''Designboom'' (stylized as ''designboom'') is a daily web magazine covering the fields of industrial design,

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...

, and art internationally. Launched in 1999, and headquartered in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard language, Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the List of cities in Italy, second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 ...

, the publication was the first web magazine to focus on these fields, and it features interviews and firsthand studio visits of renowned designers and architects, in addition to coverage of international design fairs and new projects. Newsletters are published daily. The online magazine was named one of the top 100 design influencers in the world by ''

Time Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, t ...

'' magazine, as well as one of the top "''Les 100 qui comptent''" ("People who count") by the French magazine '' Architectural Digest''. ''Designboom'' runs several international design competitions each year, in partnership with large companies. 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. In 2010, ''Designboom China'' was launched. 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. Miyakawa was collaborating with ''Designboom'' on a lighting installation for the International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the time.ICFF designboom mart New York 2012
''Designboom'', 21 May 2012

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* {{italic title Online magazines published in the United States Design magazines Magazines established in 1999 Internet properties established in 1999 1999 establishments in Italy