Design as Scholarship | Submission Guidelines

JAE seeks conceptually innovative design work, studio teaching, and exhibition projects that explore critical issues in contemporary design, practice, education, and discourse. The editors are interested in work that understands the design process not just as a formal proposition but as a mode of critical inquiry. Alternative strategies for the presentation of this work -- interviews and other forms of collaborations between designers and critics, writers, or scholars, for instance -- are welcomed.

The author's name, nor the names of any project participants, should not appear in the submission. Authors may only have one design manuscript under consideration at any given time.

Submissions are reviewed at semi-annual juries by the Design Committee, a panel of design educators and professionals assembled from the JAE Editorial Board. The submission will be available to the jury members for advance review. The graphic format should anticipate how the project will appear in the publication. Projects provisionally accepted at the jury undergo an editorial process following the recommendations of the Design Committee and in consultation with the Design Editor. Revised and formatted submissions approved by the Design Editor are forwarded to the Executive Editor for final acceptance.