Journal of Design History

Join us in welcoming Chi Zhang, new Asia Editor of the Journal of Design History

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A new issue of the #JournalOfDesignHistory is available to read online. Visit academic.oup.com/jdh/issue to check out 38:1.
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#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.
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#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.
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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.
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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.
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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/...
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NEW book review! James Dyer reviews Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in
a Complex World, published by Verso.
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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

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-...
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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
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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-...
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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.

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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-...
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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-...
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NEW Explorations piece! "A Leg Lamp Story" by Joseph H. Larnerd.

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NEW advance article! Medium and Managerial Expertise: Orthogonal Drawing and Advertising in T.M. Cleland’s The New Cadillac (1928) by Michael J Golec.
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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
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A new issue of the #JournalofDesignHistory has been published online. You can now access Volume 37 Number 3 at https://buff.ly/3EBtA9r
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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.

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NEW in Explorations! Our first-ever Explorations piece has been published online and is available to read.

Maya Ober uses archival ethnography and feminist approaches [to unveil] hidden dimensions of admission practices at the Ulm School of Design. Read now at https://buff.ly/3VAhBBh

NEW book review: Design History and Culture: Methods and Approaches edited by Javier Gimeno-Martínez, reviewed by Penny Sparke @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social. Read now at https://buff.ly/4fIiYpz #JournalOfDesignHistory #DesignHistory

NEW advance article! Exploring the Unseen: Archival Ethnography of Rejected Applications at the Ulm School of Design (HfG Ulm) by Maya Ober. Read now at https://buff.ly/4isdtNJ #JournalOfDesignHistory #DesignHistory #Feminism #Ethnography #DesignEducation

NEW advance article! Designing Public Secrecy: Kongfz.com and the Digital Trade in Cultural Revolution Objects by Minerva Inwald. Read now at https://buff.ly/3VgLoik
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