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'''Design Observer''' is a website devoted to a broad range of [[design]] topics with a particular focus onincluding [[graphic design]], [[social innovation]], [[urbanism]], [[popular culture]], and [[criticism]]. The content of the site includes essays, articles, reviews, blog posts, and [[peer review|peer reviewed]] scholarship. It is the host of the [[architecture]] and [[urban design]] publication [[Places (journal)|Places]] (formerly a print [[academic journal]]) and the [[podcast]] ''Design Matters'' with [[Debbie Millman]].

Four prominent design writers founded the site in October 2003: [[Rick Poynor]] was the founder and first editor of London-based ''[[Eye magazine]]'', in addition to being author of many books; [[Michael Beirut]] is a partner in the New York office of [[Pentagram (design studio)|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.