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The latest issue, Volume 4, Number 4, of Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal includes:

    Pop-Up Village for Haiti Made From 900 Shipping Containers

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    From Bridgette Meinhold at Inhabitat

    Haitian Canadian musician Luck Mervil is leading the charge to help rebuild Haiti with houses made from repurposed shipping containers. Mervil is behind the Montreal organization Vilaj Vilaj, which wants to use 900 shipping containers to build an entirely new village west of Port-au-Prince fit for 5,000 people. The organization aims to build sustainable and long-term housing in Haiti — and eventually elsewhere — with the help of local Haitians.
    Mervil, who has put his own career aside to work on this important project, expects the entire community to cost around $25 million and has been ardently working to raise the funds. The new village will be built on a parcel of previously uninhabited land near Leogane, a coastal city west of Port-au-Prince. A prototype shipping container house was built in Canada in 10 days for between $8,000 and $10,000, and Mervil expects the costs to be much lower in Haiti. More…

    Design Journal, Volume 4, Number 5 now available

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    The fifth issue of Volume 4 of Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal is now available.

    Volume 4, Number 5 contains:

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    The latest issue of  of Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal includes:

    Design is History

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    From Swiss Miss

    Design is History, a great overview on centuries of design. Part of the graduate thesis of designer Dominic Flask, Design is History was created as a teaching tool for young designers just beginning to explore graphic design and as a reference tool for all designers. It is supposed to provide brief overviews of a wide range of topics rather than an in-depth study of only a few. It is a constantly evolving, changing, expanding reference library. More…

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    Recently published papers in  Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal include:

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    The latest issue, Volume 4, Number 4, of Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal includes:

    Design Journal – Become an Associate Editor

    As part of the process of publishing Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal all submissions are sent for peer refereeing, prior to publication. Assessment, comments and guidance by the referees are an essential part of the publication process and invaluable to the authors of the submitted papers.

    In recognition of the important role of referees, the international advisory board acknowledges all referees who have refereed papers as an ‘Associate Editor’ in the volume of the journal they have contributed to.

    If you would like to referee papers submitted to the Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, please email journals@designprinciplesandpractices.com, with your professional details, areas of expertise and contact details. If we feel you are qualified and we require refereeing for papers within your expertise, we will contact you.

    Series: On Design

    We are accepting book proposals for the imprint On Design.

    Common Ground is setting new standards of rigorous academic knowledge creation and scholarly publication.

    Unlike other publishers, we’re not interested in the size of potential markets or competition from other books. We’re only interested in the intellectual quality of the work.

    If your book is a brilliant contribution to a specialist area of knowledge that only serves a small intellectual community, we still want to publish it. If it is expansive and has a broad appeal, we want to publish it too, but only if it is of the highest intellectual quality.

    Design Journal Submissions Open

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    We are accepting submissions for Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal.

    Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal is a site of discussion exploring the meaning and purpose of ‘design’, as well as speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artefacts. The resulting conversations weave between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, market pragmatics and social idealism.

    In professional and disciplinary terms, the journal traverses a broad sweep to construct a transdisciplinary dialogue which encompasses the perspectives and practices of: anthropology, architecture, art, artificial intelligence, business, cognitive science, communication studies, computer science, cultural studies, design studies, education, e-learning, engineering, ergonomics, fashion, graphic design, history, information systems, industrial design, industrial engineering, instructional design, interior design, interaction design, interface design, journalism, landscape architecture, law, linguistics and semiotics, management, media and entertainment, psychology, sociology, software engineering, technical communication, telecommunications, urban planning and visual design.

    The journal is relevant for academics in the design and applied sciences, professions, social sciences and humanities, research students, design practitioners, industry-based designers, professionals and managers, public administrators and trainers and industry consultants.

    Refereeing of submitted papers will commence shortly so start the submission process early by submitting your proposal.

    Paper submission guidelines and timelines are available online.