130/icff-designboom-mart-new-york-2012.html ICFF designboom mart New York 2012], Designboom, 21 May 2012
Awards
- 2007: The Style & Design 100 in the "blogwatch" category by Time magazine{{Cite magazine |date=2007 |title=The Style & Design 100 |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0%2C29569%2C1609195%2C00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026155521/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1609195,00.html |archive-date=26 October 2009 |access-date=12 April 2024 |magazine=Time}}
References
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External links
- {{official|https://www.designboom.com/}}
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Category:Online magazines published in the United States
Category:Magazines established in 1999