{"id":1616,"date":"2009-12-18T15:08:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T20:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2009-12-18T15:08:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T20:08:53","slug":"good-night-old-friend-id-magazine-closes-after-55-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=1616","title":{"rendered":"Good Night Old Friend: ID Magazine Closes After 55 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/industrial_design_1954_cover_lustig.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/industrial_design_1954_cover_lustig.jpg\" alt=\"industrial_design_1954_cover_lustig\" title=\"industrial_design_1954_cover_lustig\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/picture-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/picture-1.png\" alt=\"picture-1\" title=\"picture-1\" height=\"200\"<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After 55 years, ID Magazine, the grand dame of American design publishing, has shuttered. It&#8217;s a terrible blow to the design world, and especially to those of us in the extended ID family\u2014I was a contributing editor, and wrote for the  the magazine for many years. It was an honor to be a part of such a storied legacy. ID was a labor of love, and labored over by the best designers, editors, and writers in the business. I learned a great deal about a great deal from reading the magazine, and also from working as a contributor. This diversity was what made ID such a compelling magazine\u2014it was about all the disciplines of design, from graphics to architecture to industrial design\u2014but this broad view was also a weakness, at least in the advertising department. When news broke that ID was being put to sleep, I was\u2014bitter irony\u2014at work on a feature on new products designed to prevent death via sleep. My last published piece for the magazine was <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/id_dec_crit_marklamster.pdf\">a review of the collected essays of Paul Goldberger<\/a>, a kind of wistful book that now seems an appropriate finale. My last cover [above at right, adjacent to the magazine&#8217;s first, from 1954 and designed by Alvin Lustig] was titled &#8220;No More Tears.&#8221; I suspect that more than a few tears have been shed this week, and rightly so. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}