This issue of “AIS/Design Journal: History and Research”, edited by Giampiero Bosoni, Elena Dellapiana and Jeffrey Schnapp, is the first in the new directorship.
It is a miscellaneous, by-invitation-only issue. Under the umbrella of “Phenomenologies of Design”, it brings together essays that, starting from robust archival foundations of a different nature, agglutinate around the phenomena that make up the definition of design and its languages of reference: semiotics, storytelling, and then product, exhibition design, fashion, graphics, and the protagonists.