Journal of Design History

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Design History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender and the Politics of Power in Design3
Unmaking Waste: New Histories of Old Things2
Obituary: Frederike Huygen 1956-20232
Design Struggles: Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, and Perspectives2
Post-Craft2
De la tierra somos. Tradición y exploraciones en barro. (To the earth we belong. Tradition and explorations in clay.), Centro de las Artes de San Agustín Etla (CaSa), Oaxaca, México, 27 May–8 October 1
The Dynamics of Modern Asian Design: Material Culture and Social Agency.Sandy Ng and Megha Rajguru (eds.)1
Design’s chromatic modernity1
Dansk DesignHistorie 1+2, Lars Dybdahl1
The Lady in the Overall: First World War Patriotism, Respectability, and Workwear of Upper-Class Munitionettes1
Taking a Stand? Debating the Bauhaus and ModernismImpact! From Bauhaus to IKEA1
Designs on Democracy: Architecture and the Public in Interwar London1
Industrial Craft in Australia: Oral Histories of Creativity and Survival1
Critical Ethics for Communicating Indigenous Craft Practices1
Fashioning the Afropolis: Histories, Materialities and Aesthetic Practices1
Copyist or Creative? The Emergence of the Woman Fashion Artist in Britain, 1880–19201
Arndís Sigríður Árnadóttir 1940-20231
Richard Riemerschmid’s Extraordinary Living Things1
Young Poland: The Polish Arts and Crafts Movement, 1890–19181
History and Legacy of Isotype0
Frank Barr: Avant-Garde Designer in Mid-Century Chicago?0
Radical Play: Revolutionizing Children’s Toys in 1960s and 1970s America, Rob GoldbergPlayhouses and Privilege: The Architecture of Elite Childhood, Abigail A. Van Slyck0
Introduction: The Bauhaus Centennial and Design History0
In Between Breaths: Memories, Stories, and Otherwise Design Histories0
Design History and Culture: Methods and Approaches0
Contested Seats: Knoll in Iran0
“Young nations love tents”: The “ Mostra dell’Attrezzatura Coloniale ” [Exhibition of Colonial Equipment] and the Staging of Italian Imperialism at the V0
Mondrian’s Dress: Yves Saint Lauren, Piet Mondrian, and Pop Art0
“Art déco: Il trionfo della modernità” [Art Déco: The Triumph of Modernity], Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy, 27 February – 29 June 2025. Art déco: Il trionfo della modernità 0
The Dot: Statistics, Society, and Graphic Design, c. 1830–19700
Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest0
Fredric Jameson (1934–2024)0
Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy0
Witchcraft as Ontological Designing: Assemblage and More-Than-Human Relationality in Latin American Brujería (Sixteenth–Eighteenth centuries)0
Open Plan: A Design History of the American OfficeThe Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information0
“Something really very odd and singularly appropriate:” The Fashionable Swastika in the US Before 19390
From ASCII Art to Comic Sans: Typography and Popular Culture in the Digital Age0
Deviant Design: the Ad Hoc, the Illicit, the Controversial0
Neoliberalizing Design and the State: The Political Origins of Australian Design Policy and Design Education Reform, 1987–19910
The Foreign Designer: Antoinette Krasnik and the Wiener Moderne0
On Being Simultaneously Arab and “Modern”: Saloua Raouda Choucair’s Design Between Science and Sufism0
International Design Organizations: Histories, Legacies, Values0
Conspicuous Consumption in the Prairie House: A Veblenian Reading of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Highbacked Dining Chair0
Luxury After the Terror0
Histories of Exhibition Design in the Museum: Makers, Process, and Practice0
Being a Female Textile Artist in State-Socialist Poland: Revisiting Magdalena Abakanowicz’s Early Career0
US Critics and Racial Anxiety at the 1925 Exposition0
Book Arts as Archives of Decolonization: The Design and Visuality of Arabic Books (1950s–1980s)0
Becoming Imperial Brands: Japanese Advertising in Colonial Korea, 1920–19320
Jugendstil Women and the Making of Modern Design0
Introduction: Toward a Design History of the Occult0
Follow the Boots: A Case Study of Design and Global Value Chains0
Lineages and Legacies for Collecting Digital Design0
Danger in the Path of Chic: Violence and Fashion Between the Wars0
Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery0
Digital Design History: State of the Field, Definitions and Possibilities0
Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy0
Untold Histories of Fashion, Crafts, Artisanship, and Style in the Archives of Italy’s Former Colonial Museum in Rome0
Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960-1980: Revolt and Resilience0
Ghislaine Wood on the Art Deco 1910–1939 Exhibition, 20030
Designing Educational and Home Computers in State Socialism: The Polish and Czechoslovak Experience0
Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis. Julia Secklehner; Czechoslovakia at the Worldʼs Fairs: Behind the Façade. Marta Fillipová0
Designing through Planetary Breakdown: Locating Material Knowledge and Practical Skill. Jesse Adams Stein and Chantel Carr (eds)0
Ecological by Design: A History from Scandinavia0
On the Job: A History of American Work Uniforms0
Design and Modernity in Asia: National Identity and Transnational Exchange 1945–19900
Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement0
Exhibition as Interior, Interior as Exhibition, Spaces of Display within and beyond the Museum and Gallery.0
Janja Lap: Distancing Oneself from a Servile Identity0
House and Home in Georgian Ireland, Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life0
Medium and Managerial Expertise: Orthogonal Drawing and Advertising in T.M. Cleland’s The New Cadillac (1928)0
Crafted with Pride, Queer Craft and Activism in Contemporary Britain0
Here We Are: Women in Design 1900-Today, Furniture Museum Vienna, 1 March–30 June 20240
Netherlands ⇄ Bauhaus. Pioneers of a New World0
At Home in Renaissance Bruges: Connecting Objects, People and Domestic Spaces in a Sixteenth-Century City0
Hibernia the Lacemaker: Reading Gender, Class, and Empire in the Discourse of Nineteenth-century Irish Lace0
Unlearning Ableism: Design Knowledge, Contested Models, and the Experience of Disability in 1970s Berkeley0
Marie Neurath: Designing Bilston’s Housing Exhibition0
“Moroccan” Artek: Colonized Textiles within 1930s Modernist Interiors0
John A. Walker (1938 – 2023)0
Contemporary Visions: Refiguring The Esoteric; The Transformational Act of “Making” Magic0
Il design e l’invenzione del Made in ItalyA New History of “Made in Italy”: Fashion and Textiles in Post-War Italy0
IKEA-Land: A Counter-Catalogue0
Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist Exhibitions in Britain, 1933-530
Furnishing Fascism: Modernist Design and Politics in Italy, Ignacio G. Galán0
The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History0
Knitting and Crochet in My Weekly , Woman’s Weekly , and Woman’s Own 0
Fashion and Feeling: The Affective Politics of Dress0
Ornament and Symbol in French Romantic Architecture: Simon-Claude Constant-Dufeux.Ralph Ghoche. McGill-Queensʼ University Press, 2025. 304 pp., 134 col. illus., cloth, $80.00. I0
Co-option or Recognition? Second-wave Feminist Politics and the Frigidaire Australia Women’s Design Conference, 19800
Pipsan Saarinen Swanson’s Life Model Home: Mediation and Mythmaking in Postwar America0
Gestalterinnen, Frauen, Design und Gesellschaft im Wien der Zwischenkriegszeit/Women Designers: Design and Society in Inter-war Vienna. Edited by Elana Shapira and Anne-Katrin Rossberg0
Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior0
“Explorations” Introduction for Issue 38.10
The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige. Mariela Acuña and Allison Peters Quinn (eds), Green Lantern Press at the Hyde Park Art Center and University of Minnesota Press, 2025. 100
London Couture and the Making of a Fashion CenterPrêt-à-Porter, Paris and Women: A Cultural Study of French Readymade Fashion, 1945-680
Enlightened Eclecticism: The Grand Design of the 1st Duke and Duchess of NorthumberlandLondon’s ‘Golden Mile’ The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550–16500
Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia0
Designing Transformation: Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism0
“Kingsway leads the way to modern living”: British Profit-seeking and Modernism in Ghana and Nigeria 1920–19700
Correction to: Charlotte Benton 1944 – 20240
Art Deco Centenary: An Introduction0
Before Infographics: Diagram’s Role in Shaping Information Design for General Audiences through Pre-Digital Book Packaging0
