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'{{More citations needed|date=April 2007}} {{Infobox magazine |title=Print |image_file=Printmag.jpg |image_size=200px |image_caption=January/February 2007 issue. |company= Print Holdings LLC (formerly [[F+W Media]]) |frequency = |paid_circulation=1m |unpaid_circulation=118m |total_circulation=7272mm` |language=[[English language|English]] |category=[[Graphic design]] |firstdate= June 1940 |finaldate= December 2017 |country=[[United States]] |based= |website={{url|printmag.com}} |issn= }} '''''Print''''' is an American design and culture website that began as '''''Print, A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts''','' in 1940,<ref>{{cite news|title=14 Essential Magazines for Graphic Designers|url=http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/01/14-essential-magazines-for-graphic-designers/|accessdate=22 August 2016|work=Web Designer Depot|date=14 January 2009}}</ref> and continued publishing a physical edition through the end of 2017 as ''Print''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.printmag.com/steven-brower/print-magazine-farewell/|title=The End of PRINT Magazine as We Know it and a New Beginning - PRINT|date=2018-01-05|website=Print Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-14}}</ref> ''Print''<nowiki/>'s stated mission is "to build a dialogue about design by detailing the intersections of art and culture. Rather than focusing on the how-to of design, ''Print'' covers the why—why the world of design looks the way it does, how it has evolved, and why the way it looks matters."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.printmag.com/about-us/|title=About Us|website=Print Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-14}}</ref> As a printed publication, ''Print'' was a general-interest magazine, written by cultural reporters and critics who looked at design in its social, political, and historical contexts, from newspapers and book covers to Web-based motion graphics, from corporate branding to indie-rock posters. During its run, ''Print'' won five National Magazine Awards<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.printmag.com/steven-brower/print-magazine-farewell/|title=The End of PRINT Magazine as We Know it and a New Beginning - PRINT|date=2018-01-05|website=Print Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-14}}</ref> and a number of Folio: Eddies, including Best Full Issue in its final year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foliomag.com/2017-folio-eddie-award-winners/3/|title=2017 Folio: Eddie Award Winners - Page 3 of 14|website=Folio:|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-14}}</ref> ''Print'' ceased publication in 2017, with a promise to focus the brand on "a robust and thriving online community."<ref>http://www.printmag.com/regional-design-annual/print-magazine-winter-2017-2018-regional-design-awards/</ref> Its publisher, F+W Media, declared bankruptcy in 2019 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonysilber/2019/03/11/fw-media-citing-debt-decline-and-mismanagement-files-for-bankruptcy-protection/|title=F+W Media, Citing Debt, Decline And Mismanagement, Files For Bankruptcy Protection|last=Silber|first=Tony|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2020-02-14}}</ref>, and a group of independent partners subsequently purchased PRINT from the company that arose out of F+W, Peak Media Properties.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foliomag.com/peak-media-spins-off-fw-bankruptcy/|title=Peak Media Spins Off From F+W Bankruptcy|date=2019-07-30|website=Folio:|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-14}}</ref> ==Founding== The journal was founded by [[William Edwin Rudge]] to demonstrate “the far reaching importance of the graphic arts” including art prints, commercial printing, wallpaper, etc. Contents were eclectic covering typography, book making, book printing, fine prints as well as the trade journal aspects of printing candy bar wrappers.<ref>Editor’s forward Vol 1, #1 (Jun 1940)</ref> Initially the publication included original prints such as the frontispiece for Vol 1, #1 (Jun 1940) a two color woodcut by Hans Alexander Mueller and Vol 1, #3 (December 1940) a black and white wood engraving by [[Paul Landacre]]. By Volume 8 (1953) the focus of the periodical had shifted to a trade journal. ==Name changes== * Vol 1, #1 (Jun 1940) ''Print: A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts'' * Vol 3, #2 (Summer 1942) combined with ''The Printing Art. An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of the Art of Printing and of the Allied Arts'' but continued under ''Print: A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts'' ===Until=== * Vol 7, #1 (Aug 1951) ''Print'': combining: ''Print, A Quarterly Journal of Graphic Arts'', Vol. VII, Number 1 and ''The Print Collector's Quarterly'', Volume XXX, Number 4. * Vol 7, #2 (Jan 1952) ''Print, The Magazine of the Graphic Arts'' - until * Vol 9, #2 (Oct/Nov 1954) ''Print'' - until * Vol 11, #4 (Jan/Feb 1958) ''Print, The Magazine of Visual Communication'' - until * Vol 12, #1 (July/Aug 1958) ''Print, America's Graphic Design Magazine'' at least until May/June 2005 Vol 59, #3. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.artistarchive.com/List/PeriodicalList.aspx Artistarchive.com] *[http://www.printmag.com ''Print'' web site] {{F W Media}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Print, A Quarterly Journal Of The Graphic Arts}} [[Category:American arts magazines]] [[Category:American quarterly magazines]] [[Category:Communication design]] [[Category:Design magazines]] [[Category:Defunct magazines of the United States]] [[Category:Graphic design]] [[Category:Magazines established in 1940]] [[Category:Magazines with year of disestablishment missing]] [[Category:American bimonthly magazines]] {{art-mag-stub}}'