Comments on: Design Week: 1986-2023

By: Greg E

Greg E — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:45:21 +0000

Just read this tragic news. Design Week has been a huge part of my professional career. DW and the Guardian’s media supplement on Tuesdays (or was it Wednesdays?) was the cornerstone of my job hunting, and responsible for many enjoyable years freelancing in London.

I still have a full collection of Design Awards printed annuals on my desk that still get used for inspiration. I sincerely hope this website is kept online or archived for the incredible resource it has proven to be.

By: Kevin B

Kevin B — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 08:26:06 +0000

Such a constant throughout my career, from when I got my first copy as a student 25+ yrs ago. Eager for Thursday mornings trip to the newsagent to collect my copy.
Well done and thank you to everyone involved, you certainly inspired this student all those years ago.

By: Laurence Cailbeaux

Laurence Cailbeaux — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 01:12:57 +0000

So sorry to hear that Design Week is ceasing publication! DW provided so much valuable insight and was a great source of inspiration for creatives across the industry. I hope that the rich editorial content and analysis provided over the past 37 years won’t be lost. All the best to the DW team!

By: Mike Dempsey

Mike Dempsey — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 10:37:12 +0000

I must thank Lynda Relph-Knight, who, 23 years ago when she was DW’s editor, encouraged me to write and offered me Design Week as a platform to do whatever I wanted, for which I am eternally grateful to her and DW for setting me off on that path which has continued. The passing of DW as a physical magazine in 2011 was sadly inevitable. Still, over the past few years, the public has rediscovered the importance of material things: vinyl records, roll film and books. Holding and turning the pages of a book or magazine is very much back in vogue. Conversely, the expanding noise and demands of the digital world are exhausting with ever-more online magazines. One of the things I noticed with DW over the past couple of years was a downturn in reader engagement with the many items posted by DW. We live in an age where people don’t want to write anything longer than a sentence; sadly, that is what social media has done to us.

By: DMJ

DMJ — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 13:14:06 +0000

So even the online DW ends on 19 January.
What a shame, though maybe an enterprising publisher type could fire up a successor ‘DW Redux’. Hope so.

By: DMJ

DMJ — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 11:40:34 +0000

The death of any publication is cause for sadness, and this is no exception.
What is not clear is whether the online DW will comtinue.

By: Joe Hance

Joe Hance — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 16:21:44 +0000

In reply to Simon Manchipp. + this!

By: Jamie Ellul

Jamie Ellul — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:34:13 +0000

This is a real shame. I remember flicking through DW mags at art college in order to find the agencies I wanted to apply for placements with back in the 90s. And then once I had a job in design it was a real buzz to get some work featured in the pages – we’d over opening the mag every Thursday. The awards were always a close second to D&AD as ‘ones to win’ in the UK too – expertly judged and full of iconic design work. Thanks to Lynda, Tom and the team for all the support over the years – I’m sure we’ve got more than a few projects off the back of coverage by DW. You’ll be missed.

By: Matt Hopkins

Matt Hopkins — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 10:37:51 +0000

I’m so sorry to hear this news. I’ve read Design Week since the 90’s and it’s been invaluable. Our industry will be so much poorer and less well informed without you. Thank you so much for all of your work over the years.

By: John Lloyd

John Lloyd — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 11:10:31 +0000

I was extremely sorry to hear of the demise of the magazine, Design Week. I was there at very the beginning. In 1986, Jeremy Myerson came to see me at Lloyd Northover with a mock-up of a weekly design journal he was planning to launch; he was to be its first editor. He asked what I thought of the idea and showed me the proposed format. I told him I thought it was a brilliant concept and was bound to be a success; and so it was. Jeremy did an outstanding job. Design Week went on to provide a key focus for the burgeoning British design industry; it championed and promoted the design profession; through its pages, events and gatherings it encouraged debate and supported a sense of community and camaraderie among designers. We at Lloyd Northover were delighted to be featured on its cover on several occasions. Design Week provided a crucial service for the design profession, and will be greatly missed.