Editor’s Letter

Fattori Fraser

The field of Design Studies is in its formative stage, and by virtue of its nascent status each paper engaging in the discipline is written with praxis

A Designer’s Manifesto: Designing in a Complex World

Ankita Roy

Design today is going through a period of huge transformation. As a practice, it is being redefined. Designers are formally being invited to [...]

Designing in Liquid Times: Generative Graphic Design in an Age of Uncertainty

Marlies Peeters

According to sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, we are living in “liquid times.”1 Because of [...]

The Subversive Capacity of Do-It-Yourself Instructions

Veronica Uribe Del Aguila

This issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, edited by scholar-activists Soniya Munshi and Craig Willse, explores the nonprofit and [...]

Putting Rikers on the Map

Estefanía Acosta de la Peña, Laura Sánchez & Misha Volf

The MTA and Rikers Island have a complicated relationship. Over the years the massive jailing complex has fallen on and off the subway map. [...]

Coding As Craft: Evolving Standards in Graphic Design Teaching and Practice

Sherry Saunders Freyermuth

As a professor of graphic design, I am constantly trying to figure out what tools will best prepare my students for future practice [...]

Designing for Hedonic Shopping Motives: Pinterest as a Model for E-commerce Evolution

Shelby Muter

Even though the ways in which people research, shop, and purchase items have evolved, the reasons [...]

(Hidden) Sex Toy Design: The Vesper Necklace

Maaike Taekema

The sex toy market is enjoying unprecedented growth in recent years due to increased social acceptance [...]

Form, Function, Failure

Samira Jain

Does form still follow function? In 2009, design critic Alice Rawsthorn declared the demise of the famous phrase once coined by architect Louis Sulliva

A Manifesto for Transdisciplinary Designers

Rachel M. Murray

We wrestle with wicked problems that plague our complex adaptive systems while operating in constant, continual...