Design and Culture seeks to establish a dynamic relationship between design and its many cultural contexts. Encompassing the numerous professional fields of design and so-called "amateur design," the journal identifies and explores the cultural roots of design process, practice and reception.
The journal aims to broaden discourse by examining design’s relation to other academic disciplines, including marketing, management, cultural studies, anthropology, material culture, geography, visual culture, or political economy as well as finding congruence between traditional, studio-based divisions within design practice, such as graphic, product, industrial, or environmental. In so doing, the journal proposes to locate and validate the study of design cultures, including history, criticism, and design practice, in the contemporary academy, especially by investigating the possible tensions posited between critical, analytical, or intellectual activity and studio-based endeavors.