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'''Design Observer''' is a website devoted to a range of [[design]] topics including [[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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-135804791.html|title=PRIVATE VIEW: Time we blogged-on.(web logs on web design)|last=Shaughnessy|first=Adrian|date=1 September 2005|publisher=Design Week {{Subscription required|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}|accessdate=4 September 2012}}</ref>: [[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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-142905220.html|title=Blogs: Graphic Design|date=6 March 2006|publisher=Creative Review {{Subscription required|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}|accessdate=4 September 2012}}</ref>
Frequent contributors include [[Steven Heller (graphic design)|Steven Heller]], Adrian Shaughnessy, Dmitri Siegel, [[Alice Twemlow]], [[Tom Vanderbilt]], [[Lorraine Wild]], [[Rob Walker (journalist)|Rob Walker]], Alexandra Lange, Mark Lamster, [[John Thackara]], and Julie Lasky.
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