DPA magazine was launched in 1979 to meet the needs of busy engineering designers who had little time to wade through endless pages of design theory and urgently needed to locate Products, Materials and Service providers to enable them to complete their tasks. As the media requirements of readership have changed so has the way in which DPA been produced. Along with the monthly printed title they also produce a digital version of the magazine and can add extra features that a print product cannot possibly achieve, such as video, audio and other features. Along with this they have a daily updated news web site with an archive spanning more than 12 years of edited and controlled engineering design news - fully searchable and accessable.