From Dezeen…

Dezeen teamed up with Design Association in Japan to give designers free exhibition space at the Environmental Design and Art Container Exhibition in Tokyo from 29 October to 3 November this year.

Each of the 18 winners will be given a free 20ft container space at the Environmental Container Exhibition at Jingu-Gaien in central Tokyo,  plus an installation and construction budget of up to 300,000 Yen for international winners and 200,000 for Japanese winners. More…

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

• The Charrette: An Interdisciplinary Academic Tool by Lauren Karwoski-Magee and Debra Ruben.
• Two Modes of Artificiality: Systems and Whole by Ahmet Zeki Turan.
• Role of Vaastu in Contemporary Residential Design by Shubhra Kannan and Vibhavari Jani.
• Exploring Privacy in Indian, Algerian and Nigerian Dwellings from an Environmental Behavioral Perspective by Vibhavari Jani, Amor Cherif and Abimbola Asojo.
• Architectural Design Principles of Public Spaces Based on Social Sustainability Approach: A Case Study in Ardabil, Iran by Iman Raeisi, Alireza Kharazmi Nezhad and Maryam Hafezifar.

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

Volume 4, Number 5 contains:

• Emerging Concepts of Democracy in Design in the 20th Century by Cigdem Kaya.
• Triggers and Tactics: Resonance in Visual Design by Veronika Kelly.
• Study about the Formation and Assessment Factors in Urban Collective Memory, and their Effects on Architectural Design by Ehsan Nazarzadeh and Niloufar Zarei.
• The Application of Principles of Creativity from Design Practice Across Other Specialist Disciplines: Case Studies in Cross-Disciplinary Application of Creative Design Problem Solving Approaches by Stuart Gluth.
• Practice Makes Practitioner: The Role of Peer and Self Evaluations in Design Education by Michael W. Seymour.

• The Charrette: An Interdisciplinary Academic Tool by Lauren Karwoski-Magee and Debra Ruben.
• Two Modes of Artificiality: Systems and Whole by Ahmet Zeki Turan.
• Role of Vaastu in Contemporary Residential Design by Shubhra Kannan and Vibhavari Jani.
• Exploring Privacy in Indian, Algerian and Nigerian Dwellings from an Environmental Behavioral Perspective by Vibhavari Jani, Amor Cherif and Abimbola Asojo.
• Architectural Design Principles of Public Spaces Based on Social Sustainability Approach: A Case Study in Ardabil, Iran by Iman Raeisi, Alireza Kharazmi Nezhad and Maryam Hafezifar.
• Reflecting, Rethinking, Reforming: Exploring the Power, Purpose, and Potential of Design Activity by Christy Carr Schellhas.
• Verbal Thinking in the Design Process: Internal and External Communication of Architectural Creation by Robert Barelkowski.
• A 21st-Century Revitalization of the Ancient Scientific Approach to the Design of the New Products by Seyed Mohammad Bagher Ghazi Mir Saeid.
• Construction Critical: Technology and Innovation in a New Era of Practice by Michael Gibson.
• Ludic Architecture: Playful Tools for Participation in Spatial Design by Harriet Harriss.
• Perceptive Adjectives and Eco-Efficiency Indicators: A Methodology to Choose Good Materials for a Sustainable Project by Beatrice Lerma and Claudia De Giorgi.
• Interdisciplinary Service Learning in a Design Studio: A Hospice Design Project by Anubhuti Thakur and R. Dale Conner.
• Conceptual Design, Perceptual Design, and Functional Design: Toward a Taxonomy of Design by Nuzhat Haneef.
• Challenges in Applying the American Design Curriculum in the Gulf Region by Mona Kamal Ismail.
• Usability Study of the Motorola Razr V3 Cellphone by Kimberly Melhus.

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

• A Quantitative Comparison between Wright’s Prairie Style and Triangle-Plan Usonian Houses using Fractal Analysis by Josephine Vaughan and Michael J. Ostwald.
• Creating Outdoor Early Childhood Environments: Design Strategies and Resources by Heather Olsen, Donna Thompson, Susan Hudson and Sara Kreiss.
• A Semiotic Analysis of Duplicative Redundancy in Commercial Architectural Signals: Design in Ambulatory Spatial Structures and in Sign and Typographical Transmissions by Paul Matthew St. Pierre.
• Consumer Responses to Retail Display Design Features by Sarah Fister, Chihmin Ti and Leslie Davis Burns.
• ‘Unity in Diversity’ among Design Principles by S. Saleem Ahmed.
• No Sets Please, We’re British! Realist Traditions of British Film Production Design by Laurie N. Ede.
• Materializing Craft: Evaluating the Effects of Experiencing Actual Materials during the Design Process by Einat Leader.

• Practical Learning in the VisualDESIGNLab: Designing for Clients in an Undergraduate Academic Environment by Patricia Murphey.
• Challenging Place with Narrative: The Progress towards a Performance by William MacMahon.
• Creative Idea Generation as a Basis for a Foundation Program in Design by Ron Corso.
• Mobile User Interface for Seniors: An Impact of Ageing Population on Mobile Design by Chui Yin Wong, Chee Weng Khong and Harold Thwaites.
• Enhancing Visual Communication in Typographic Design: Arranging Forms, Formatting Grids, Utilizing Spaces, and Creating Rhythms by Soo C. Hostetler.
• Evaluation of an Obesity Simulation Suit: Subjective and Physiological Assessment by Hyunjee Kim and Sharon Joines.
• Learn by Looking: Exercises in Resensitizing the Design Student by Amy Johnson and Rukmini Ravikumar.
• Analysis and Computation: Sustainable Design in Practice by Ajla Aksamija.

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

• Eco Literacy: An Eco Web Greening Public Imagination by Linda Keane and Mark Keane.
• How to Add Feminist Approaches into Design Courses by Sharra Vostral and Deana McDonagh.
• Methods in Digital Architectural Design: Understanding the Aspects That Enable a Re-Active, Two-Way Communication in the Digital Architectural Design Education by Andrei Gheorghe.
• Icon Designs on Public Payphones in Malaysia by Chee Weng Khong, Chui Yin Wong and Stanley Richardson.
• Balancing Market, State and Civil Society: A New Practice Model for Design by Keith Owens.
• Exploring Craft to Teach Creativity by Karen Cordes-Spence and David Beach.
• Becoming a Design Coach: Shifting Pedagogy to Engage Design Thinking through Collaborative and Active Learning by Valerie Sloan.

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.

We are accepting book proposals for the imprint On Design.

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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.

To those of you that joined us at the 2010 Design Conference in Chicago, or if you’ve participated in a previous conference, please share your photos of the conference with your friends and colleagues that you met while at the conference. Pictures of the conference sessions, dinner, tours and ‘down time’ are all welcome!

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