The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds focuses on theoretical and applied empirical critical rhetorical creative economic and professional approaches to the study of electronic games across platforms and genres as well as ludic and serious online environments.

The poster-maker the pamphleteer and the tagger aim to sway the popular heart and mind through visual public interventions. As new technologies rise turning the public sphere into a transparent ubiquitous communications medium and a global marketplace is the privileged status of the poster doomed or are we seeing it transformed as part of a new wave of visual rhetoric? When the environment starts to become responsive to our very presence and aware of our individual nature what is the role of the 'traditional poster' delivering a classical rhetorical message? This peer-reviewed journal aims to lead the debate. The Poster stands as a vehicle for the ideas of media theorists; scholars of Cultural Studies and Cultural Materialism; for social psychologists of visual communication for architects and designers of wayfinding schemes; for philosophers of Aesthetics and Politics Society and Linguistics; for social scientists anthropologists and ethnographers; for political campaigners and artist activists; for communications researchers and visual communications practitioners.

Art & the Public Sphere provides a new platform for academics artists curators art historians and theorists whose working practices are broadly concerned with contemporary art's relation to the public sphere. The journal presents a crucial examination of contemporary art's link to the public realm offering an engaged and responsive forum in which to debate the newly emerging series of developments within contemporary thinking society and international art practice.

What are the challenges of learning and teaching in art design and communication? The peer-reviewed journal of Art Design & Communication in Higher Education aims to inform stimulate and promote the development of research in the field by providing a forum for debate arising from findings as well as theory and methodologies.

Journal of Visual Political Communication (formerly known as The Poster) is a forum for debate about the ways in which visual devices are used to form opinion sway persuade provoke unite and divide us. This peer-reviewed journal invites all scholars and practitioners of visual culture - its social operation anthropology philosophy history politics and creation - to join with us in an open debate about the ethics aesthetics effect and operation of visual rhetoric in the public sphere. A fully refereed and peer-reviewed through a rigorous process conducted by our international Editorial Board and team of Associate Editors all selected for their ability to bring a unique insight into the applications of visual rhetoric in the public sphere and for their academic strength as researchers.

Formerly published as The Poster (ISSN 2040-3704 Online ISSN 2040-3712)

The International Journal of Food Design (IJFD) is the first academic journal entirely dedicated to Food Design research and practice. We aim at creating a platform for researchers operating in the various disciplines that contribute to the understanding of Food Design.

Although the journal is open towards different background disciplines knowledge and expertise it only focuses on collecting any Food Design-related research outcome: research that somehow combines food and Design. We define Food Design as simply the discipline that connects food and Design: Design applied to food and eating or food and eating investigated from a Design perspective. In other words among all knowledge on food and eating we look at research where Design has an important role and among all knowledge on Design we look at research that focuses on aspects of food or eating.

The Journal of Writing in Creative Practice is the official organ of the Writing Purposefully in Art and Design (Writing PAD) network. It offers art and design institutions an arena in which to explore and develop the notion of thinking through writing as a parallel to visual discourse in art and design practice. The journal aims to extend the debates to all national and international higher educational art and design institutions.

Journal of Contemporary Painting responds to the territory and practice of contemporary painting in its broadest sense viewing painting as a context for discussion exploring its sphere of history and influence rather than as a medium specific debate. The JCP combines a thematic approach with an open call each issue opening up and problematising pressing concerns in contemporary painting.

As well as contributions to current debates on contemporary art a particular feature of the Journal of Contemporary Painting is the publication of archival or newly translated texts alongside current responsive articles based on the premise that contemporary painting cannot be understood without reflecting on its history. Dedication to understanding the nature and forms of painting research has also led to the inclusions of an original visual essay for every edition. Additionally we respond to current exhibitions books and symposia nationally and internationally in our reviews section.

Our aim is to be responsive to current debates in painting and related art practices drawing from a wide geographical field and across discipline boundaries to provide a discursive space in which a range of subject specialisms can be brought to bear on the culture of painting. We are particularly interested in writing emerging from practice-based research as well as from academics working in different disciplines.

The Journal of Curatorial Studies is an international peer-reviewed publication that explores the cultural functioning of curating and its relation to exhibitions institutions audiences aesthetics and display culture. The journal takes a wide perspective in the inquiry into what constitutes ""the curatorial."" Curating has evolved considerably from the connoisseurship model of arranging objects to now encompass performative virtual and interventionist strategies. While curating as a spatialized discourse of art objects remains important the expanded cultural practice of curating not only produces exhibitions for audiences to view but also plays a catalytic role in redefining aesthetic experience framing cultural conditions in institutions and communities and inquiring into constructions of knowledge and ideology.

Drawing: Research Theory Practice promotes and disseminates drawing research with a focus on contemporary practice and its theoretical context. This journal seeks to reestablish the materiality of drawing as a medium at a time when virtual on-line electronic media dominates visuality and communication.

This peer-reviewed publication represents drawing as a significant discipline in its own right and in a diversity of forms: as an experimental practice as research as representation and/or documentation as historical and/or theoretical exploration as process or as performance. It explores the drawing discipline across fine art science and engineering media and communication psychology architecture design science and technology textiles fashion social and cultural practices.