Magic and Materialism: Fortune Telling and the Culture of Enchantment, 1919–19390
Rethinking Fashion Globalization0
African Motors: Technology, Gender and the History of Development0
“From the Ground Up: Black Architects and Designers”, Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, USA (4 February–30 April, 2023)0
Mine Craft: New Design Histories of Mining0
“Thrice Precious Tube!”: Negotiating the Visibility and Efficiency of Early Hearing Aids0
Digital Design: A History. Stephen J. Eskilson, Princeton University Press, 2023. 296 pp., 155 col. illus., paper, £42.00. 13 digit ISBN: 9780691181394.0
John Langrish (1935–2024)0
Special Issue of the Journal of Design History: Design History and Digital Material Culture0
Cosmopolitan Radicalism: The Visual Politics of Beirut’s Global Sixties0
Charlotte Benton 1944 – 20240
Architecture after CovidInteriors in the Era of Covid-19: Interior Design between the Public and Private Realms0
Plastic MatterPlastic Legacies: Pollution, Persistence, and Politics0
Lifestyle Revolution: How Taste Changed Class in Late Twentieth Century Britain0
Seeds for New Beginnings? Ecological Uncertainty, Blurry Ideology, and Speculative Design at the Universitas Symposium, 19720
Redeeming Objects: A West German Mythology0
Self-transcendence: Design Criticism in the 1928 Shanghai Exhibition of National Products0
Envisioning the Future by Design: Toyota’s Show Cars at the 1969 and 1970 Tokyo Motor Shows0
Surface Matters: The Cover Art of Gongxian and Modern Design in Republican China (1911–1949)0
Transnational Discourses in Nordic Design. astrid skjerven & rachel gotlieb (eds)0
Disobedience as Usual: Why Design Activists Need Historians0
Masculinity, Fashion, and Design History0
Synthetic Paradoxes: Moving with the Dematerialization of Plastic Design0
Liquid Forms: Questions for a Design History of Water0
Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici at Vézelay0
The Bauhaus Centennial in International Publications0
Off the Grid: Histories of Belgian Graphic Design. Sara de Bondt (ed.), Occasional Papers, 2022. 272 pp., paper, £20. ISBN: 978-0-9954730-8-9.0
The Fabric of Resistance: Textile Workshops and the Rise of Rebellious Landscapes in Colonial Peru0
Homo oeconomicus and the Free Worker: For an Alternative History of “Les Années 1925”0
Call for Papers: Journal of Design History, Designing for Disability Futures0
Design in Motion: Film Experiments at the BauhausDesigning Russian Cinema: The Production Artist and the Material Environment in Silent Era Film0
Domestic Space in France and Belgium: Art, Literature and Design (1850–1920)0
Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World0
Totalitarian Aesthetics in Visual Representations of People on Paper Monies in Europe from the 1920s to the 1940s0
After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet: A History of Graphic Design Pedagogy0
The Future Sign Language: A Critical History of Aicher’s Ideas About Signs and Pictograms for the 1972 Munich Olympics0
No More Giants: J.M. Richards, Modernism and the Architectural Review0
Review Essay, When Design Does Politics0
Situating the Bauhaus in Cold War Germany0
Radical Pedagogies0
Fashion and Image as Anthropographic Elements in Nineteenth-century Colombia0
The Strange Case of the Reception of Art Deco: Reflections and Speculations0
Knoll by West’s: Unearthing Local Stories Through a Transnational Design History0
“How we live and how we might live”: Design and the spirit of critical utopianism0
Picturing National History: Turkey’s Popular Nationalism on the Rise Through the 1950s New Print Culture0
Listening to Things and Spaces: Sound Archives for Design Historians0
“This man represents China”: The Racist Rhetoric of “object lessons” in W. W. Peter’s Health Lectures0
Underground Mathematics: Craft Culture and Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe0
(Dis)Continuing a Legacy: How Three Italian Women Architects Transformed the Knoll Look0
Frances Burke: Designer of Modern TextilesA Dark, A Light, A Bright: The designs of Dorothy Liebes0
P. Morton Shand and the Promotion of Alvar Aalto0
A Spirited Way to a Rational Home: Cultivating Normativity through the Victorian Spiritualist Interior0
