On behalf of the editorial board of the Journal of Design History, I am delighted to announce the publication of our first Virtual Special Issue, an online initiative which pairs a comprehensive and current historiography with key essays selected from the Journal’s archive of thousands of articles. The introduction will remain free to access indefinitely; the articles will be free to access throughout this calendar year.

This year’s VSI is entitled ‘Reframing Australian Design History’, and it has been edited by Dr DJ Huppatz, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Access the brand new introduction and the selected articles at: http://oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/design/resource/reframing_australian_design_history.html

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Dr Grace Lees-Maffei, MA RCA PhD FHEA

Reader in Design History School of Creative Arts, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK.

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Managing Editor, Journal of Design History

Author, Design at Home: Domestic Advice Books in Britain and the USA since 1945

Co-Editor, Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design

Editor, Writing Design: Words and Objects

Co-Editor, The Design History Reader

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