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THE SOCIETY

Design Studies Forum is a College Art Association Affiliated Society. Founded as Design Forum in 1983 and renamed in 2004, Design Studies Forum seeks to nurture and encourage the study of design history, criticism, and theory and to foster better communication among the academic and design communities. The Forum’s 400+ members include practicing designers, design historians, critics, and museum professionals.

THE JOURNAL

Design and Culture
Design Studies Forum's new peer-reviewed journal
Vol. 1, No. 1 available online from Berg


Design and Culture

Design and Culture is a new interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published by Berg and the official journal of the Design Studies Forum. To celebrate the inaugural issue, Berg posted the contents of the first issue online at no charge.

Edited by Elizabeth Guffey (State University of New York, Purchase, United States) and Associate Editors Guy Julier (Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, England), Pekka Korvenmaa, (University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland), and Matt Soar (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada), Design and Culture will publish three issues annually.

Design and Culture explores the dynamic, contingent relationships between design and its many cultural contexts. Encompassing the numerous professional, quasi-professional, and amateur fields of design, the journal identifies and explores cultures of design and designs of culture, investigating the tensions often encountered between critical, analytical, and intellectual activity and traditional studio-based endeavors.

The journal aims to broaden the discourse of design by examining its relation to other academic disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, economics, geography, marketing, management, material culture, politics, and visual culture. It also seeks congruence between traditional divisions within design practice, such as graphic, product, industrial, and environmental design. In so doing, the journal's editorial board proposes to strengthen, clarify, and promote the study of design cultures, including history, criticism, and design practice, in the contemporary academy.

Design and Culture invites interpretive critiques, review essays, interviews, book reviews, case studies, and field reports that address designed objects, systems, and practices and their contexts, texts, and reception.

Submissions
Guidelines for contributors and instructions for submitting manuscripts are available at www.designandculture.org.

Books for review and suggestions for books to review may be sent to:

Professor Carma Gorman
Lead Book Review Editor
Design and Culture
School of Art and Design
Allyn Building 113, mail code 4301
1100 South Normal Avenue
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, IL 62901-4301
USA
cgorman@siu.edu

Subscriptions
Individuals can subscribe to the print version of Design and Culture; institutional subscriptions are available for both print and online versions. Find full details from Berg.

MEMBERSHIP

Beginning in January, 2009, a dues-paying membership will be established. A number of benefits will come with membership, including access to the new Design studies Forum journal, Design and Culture.

MAILING LIST

Announcements of exhibitions, employment opportunities, symposia, calls for participation, and the like are regularly sent to members.

Postings may be sent to desforum@siu.edu. Send announcements as list-ready messages in plain text. Please do not send attachments. Because the list manager screens postings for appropriate content and format, there may be a slight delay in the posting of your announcement.

To join the electronic mailing list, please send an email with the words “join DSF” in the subject line to desforum@siu.edu.

ADD YOUR CONTENT

The Design Studies Forum is currently gathering content to better meet the needs of our growing field. For further information or suggestions, please contact bryana@designandculture.org

OFFICERS

President Elizabeth Guffey, State University of New York at Purchase
Vice President Sarah Teasley, Royal College of Art
Secretary Rebecca Targ, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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