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This latest issue has just been posted. Its theme is ‘Design’s Other’ and it features five papers ranging from the scholarly to personal accounts on the issue of western culture’s dominance of design. The papers consider whether this is necessarily ‘a bad thing’, what kind of cultural exchanges are appropriate to current circumstances, problems of cross-cultural translation and what there might be to learn from non-western modes of ‘design’. Authors of the papers are Stanislaus Fung, Samer Akkach, Tony Fry, Kati Reijonen and Francois-Xavier Nzi iyo Nsenga. As well, a debate is initiated by Victor Margolin on the politics of design, with Abby Mellick Lopes and Tony Fry weighing in. And Cameron Tonkinwise reviews Vilem Flusser’s ‘The Shape of Things’. As usual, go to www.desphilosophy.com and click on Current Issue. All the best in your research for 2004. Anne-Marie Willis, Editor, Design Philosophy Papers.