Design Observer
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| Available in | English |
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| Owner | Observer Omnimedia |
| Created by | Rick Poynor, Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel |
| Editor | William Drenttel |
| URL | designobserver |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | October 2003 |
Design Observer is a website devoted to a range of design topics including graphic design, social innovation, urbanism, popular culture, and criticism.[1] The content of the site includes essays, articles, reviews, blog posts, and peer reviewed scholarship. It is the host of the architecture and urban design publication Places (formerly a print academic journal) and the podcast Design Matters with Debbie Millman.[2]
Four prominent design writers founded the site in October 2003:[3] Rick Poynor was the founder and first editor of London-based Eye magazine, in addition to being author of many books; Michael Bierut[4] is a partner in the New York office of Pentagram and is a design critic at Yale School of Art; Jessica Helfand is also a critic at Yale and is author of numerous books; William Drenttel is a designer, critic and partner with Jessica Helfand of Winterhouse Studios in Connecticut.[5]
Frequent contributors include Steven Heller, John Foster, Adrian Shaughnessy, Dmitri Siegel, Alice Twemlow, Tom Vanderbilt, Lorraine Wild, Rob Walker, Alexandra Lange, Mark Lamster, John Thackara, and Julie Lasky.
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- ^ Evans, Lisa (20 October 2011). "TYPO London conference livestream". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
- ^ "Blogs: Graphic Design". Creative Review – via HighBeam Research (subscription required) . 6 March 2006. Retrieved 4 September 2012.