I.D. (magazine)

For the British fashion magazine, see i-D.

I.D. (The International Design Magazine) was a magazine covering the art, business, and culture of design. It was published eight times a year by F+W Media.^[1][2]

I.D.

Categories	Architecture
Frequency	Eight times a year
Founded	1954
Final issue	2010
Company	F+W Media
Country	United States
ISSN	0894-5373

History

I.D. was founded in 1954^[3][4] as Industrial Design. The name was later abbreviated to an initialism; in the 1980s, the initials came to stand for International Design to reflect the magazine's broadened scope.^[5]

Since 1954, the magazine published the Annual Design Review, a juried design competition curated by I.D. staff and industry practitioners.^[6]

I.D. won five National Magazine Awards: three for General Excellence (1995, 1997, 1999), one for Design (1997), and one for Special Interests (2000).^[7][8]

The last issue of I.D. was published in January/February 2010.^[9][10]

In June 2011, I.D. magazine was re-launched online in partnership with Behance.^[3] The new I.D. magazine featured user-submitted designs that were curated to offer examples of innovative work happening today.

By March 2016, the magazine's website had been shut down.