News: Southern Accents Magazine Folds

Add Southern Accents magazine to the list of recession casualties in the design industry. Time Inc. announced that it will shut down the 32-year-old magazine, which has a circulation of 400,000, but will maintain the Southern Accents website.
According to The Washington Post, local designers like Barry Dixon will miss the magazine as Southern Accents has given many locals their big breaks. Will you mourn the closing of Southern Accents? Survey and more info below the jump...

Southern Accents was the first to publish Barry Dixon's work and feature him on the magazine cover. The last issue will be the September - October 2009 issues, which arrives on newstands on September 1.

More information on Southern Accents folding:
• Area Designers Lament End of Southern Accents from The Washington Post
• Time Inc. shuttering Southern Accents magazine from Forbes
• Time Inc. Shutters Southern Accents from The New York Times

Other Recent Magazine Closures:
• Breaking News: Domino Magazine is Closing
• News: O at Home Folds
• Shelterquake: Cottage Living Folds!

Comments (7)

still missing domino and blueprint

posted by avianmission on August 13th 2009 at 4:15pm
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Well, they replaced my Cottage Living with Southern Accent and I really didn't like it...couldn't figure out why that had survived and others hadn't.

posted by robinette on August 13th 2009 at 5:10pm
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There was such a magazine?

posted by bepsf on August 13th 2009 at 5:23pm
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I'm subscription-shy since FOUR of my major subs (Country Home, Domino, Cottage Living, Mary Engelbreit) went under --the 'replacement' mags I'm getting are far inferior, bordering on insulting. One of my subs went under right after they accepted my renewal -- bad form, IMHO.

posted by mirandabee on August 13th 2009 at 7:58pm
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I never really thought Souther Accents was that great....I'm surprised it lasted this long.

posted by Volvoguy on August 13th 2009 at 9:11pm
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While I never *like* to see anything related to the interiors business fold, but c'mon, Southern Accents was pretty tired.

Big fan of Garden & Gun magazine (don't cringe, it's more garden, food and lifestyle than gun!) Plus, it has a much more real people slant -- and, dare I say -- hipper read?

posted by nancy_s on August 13th 2009 at 9:15pm
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My grandma would possibly miss it, I don't.

posted by midmodfan on August 14th 2009 at 6:34am
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