The Design Journal is Taylor & Francis' flagship design journal. It is globally established and the leading international peer-reviewed journal.
The Design Journal publishes thought-provoking work directly impacting design knowledge, leadership, and creative practice(s). It also aims to create an inclusive environment for design worldwide and for people at every stage of their careers. Today’s design and design research takes place globally, and The Design Journal is dedicated to equity and providing an international dialogue that qualitatively reflects the diversity of its community.
It is dynamic and directed at academics, professionals, and researchers concerned with all aspects of Design, its visual and interdisciplinary practices and new knowledge. It challenges assumptions and methods while being open-minded about design's future. Its subject range covers Design as a collaborator, a policy, a product, a process, a service and a system. Individually, these may cover a wide range of topics drawn from the discipline, including (but not limited to) the established subject areas of Industrial Design, Architecture, Design Management, Design Education and Pedagogy, Textile and Fashion Design, and Communication Design to the newer areas of Design-Driven Entrepreneurship, Design with Business, Design with Health and Wellbeing, Design Policy, Design Thinking, Interaction Design, Service Design, Social Innovation, Transition Design and other emerging design disciplines.
The Design Journal is the official journal of the
European Academy of Design.
It is published six times a year and provides a lively forum for a broad audience of designers, design scholars, researchers, educators, and managers worldwide. It offers authors a range of submission formats.
To be considered for publication, articles must
clearly articulate their relevance to either design practice, design research, design theory, design management or design pedagogy and education. We welcome
high-quality, original articles in the form of:
Design Research Article
Article reporting on primary research with specific methods, findings, and results. It will normally contain an abstract and references. It may also contain figures, tables, and footnotes.
Design Discussion
Invited and/or a submitted discussion about a specific article or design/design research issue. It may be a critical design, speculative design, or propositional design – non-commercial, practice-based explorations that address significant contemporary issues in design and through design. It may also be a position paper and philosophical discussion by experienced academics offering their perspectives on important design-related issues.
Book/ Exhibition Review
Review or analysis of one or more printed or online books.
Review or analysis of one or more design or design-related exhibitions.
PhD Study Article
Article reporting on doctoral studies with specific methods, findings, and results. It will normally contain an abstract and references. It may also contain figures, tables, and footnotes.
Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.
Read the Instructions for Authors .Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.
Manuscripts are likely to be desk-rejected if they do not state a clear objective, do not offer new knowledge or fresh insights, are insufficiently connected to the discipline of design and its interdisciplinarity (creative practices, pedagogies, theories), are poorly written with a lack of quality editing, make assertions without support, have inadequate references, are a graduate level essay, and-or are a literature review with no new and significant contribution to knowledge.
Peer review policy
Taylor & Francis is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Research articles published in
The Design Journal have undergone peer review. After initial screening by the editor for quality and fit with the journal’s objectives, papers are reviewed by at least two anonymous referees with appropriate specialist knowledge. Find out more about
what to expect during peer review and read our guidance on
publishing ethics.
