Focus and Scope

Jurnal Desain publishes high-quality articles that contribute to current research and scholarly developments in design, visual art, and visual culture. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary works in fields such as Visual Communication Design, Interior Design, Architecture, Fashion Design, Product Design, Fine Art, Photography, Animation, Media Studies, Design Studies, and other related areas.

The journal covers a wide range of themes, issues, and approaches across design, visual art, and visual culture, including visual communication, typography, branding, photography, advertising, illustration, animation, film, videography, information design, editorial design, packaging design, user interface and user experience (UI/UX), interaction design, exhibition design, visual culture, aesthetics, semiotics, representation, media discourse, design history, design theory, and other related topics in art, design, and cultural inquiry.

Jurnal Desain prioritizes original empirical research articles and design studies that make a clear scholarly contribution to the fields of design, visual art, and visual culture. Manuscripts are expected to examine identifiable visual, material, spatial, digital, media-related, or practice-based research objects through an explicit and academically defensible methodological or analytical approach.

Conceptual and theoretical discussions may be considered only when they are applied to a clearly defined corpus, case, artefact, practice, or phenomenon relevant to the journal’s focus and scope.

Jurnal Desain does not accept Systematic Literature Reviews (SLR), Narrative Literature Reviews, Scoping Reviews, bibliometric studies, or other review-based manuscripts whose principal data and contribution are limited to the synthesis, mapping, classification, or analysis of previously published literature without an original empirical investigation.