DANISH™

It has just been announced, on the site and through their newsletter, that DANISH™ is to close.

They have a distinct, clean and well laid-out site with carefully edited and well-edited text in English - this is a Danish site - and they covered general design topics along with current and ongoing news about design and architecture; assessments of design and architecture studios and reviews of specific new products.

The team were, I believe, four or five people. They established the site with initial grants but then moved over to a financial model that asked design companies to subscribe - rather than relying on reader subscriptions or one-off advertising revenue.

It’s a great loss and shows just how difficult it is to establish and maintain a serious design site with high editorial standards.

The newsletter indicated that material from the site will continue to be available and it is well worth consulting because the articles and reviews set a standard for serious design journalism on line that too few have so far matched.

DANISH™