''Design Week'' is a UK-based website, formerly a magazine for the design industry. It was first published in October 1986 by Centaur Communications. According to the

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primary circulation for 2007 was 8,074. In 2011, ''Design Week'' became a digital-only publication. On 22 January 2019, Centaur Media announced that Design Week had become part of Xeim, a rebranded marketing division.

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''Design Week'' is a business publication as distinct from design-focused publications like '' Wallpaper'' and ''

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.'' Its competitors include ''

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'' and '' Marketing Week''. Its readers come from commercial

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disciplines which range from

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, products and packaging to graphics,

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, exhibitions and digital. The founding editor of ''Design Week'' was Jeremy Myerson and the title was edited for more than 20 years by Lynda Relph-Knight. The current editor is Tom Banks. Back issues to 1995 include contemporary design news and interviews/retrospectives of noteworthy but not widely known designers since 1960, e.g. Raymond Hawkey and

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