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READER FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
(1) What is Architectural Products?
(2) Who owns Architectural Products?
(3) Why products only?
(4) Where do you get your editorial for Architectural Products?
(5) Who Reads Architectural Products and why?
(6) Don’t the other magazines cover products?
(7) What are readers saying about AP?
(8) Can you assist with my Distance Learning efforts?
(9) Do you engage in any CEU Conferencing?
(1) What is Architectural Products?
Architectural Products is the first products-only magazine for the architectural design community.
Specifically, AP is solely focused on providing product and product application information to architects, designers and product specifiers involved in commercial and institutional building design.
(2) Who owns Architectural Products?
Architectural Products is owned by Construction Business Media, LLC, an independent media company based in the Chicago area. Gary Redmond and Tim Shea, the owners, have over 40 years of combined publishing experience with extensive work in the construction market for such companies as Penton Media, Hanley-Wood Publishing, and McGraw-Hill Construction on such titles and properties as Progressive Architecture, Builder, Remodeling, Building Products, Architectural Record, Residential Architect, Design-Build, ENR, Sweet’s and F.W. Dodge.
(3) Why products only?
The short answers are:
Because architects love products
Because there isn’t a magazine like this in the market
The long answer is driven by the process of design itself: architectural firms (design firms) are responsible for creating (or recreating) a structure based on the needs of an owner. Architectural Products magazine is all about products … and is unique in the marketplace: We’re totally product-focused; readers are able to browse by picture, read the brief product editorial and seek more information by utilizing the postage-paid reader service card or by using our “FastPath” service which provides web links to all the images in the magazine.
(4) Where do you get your editorial for Architectural Products?
We create a significant amount of original content and are responsible for developing the magazine sections. We also rely on manufacturers and associations who have products for commercial and institutional buildings. There are several editorial departments … each offering a different view of the product marketplace. A few are:
• Trend Lines: Covering new product directions that are influencing architectural choice
• Specifiers’ Solution: Case studies that demonstrate how products become solutions
• Market of Choice: Focus on a specific market of opportunity (i.e. Schools, Healthcare Facilities, Entertainment/Hospitality, Tall Buildings, etc.) with insights about current market needs and products meeting those needs
• Last Detail: First-person accounts of an architects’ product of choice
• Project Deconstruction: Exploding a project to reveal the significant product components
• Lighting + Illumination: New feature devoted to both interior and exterior light sources
• And more; New & Improved product announcements, binder updates, website reviews, R&D updates, association profiles and news.
(5) Who reads Architectural Products and why?
Our readers are architects, designers and product specifiers who are primarily engaged in commercial and institutional design. They are employed in various employment situations, from the traditional architectural firm and A/E firm to interior design firms and government, educational and “in-house” corporate facilities management or development situations.
Readers come to the magazine to see the latest product and service offerings from the manufacturing sector in an easy-to-read format that is both graphically stimulating and technically proficient.
Architectural Products is a winner of a Silver Award, Best New Magazine Design – 2003 form the American Association of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE).
(6) Don’t the other magazines cover products?
Yes they do, but not in the way, shape or form that is evident in Architectural Products. For the most part, the two longstanding architectural publications, both outstanding in their own right, are design and practice oriented. They mainly focus on the built environment … photography and descriptions of buildings, design tendencies, commentary and critique.
Product information is our editorial; AP delivers more product information in more product categories with more topics than any magazine serving the market. Every page of every issue covers product.
(7) What are readers saying about AP?
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(8) Can you assist with my Distance Learning efforts?
Yes, we can. Periodically, there will appear Continuing Education articles and sponsored sections within the magazine and on the website at www.arch-products.com. Our every-issue “Resource Updates” section details many Continuing Education programs available from a wide variety of providers.
(9) Do you engage in any CEU Conferencing?
Yes, we do. If you’re a reader or interested in attending one our seminars, click here.
If you are an advertiser or interested in learning more about becoming a sponsor of presenter, then click here.
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