Inhabited Machines: Genealogy of an Architectural ConceptProzessarchitekturen: Medien Der Betriebsorganisation (1880–1936)0
Balenciaga, licensee of Maison Vionnet0
Josef Albers, Late Modernism and Pedagogic Form0
Call for Papers for Special Issue of the Journal of Design History0
“The credit of priority”: The Japanese Collection Loaned From the Netherlands to The Great Industrial Exhibition, Dublin, 18530
Nature Inside: Plants and Flowers in the Modern Interior0
The Architecture of Social Reform: Housing, Tradition, and German Modernism0
Designing Public Secrecy: Kongfz.com and the Digital Trade in Cultural Revolution Objects0
Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture: Unsettled Matter. Elodie A. Roy0
A Rhapsody of Chairs0
Creating Meanings in the Scandinavian Unisex: Visual and Textual Representations of the Striped Clothing Designs by Nørgaard paa Strøget (1967), Marimekko (1968), and Polarn O. Pyret (1975)0
Craftworkers in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Making and Adapting in an Industrial Age0
“A Leg Lamp Story”0
How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design. Hugo Palmarola, Eden Medina, Pedro Ignacio Alonso (eds), Hugo Palmarola0
Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment: A Cultural History0
Designed for Life: Architecture and Design in Cork City, 1900–90. Tom Spalding, Cork University Press, 2025. 388 pp, cloth, £45.00. ISBN 9781782050193.0
Modelling the Metropolis: The Architectural Model in Victorian LondonA History of Architectural Model Making in Britain: The Unseen Masters of Scale and Vision0
The Art and Craft of the Border: Reginald W. Machell’s Theosophical Woodwork0
Unworking: The Reinvention of the Modern Office0
Xanti Schawinsky and the Fascist Plebiscitary Elections of 1934: Everyday Design Practice and Visual Culture in Early 1930’s Italy0
The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary: Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth CenturyLiberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire: Museums of Design, Industry and Applied Arts0
Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories0
Political Campaign Design and Recent Technologies: The Case of Indonesia0
Knoll International Canada: A Bellwether of Changing Attitudes in Internationalism and Nationalism0
Exploring the Unseen: Archival Ethnography of Rejected Applications at the Ulm School of Design (HfG Ulm)0
Imitation and Piracy in Paisley Shawl Design, 1805–18700
Dressing Up: A History of Fancy Dress in Britain0
Moving Objects: A Cultural History of Emotive Design0
Fashion and Motherhood, Image, Material, Identity. Laura Snelgrove (ed.), Designing Motherhood, Things that make and break our births. Michelle Millar Fisher & Amber Winick (eds.).0
Bridget Wilkins (1943-2025)0
Evelyn & William De Morgan: A Marriage of Arts & Crafts0
Design and Heritage: The Construction of Identity and Belonging0
Innovation and Revivalism: Powell & Sons’ Opus Sectile Mosaic0
Exhibitions Beyond Boundaries: Transnational Exchanges through Art, Architecture, and Design 1945-19850
Wild Design in China’s Lifestyle Magazines (1978–1992)0
Art Without Heroes: Mingei, A Century of Japanese Craft, William Morris Gallery, London, 23 March- 22 September 20240
“‘Fairy Tale’. Childhood in Lithuania in the late Soviet era”: Kaunas Picture Gallery, 12th December 2024 – 27th July 2025.0
After Universal Design: The Disability Design Revolution0
Examining the “unearthly archives”: Spiritualism, Psychical Research, and Psychometric Material Culture in the US and Britain0
Spaces of Tokyo: Commercial Art and Book Design in the Work of Komura Settai0
Taking Travel Home: The Souvenir Culture of British Women Tourists, 1750-18300
The Fine Art of Persuasion: Corporate Advertising Design, Nation and Empire in Modern Japan, Gennifer Weisenfeld0
Domestic Space in Britain, 1750–1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion0
Julia Keiner’s Universalism and the Question of Israeli style0
Designing Modern Japan0
Jet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motion0
The Industrialized Designer: Gender, Identity and professionalisation in Britain and the United States, 1930-80, Leah Armstrong0
Curating Design: Context, Culture and Reflective Practice0
On Packaging: Eskimo Pie’s Magic Jar0
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