Editor-in-chief
Louise Valentine
Co-Editor
Noël Palomo-Lovinski, Kent State University, USA
Wei Liu, King's College London, UK
PhD Study Report Editors
Christopher Lim, University of Dundee, UK
Gemma Wheeler, In dependent scholar, UK
Book Reviews Editor
John Knight, Aalto University, Finland
Editorial Board
Helena Barbosa, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Spyros Bofylatos, Royal College of Art, UK
Brigitte Borja de Mozota, Designence, France
Leon Cruickshank, Lancaster University, UK
Shilpa Das, National Institute of Design Ahmedabad, India
Rebecca Earley, Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK
Nabil EL HILALI, ICD Business School, IGS group, France
Özlem Er, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Mark Evans, Loughborough University, UK
Priscila Farias, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Francesco Galli, IULM University, Italy
Koray Gelmez, Istanbul Technical University, Türkiye
Alison Gwilt, University of New South Wales, Australia
Leigh-Anne Hepburn, The University of Sydney, Australia
John Knight, Aalto University, Finland
Jesper F. Legaard, Kolding School of Design, Denmark
Louise Rosanna Manfredi, Brown University, USA
Marzia Mortati, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Ann Petermans, Hasselt University, Belgium
Daniel Raposo, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal
Paul A. Rodgers, University of Strathclyde, UK
Bahar Şener-Pedgley, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Xiwei Shen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Mari Suoheimo, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway
K. Scott Swan, College of William & Mary, USA
Stuart Walker, Lancaster University, UK
Neena Singh Zutshi, World University of Design, India
Editorial Advisory Board*
Leon Cruickshank, *Chair,
Lancaster University, UK
Vasco Branco,
University of Aveiro, Portugal
Anne Chick,
University of Lincoln, UK
Tom Inns,
Independent Scholar, UK
Birgit Jevnaker,
BI Norwegian Business School, Norway
Pekka Korvenmaa,
Aalto University, Finland
Tore Kristensen,
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Julian Malins,
The Robert Gordon University, UK
Catherine McDermott,
Kingston University, UK
Penny Sparke,
Kingston University, UK
Dominira Saul,
Founder / Principal at DFFRNT, Canada
Francesca Tassistro,
Global Design Lead at Avanade, Italy
Artemis Yagou,
Deutsches Museum, Germany
College of Reviewer Members
Gargi Bhaduri, Kent State University, USA
Joanna Bletcher, University of Dundee, UK
Spyros Bofylatos, Royal College of Art, UK
Magdalena Cattan-Lavin, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Teng-Wen Chang, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, China
Lauren Copeland, Kent State University, USA
Daniel Cosentino, RIT Kosovo, Republic of Kosovo
Emelia Delaney, King's College London, UK
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, designswarm, UK
Steven Faerm, Parsons School of Design, USA
Aija Freimane, Art Academy of Latvia, Latvia
Béatrice Gisclard, Université de Nîmes, France
Deniz Hasirci, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey
Ying Hu, Hunan University, China
Patrycja Kaszynska, University of the Arts,UK
Sotiris T Lalaounis, University of Bristol, UK
Jung Soo Lee, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Sheng-Hung Lee, MIT, USA
Muhammad Isfandyar Khan, Spaceman Architecture Design, Pakistan
Yanyan Liao, Donghua University, China
Eleonora Lupo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Justin Magee, Ulster University, Northern Ireland
Marzia Mortati, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Pınar Nuhoğlu Kibar, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Işıl Oygür, University of Cincinnati, USA
David Perez, Lancaster University, UK
David Sanchez Ruano, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico
Kamalpreet Sandhu, Lovely Professional University, India
Pooya Sareh, University of Liverpool, UK
Ruth Stevens, Hasselt University, Belgium
Bruce Wan, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, China
Jiayu Wu, Royal College of Art, UK
Sylvia Xihui Liu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HKSAR, China
Yuanyuan Yin, University of Southampton, UK
If you would like to be considered a member of the Design Journal College of Reviewers, please get in touch with Co-Editor and Professor Wei Liu (PhD), King’s College London, for more information -
[email protected] The Design Journal is a community of scholars committed to integrity and transparency, safeguarding ethical values, and developing ways of working that enable inclusivity to flourish in all our work. Our efforts are towards leadership and benchmarking best practices in the international design research community. For these reasons, we are establishing a College of Reviewers to enhance the peer review system by developing mentoring opportunities and providing reviewers with up-to-date knowledge and resources needed to conduct consistent, fair, and high-quality peer reviews. The College of Reviewers (CoR) is a group of selected academic reviewers drawn from various institutions and career experiences, from Early Career Researchers to senior academics. All reviewers are active design academics and researchers. The CoR works closely with the Editorial Board, which oversees the peer review process and helps ensure quality.
Founding Editor
Rachel Cooper, Lancaster University, UK
Co-Founder
Jack Ingram, Birmingham City University, UK
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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