Personally I find this dissapointing.

Array Themes produce the best looking and best engineered themes on the market. I use them as the basis for most of sites. When I need to create a child theme I usually create one based on a theme from the Array collection.

With the team subsumed by Studiopress there will be no new themes from Array.

Array have offered there lifetime customers access to Studiopress themes.

However, I personally find this unsatisfactory. Studiopress themes all use the Genesis framework as their base. And I simply don't like working with Genesis. Their developer documentation is sparse and inadequate. And having to create functions for simple things that would otherwise just require template overrides is a pointless time-sink. Once a project gets to a certain level of complexity Genesis themes simply aren't a practical choice.

I've been hoping for a new theme shop or two that produces themes as beautifully designed and built as Array Themes. Guess I'll keep hoping.