Journal of Design History
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The Journal of Design History (Design History Society/OUP) publishes peer reviewed articles & reviews.
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/...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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/...
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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
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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/...
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November 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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/...
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Join us in welcoming Chi Zhang, new Asia Editor of the Journal of Design History
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October 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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.
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.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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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September 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
#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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September 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
#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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September 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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.
August 31, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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-...
Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...
August 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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-...
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-...
August 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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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August 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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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a Complex World, published by Verso.
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August 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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-...
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-...
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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
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August 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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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August 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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-...
August 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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-...
August 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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-...
June 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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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May 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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.
Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...
Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...
May 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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-...
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...
April 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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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April 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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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March 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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.
Read at https://buff.ly/3DblMNY. All Explorations are open access.
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Read at https://buff.ly/3DblMNY. All Explorations are open access.
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February 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
NEW Explorations piece! "A Leg Lamp Story" by Joseph H. Larnerd.
Read at https://buff.ly/3DblMNY. All Explorations are open access.
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Read at https://buff.ly/3DblMNY. All Explorations are open access.
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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.
Read now at https://buff.ly/4hN7VMv
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Read now at https://buff.ly/4hN7VMv
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February 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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
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Read now at https://buff.ly/4hN7VMv
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