''Design Week'' is a UK-based website, and formerly a weekly magazine, for the design industry. It was first published in October 1986 by Centaur Communications. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations primary circulation for 2007 was 8,074. In 2011, ''Design Week'' became a digital-only publication. On 22 January 2019, Centaur Media announced that ''Design Week'' had become part of Xeim, a rebranded marketing division. On 22 December 2023, Centaur Media announced the decision to cease publication of ''Design Week'' with immediate effect. In May 2024, ''Design Week'' was saved from closure after it was acquired by its web development company Interconnect. The website was relaunched with a new design and branding on the 7 October 2024.

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''Design Week'' is a business publication distinct from design-focused publications like '' Wallpaper'' and '' Creative Review.'' Its competitors included '' Brand Republic'' and '' Marketing Week''. Its readers came from commercial

design A design is the concept or proposal for an object, process, or system. The word ''design'' refers to something that is or has been intentionally created by a thinking agent, and is sometimes used to refer to the inherent nature of something ...

disciplines which range from

retail Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is the sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturers, directly or through a wholes ...

, products and packaging to

graphics Graphics () are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of the data, as in design and manufa ...

interiors ''Interiors'' is a 1978 American drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. It stars Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Diane Keaton, E. G. Marshall, Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton, and Sam Waterston. Allen's first ...

exhibitions An exhibition, in the most general sense, is an organized presentation and display of a selection of items. In practice, exhibitions usually occur within a cultural or educational setting such as a museum, art gallery, park, library, exhibition ...

and

digital Digital usually refers to something using discrete digits, often binary digits. Businesses *Digital bank, a form of financial institution *Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) or Digital, a computer company *Digital Research (DR or DRI), a software ...

. The founding editor of ''Design Week'' was Jeremy Myerson and the title was edited for more than 20 years by Lynda Relph-Knight. The final editor whilst the brand was owned by Centaur was Tom Banks. Under its new ownership the editor hired for the relaunch was Rob Alderson. Back issues to 1995 included contemporary design news and interviews/retrospectives of noteworthy but not widely known designers since 1960, e.g. Raymond Hawkey and Frank Stephenson.

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