Focus and Scope
Design and Culture seeks to establish a dynamic relationship between design and its many cultural contexts. Encompassing the numerous professional fields of design and so-called "amateur design," the journal identifies and explores the cultural roots of design process, practice and reception.
The journal aims to broaden discourse by examining design's relation to other academic disciplines, including marketing, management, cultural studies, anthropology, material culture, geography, visual culture, or political economy as well as finding congruence between traditional, studio-based divisions within design practice, such as graphic, product, industrial, or environmental. In so doing, the journal proposes to locate and validate the study of design cultures, including history, criticism, and design practice, in the contemporary academy, especially by investigating the possible tensions posited between critical, analytical, or intellectual activity and studio-based endeavors.
Section Policies
JOURNAL ARTICLES
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
BOOK REVIEWS
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
 Peer Reviewed |
FILMS
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Peer Review Process
The editors at Design and Culture make an initial appraisal of each manuscript submitted to the journal. If the topic and treatment are potentially appropriate to Design and Culture, the manuscript is submitted to Design and Culture’s peer review process. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two referees under a double-blind peer process, where both the referees and the authors are kept anonymous. Referees are asked to evaluate the manuscript based on its originality, soundness of methodology, importance of research, strength of evidence, and quality of presentation. Manuscripts are sent out for review electronically, and all correspondence takes place via e-mail. Referees are asked to make reports as well as recommendations to the journal’s editors. Upon request, authors will receive reviewers' evaluations.
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