A new issue of the Journal of Design History is now available. Read 38:2 now at academic.oup.com/jdh/issue

NEW book review! History and Legacy of Isotype, edited by Christopher Burke and Günther Sandner, reviewed by Kylièn Bergh. Read now at doi.org/10.1093/jdh/... #DesignHistory #JournalOfDesignHistory

NEW advance article! Knoll by West’s: Unearthing Local Stories Through a Transnational Design History by Janina Gosseye. Read now at doi.org/10.1093/jdh/... #DesignHistory #JournalOfDesignHistory

NEW book review! Mondrian’s Dress: Yves Saint Lauren, Piet Mondrian, and Pop Art by Nancy J. Troy and Marguerite Tartsinis, published by MIT Press, reviewed by Felice McDowell Read now at doi.org/10.1093/jdh/... #DesignHistory #JournalOfDesignHistory #Fashion #Mondrian

Join us in welcoming Chi Zhang, new Asia Editor of the Journal of Design History Visit www.designhistorysociety.org/news/view/we... to read more.

A new issue of the #JournalOfDesignHistory is available to read online. Visit academic.oup.com/jdh/issue to check out 38:1. #DesignHistory

#DHSConvergingPaths attendees, please join us for the final keynote of the 2025 conference, given by Prof. Dr. Süha Özkan: Validation of Architecture by means of Awards. We hope to see you there. #DesignHistorySociety

#DHSConvergingPaths attendees, please join us for our second keynote, by Prof. Dr. Gülay Hasdoğan of @metu_odtu: From Recognition to Regulation: Professional Strategies of Industrial Designers within Creative Economy Policies in Turkey. #DesignHistorySociety

Today's #DHSConvergingPaths keynote will be presented by John Newbigin, Ambassador for the Creative Industries with the Mayor of London at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations here in the Old City, Ankara. #DesignHistorySociety

The annual @sodesignhistory conference begins this week at Ankara Bilim University. Tune in here to the #JournalOfDesignHistory's coverage of Converging Paths: Design in the Creative Economy.

NEW book review! Victoria Bradley reviews Frances Burke: Designer of Modern Textiles by Nanette Carter and Robyn Oswald-Jacobs and A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The designs of Dorothy Liebes, edited by Susan Brown and Alexa Griffith Winton. Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...

NEW advance article! Synthetic Paradoxes: Moving with the Dematerialization of Plastic Design by Cristina Bargna. Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...

NEW advance article! A Spirited Way to a Rational Home: Cultivating Normativity through the Victorian Spiritualist Interior by Vanessa Galvin. Read this open access article at academic.oup.com/jdh/article/... #JournalOfDesignHistory #DesignHistory #DomesticLife #Interior

NEW book review! James Dyer reviews Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World, published by Verso. Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...

NEW advance article! Liquid Forms: Questions for a Design History of Water by @madsfolkmann and Malin Graesse. Read and subscribe now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-... #JournalOfDesignHistory #DesignHistory #Aesthetics #GreyEcology

Liquid Forms: Questions for a Design History of Water

Abstract. The article introduces a largely overlooked topic within the history of design: Designed objects serving as interfaces with water, enabling inter

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A new special issue of the Journal of Design History is now available online: Toward a Design History of the Occult. Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/issue/37/4 #DesignHistory #JournalOfDesignHistory

NEW advance article! Witchcraft as Ontological Designing: Assemblage and More-Than-Human Relationality in Latin American Brujería (Sixteenth - Eighteenth centuries) by Anaïs Carlton-Parada is available to read at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...

NEW advance article! The Art and Craft of the Border: Reginald W. Machell’s Theosophical Woodwork by Grace Converse, available to read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...

NEW book review! Jonathan M Woodham reviews Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist Exhibitions in Britain, 1933-53 by Harriet Atkinson. Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...

NEW (open access) advance article! Contemporary Visions: Refiguring The Esoteric; The Transformational Act of “Making” Magic by Sarah Bellisario. Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-... #DesignHistory #Design #Heritage #Occultism #Esoteric

Eric Anderson reviews 3 monographs on the history of color: The Color of Modernism by Deborah Ascher Barnstone, William Burges’s Great Bookcase by Charlotte Ribeyrol, and The Rainbow’s Gravity by Kirsty Sinclair Dootson. Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...

The Journal of Design History is looking to appoint two new Editorial Board members: an Asia Editor and an Explorations Managing Editor. For full descriptions, and to apply, visit: www.designhistorysociety.org/about/vacanc...

NEW book review! Özlem Savaş @viadrina.bsky.social‬ reviews Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories, edited by Sarah A. Lichtman and Jilly Traganou. Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-... #DesignHistory #JournalOfDesignHistory

NEW advance article! Pipsan Saarinen Swanson’s Life Model Home: Mediation and Mythmaking in Postwar America by Alison Kowalski. Read and subscribe now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-... #DesignHistory #JournalOfDesignHistory #Regionalism #ModelHomes

NEW Explorations piece! "A Leg Lamp Story" by Joseph H. Larnerd. Read at https://buff.ly/3DblMNY. All Explorations are open access. #JournalOfDesignHistory #DesignHistory #DecorativeArts #PopularCulture

NEW advance article! Medium and Managerial Expertise: Orthogonal Drawing and Advertising in T.M. Cleland’s The New Cadillac (1928) by Michael J Golec. Read now at https://buff.ly/4hN7VMv #DesignHistory #JournalOfDesignHistory #Advertising #Illustration

NEW advance article! On Being Simultaneously Arab and “Modern”: Saloua Raouda Choucair’s Design Between Science and Sufism by Yasmine Nachabe Taan. Read now at https://buff.ly/4jPFU8M #DesignHistory #JournalOfDesignHistory #WomenDesigners #Modernity

A new issue of the #JournalofDesignHistory has been published online. You can now access Volume 37 Number 3 at https://buff.ly/3EBtA9r #DesignHistory

Fredric Jameson—literary theorist, heterodox Marxist, and one of the most important cultural analysts of the last 60 years—died on September 22, 2024 at the age of 90. Read the Journal of Design History's tribute at https://buff.ly/4fTzPoK

NEW advance article! Critical Ethics for Communicating Indigenous Craft Practices by Teal Triggs, Celia Matsunaga, and Matt Lewis. Read now at https://buff.ly/4frVq7e