Smashing Magazine is an online magazine dedicated to

web developers A web developer is a programmer who develops World Wide Web applications using a client–server model. The applications typically use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in the client, and any general-purpose programming language in the server. is used f ...

and

web design Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design; user interface design (UI design); authoring, including standardised code a ...

ers around the world. It was founded in 2006 b
Sven Lennartz
(co-founder) an
Vitaly Friedman
(editor-in-chief) as part of the German-based Smashing Media AG. Since 2012, it also runs web design conferences in Europe and North America, known a
SmashingConf
(founded by Vitaly Friedman and Marc Thiele). Smashing Magazine is one of the most active and largest publishers of web development resources.

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has ranked Smashing Magazine as one of the best places for web developers to find jobs.

Content

Articles Smashing magazine has over three million page views per month, and claims to be one of the world's most popular and highly regarded magazines in the area of web design and web development. Topics include

graphic design Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdiscipli ...

, and user experience. The content is primarily targeted toward advanced web design and development professionals. Conferences Smashing Magazine hosts four annual conferences, founded in 2012 by Marc Thiele and Vitaly Friedmann, that take place in

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

, and

Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...

. Each conference consists of two-day, single-track talks and workshops featuring prominent members of the industry discussing web design trends and insights. Notable speakers include

Stefan Sagmeister Stefan Sagmeister (born August 6, 1962) is an Austrian graphic designer, storytelling, storyteller, and typographer based in New York City. In 1993, Sagmeister founded his company, Sagmeister Inc., to create designs for the music industry. He has ...

Jon Burgerman Jon Burgerman is an English artist living in, New York, US. Life and work Jon Burgerman studied art foundation in Bournville, Birmingham, England. He graduated in fine art from Nottingham Trent University in 2001. In 2008, he appeared as a ...

Peter Sunde Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (born 13 September 1978), alias brokep, is a Swedish entrepreneur and politician. Sunde is of Norwegian and Finnish ancestry. He is best known for being a co-founder and ex-spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent s ...

, and

Daniel Burka Daniel Burka (born December 17, 1978 in Canada) is best known as the former creative director for website Digg and as a design partner at GV. He is also a founding partner at the web design company ''silverorange'' based in Charlottetown, Prin ...

. Library On November 27, 2012, Smashing Magazine started their Smashing Library, containing more than 60 eBooks and videos on web design. The bundle provides new, curated content on design best practices and coding techniques, as well as access to the publication's most recent back-catalogue. The eBooks are available in PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle. Newsletter Highlights of the magazine are collated bi-monthly to form an email newsletter. As of August 2022, the newsletter has over 176,000 subscribers.

Awards and recognition

In 2010, Smashing Magazine was the recipient of a

Shorty Awards The Shorty Awards (also known as “The Shortys”) honors the most innovative work globally in digital and social media by brands, agencies, nonprofits and creators. The Shortys’ mission is to celebrate, inspire and push the boundaries of exce ...

for its notable contribution to the field of design. It also was the winner of the .net Awards in 2008 in the category "Best Blog".

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External links

Official website

Smashing Library

Smashing Conference

Smashing Newsletter
Technology websites Internet properties established in 2006 German news websites Shorty Award winners