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Dezeen is the world's most influential architecture and design magazine. Our mission is simple: to bring you a carefully edited selection of the best architecture, design and interiors projects from around the world, and to set the agenda for the global design community. Dezeen receives over three million visitors every month, and has readers in every corner of the globe. It has over five million social media followers, with 3.2 million Instagram followers and over three million followers on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. It has won over forty awards for publishing excellence including digital publisher of the year, best use of video, best branded entertainment and commercial partnership of the year. Founded in 2006 by Marcus Fairs, Dezeen has an in-house creative team called Dezeen Studio, which produces branded content and events for partner brands. It also has Dezeen Jobs, a recruitment website; Dezeen Awards, which is the most desirable global awards programme in the design sector; the Dezeen Day conference and other services for the design community.

In the June 2026 issue: Practice Matters 2026 + 26th Annual Design Vanguard Winners + Focus on Parks & Recreation + more Founded in 1891, Architectural Record is the #1 source for news and information about architecture and design. Throughout its 134 years, the award-winning publication has fostered readership among architecture, engineering, and design professionals by covering noteworthy and innovative projects in the United States and across the globe. RECORD is the only publication that delivers blanket market coverage of the most active architects designing and specifying for a wide range of building types, with extended exposure to owners and related professionals in the United States and worldwide. Architectural Record’s multi-platform portfolio, which features the highest quality editorial environment, reaches more than 40,000 subscribers and nearly 160,000 unique visitors per month to architecturalrecord.com. We are also the largest provider of continuing education to architects, with over 150,000 AIA-accredited learning units earned each year. Our multi-platform solutions make RECORD available wherever architects are, whenever they want it—in the office, on the road, at the job site, even at home. For active architects in North America, Architectural Record’s reach goes beyond any other.

Dwell’s mission is simple: We champion home design that improves people’s lives. From our daily content on Dwell.com to our social media channels to our celebrated 22-year-old print magazine, we feature new ideas about what a home can and should be, offer expert advice for making your own space a better place to live, and provide a marketplace for the best-designed products available. We reach 40 million people every year by lifting up ideas that make design more sustainable and accessible.