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Design is a vibrant field. The so-called 'edges' are increasingly becoming its driving forces. Crossovers between traditional design disciplines and other professions are becoming enriched. Design and Culture will occupy a vital role in tackling these changes head-on by situating design within the full range of cultural contexts. It will also examine design in relation to other academic disciplines, including marketing, management, cultural studies, anthropology, material culture, geography, visual culture and political economy. Peer-reviewed, full-color and handsomely designed throughout, Design and Culture is the official journal of the Design Studies Forum. Topics will include the relationships between design and: · Processes · Theory and ideology · Society and new media · Political economy · Value · Consumption · 'Peripheral', 'transitional' and 'development' contexts · Leisure and tourism · Regeneration and social participation · Sustainability · The senses · Craft & art · The studio · The urban environment · Management · Brands The journal encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners across the broad range of humanities and social sciences disciplines. Forthcoming articles: 'Faith-Based Design' by Carma Gorman, Southern Illinois State University, USA 'Design: What's in a Word?' by Arindam Dutta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 'Design Failure' by Sarah Lochlann Jain, Stanford University, USA 'Regime Change: Aspen Design Conference, 1968-71' by Alice Twemlow, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA 'The Cranbrook Experiment: Graphic Design and Professional Discourse' by Will Temple, North Carolina State University, USA 'Dialogues: Value, Relationality and Unfinished Objects': Guy Julier, Leeds Metropolitan University, in dialogue with Scott Lash, Goldsmiths College, University of London, and Celia Lury, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK 'Reconsidering: Philip Meggs and Richard Hollis' by Johanna Drucker, University of Virgini