Product manufacturers place advertising in Learning By Design magazine because it delivers targeted, high-value exposure to one of the most influential and difficult-to-reach audiences in the built environment: decision-makers responsible for planning, designing, specifying, and outfitting educational facilities. Unlike broad-based media, Learning By Design is tightly focused on PreK–12 and higher education environments, ensuring that every advertisement reaches architects, interior designers, school district leaders, facilities managers, and institutional stakeholders actively engaged in capital projects and renovations.
Every advertisement placed in Learning By Design is included in both the print and digital editions.
Audience Alignment and Specification Influence
Manufacturers understand that the readers of Learning By Design are not casual browsers—they are professionals making material, systems, and product decisions that directly impact multi-million-dollar projects. By appearing alongside award-winning projects, case studies, and research-driven content, manufacturers position their products within a context of proven design excellence and innovation. This proximity reinforces credibility and increases the likelihood of being specified during the design and procurement process.
Trusted Editorial Resource
With decades of industry presence, Learning By Design has cultivated a reputation for showcasing best practices, emerging trends, and evidence-based design strategies. Print advertisements benefit from this trust halo, lending legitimacy to featured brands and signaling that they are aligned with forward-thinking, high-performance learning environments. For manufacturers, this is not just visibility—it is association with thought leadership.
Tangible Engagement and Longevity
Unlike digital ads that are easily dismissed, print placements in a well-designed publication invite deeper interaction. Issues are often retained, shared among teams, and revisited during project planning phases, extending the life of each advertisement well beyond initial distribution. This is particularly valuable in education design, where project timelines can span months or years.
Integrated Reach Across Channels and Events
Learning By Design is distributed not only directly to subscribers but also at major industry conferences and gatherings, where it serves as both a takeaway resource and a conversation starter. Print advertising thus becomes part of a broader visibility strategy, reinforcing brand presence across editorial, in-person, and digital touchpoints.
Magazine/Print Ad Options
2-Page Spread
Full Page
Haf (1/2) Page Horizontal
One-Fourth (1/4) Page
Add-on Options:
- Preferred Positions
- Back Cover
- Inside Front Cover 2-Page Spread
- Second Placed 2-page Spread
- Opposite: Table of Contents
- Opposite: Consecutive Right-hand Pages
- Center 2-page Spread
- Inside Back Cover
- Digital E-Magazine Page Zero Sponsorship
Advertisement Deadlines
Spring: April 2027
Final space reservation deadline: February 6, 2027
Ad material deadline: February 19, 2027
Summer: June 2027
Final space reservation deadline: April 9, 2027
Ad material deadline: April 23, 2027
Fall: October 2027
Final space reservation deadline: August 3, 2027
Ad material deadline: August 11, 2027
Sponsored Content
Learning By Design’s editorial staff will work with you to create brand-positive informative articles that are published nationally. Your article can then be shared via the company webpage and social media channels, and finally redistributed via a blast release and through the sales team platform to ensure comprehensive saturation.
An article or series of articles can be created around people, places, products, trends, and/or performance. From the whos and whats to the whens and whys, these pieces are about the nuts and bolts of putting boots on the ground to having success in the education and design sector.
Must place a half-page or larger advertisement in the same edition as content articles.
How it works
Option A. You provide our team with executive-level thought leadership content designed to the magazine’s print-ready design specifications.
Option B. You provide our team with a topic, a set of guiding objectives, and the introduction to one or more of your known thought leaders, plus a few topic-oriented photographs, and our staff will set up interviews, write, and design a 1,000-1,500-word article. 1-2 Blog Post are also an option!
Sponsored content is one of the most successful marketing tools out there - because it works. Our sponsored content option allows you to speak directly to readers in print and digital format.
Educate potential customers with timely and useful industry information to improve design strategies.
Create derivative products derived from recorded webinars or event presentations.
Share content that becomes part of the authoritative dialog in Learning By Design.
Use content marketing in combination with display advertisings to maximize your mesage.
Brand your executives or aligned 3rd party thought leaders to your niche solution area.
Editorial Calendar
All editions of Learning By Design will include Thought Leader Editorial from:
- The Association for Learning Environments (A4LE)
- American Institute of Architects, Committee on Architecture for Education (AIA CAE)
- Association of University Interior Designers (AUID)
- Coalition for the Advanced Understanding of School Environments (CAUSE)
Each edition will include a Learning By Design Awards program, plus practical, knowledge-based articles drawn from field-based practitioners, educators, and built-environment researchers. All Learning By Design Architecture, Interior Design, and Facilities Design Awards (April and October) will include Early Learning, Middle School, High School, Higher Education, and Career and Technical Education Campus Environments.
Spring: April Edition
- LBD Award: Education Facilities Design Awards Showcase
- Feature Article Themes:
- Across the Continuum of Learning: Aligning Facility Infrastructure to Campus Needs
- Higher Education: Career and Technical Education (CTE) | |Product Galley
- PreK–12 Schools: Designing Schools for the Neurology of Adolescence | Product Gallery
- Educational Design Research: Outdoor Learning – Shifting Paradigm
- Departments, timely thought leader content from:
- American Institute of Architects Committee on Architecture for Education
- Association for Learning Environments (A4LE)
- Association of University Interior Designers (AUID)
- The Coalition for the Advanced Understanding of School Environments (CAUSE)
- Final space deadline: February 5, 2027
- Materials deadline: February 19, 2027
Summer: June Edition
- LBD Award: ICONS in Education Design Awards
- Feature Article Themes:
- Across the Continuum of Learning: STEM / STEAM Programming
- Higher Education: Library / Media Center / Student Dinning | Next Generation Architecture
- PreK–12 Schools: Early Childhood / PreK Environments.| Space Design’s Impact on the Educator Experience.
- Educational Design Research: Designing for Resilience, Energy Efficiency, Building Comfort
- Departments, timely thought leader content from:
- American Institute of Architects Committee on Architecture for Education
- Association for Learning Environments (A4LE)
- Association of University Interior Designers (AUID)
- The Coalition for the Advanced Understanding of School Environments (CAUSE)
- Final space deadline: April 9, 2027
- Materials deadline: April 23, 2027
Fall: October Edition
- LBD Award: Architecture and Interior Design Awards of Excellence
- Feature Article Themes:
- Across the Continuum of Learning: Flexible and Adaptive Learning Environments
- Higher Education: Branding | The Student Lounge | Faculty Wellbeing
- K-12 Schools: Designing Classrooms and Learning Studios
- Educational Design Research: Classroom Technology | AI Integration | Campus Safety
- Departments, timely thought leader content from:
- American Institute of Architects Committee on Architecture for Education
- Association for Learning Environments (A4LE)
- Association of University Interior Designers (AUID)
- The Coalition for the Advanced Understanding of School Environments (CAUSE)
- Final space deadline: August 3, 2027
- Materials deadline: August 11, 2027