Dear List Members
Call for Papers
Visible Language Special Issue: Visible Language & Historical Evidence
Context:
At its inception, the history of visual communication design relied on the intuition of practitioners and the connoisseurship of collectors; its narrative prioritized aesthetic styles and eminent designers. More recently, historians across the design disciplines have emphasized the need for empirical research, cultural contextualization, and diverse global narratives. The time is ripe for historians of visual communication design to contribute to this work.
Special issue CFP:
This special issue of Visible Language seeks to establish design history as an ongoing and integral part of the journal’s larger initiative toward evidence-based inquiry in visual communication design. Articles accepted for publication in this issue will document and interrogate historical evidence relative to the past practices, artifacts, and uses of visual communication design. Of particular interest are articles addressing under-represented research areas: women designers, designers of color, design outside of western Europe and the United States, and design outside of the Modernist tradition.
Areas of inquiry might include but are not limited to:
Designers who have been written out of the dominant historical narrative
Designers, practices, and artifacts from locations outside North America and western Europe
Anonymous or ubiquitous design artifacts and their place in the historical narrative
Collaborative design practices and their historical outcomes or cultural impact
Vernacular or local design traditions functioning alongside or in opposition to Modernism
Historical instances of overlap between craft or trade traditions and what we now call design
Historical instances of overlap between constructing a history of design and practicing design
Quantitative studies seeking to document patterns of use or impact
New critical approaches to familiar themes and subjects
Timeline:
May 15 2018 – full papers due to editors
May 30 2018 – results of peer review to authors
June 15 2017 – requested revisions due to editors
August 2018 – publication of special issue
Contact:
Guidelines for preparing a submission can be found at
http://visiblelanguagejournal.com/submission
Further questions and/or submissions to the special issue should be directed to:
Dori Griffin, Assistant Professor, Ohio University School of Art + Design, [log in to unmask]
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Dori Griffin | MFA, PhD
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design
Ohio University School of Art + Design
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