[ecrea] The Poster: Call for Papers

Call for Papers: the editors of The Poster are now seeking submissions


The designer acts as a constructor of artificiality by designing 
cultural interface artifacts. By analyzing the poster/artifact through 
its visual rhetoric, The Poster asks if it is possible to perceive and 
reveal the contours of its poesis construction. The identification of 
moments of formal rupture corresponds to a focus upon the relationship 
between authorial dynamics, technologies and programmes, and the 
constraints that these impose upon the designer’s freedom.


Thus, at any given moment, the resulting of visual rhetoric of the 
posters represents one possible manifestation of these complexities. The 
Poster seeks contributions based in interpretation, culture and 
attention to social signals that characterize a time and a space, using 
design history as a tool to discover particularities of the poster at 
visual rhetoric level and from the following perspectives: How did the 
concept of the poster evolve over time its role in setting the terms of 
the debate in the public sphere? How does authorship assume innovation, 
valorization, singularity, intention/desire and identity on the poster? 
How does technology variation, with its means of production and 
reproduction, its normalization and its rule affect the poster? How do 
the technologies of production enforce a graphic ‘flavour’ that comes to 
define and how does subversion of these means signal dissent? How does 
the programme affect the poster by the specifications of the features 
and special characteristics demanded by clients?


Articles

Articles should be provided as MS Word (.doc or .docx), Open Document 
Text (.odt) or Rich Text Format (.RTF) files with low-resolution images 
(72dpi) included in the text at the intended positions in the text: full 
print resolution images will be called for later. You can send us both 
colour and greyscale images. Please help us out by using the Heading 1 
(H1, H2, H3) and Text Body styles in the first instance as this, and the 
indication of position of the images, helps us enormously in the editing 
and production of the final document. Papers should be between 5000 and 
8000 words long. Once a paper is accepted we’ll ask for the full 
resolution images.


Visual contributions

These contributions must make an explicable narrative point. They should 
be presented, in the first instance, as low-resolution .jpg or .png 
files (72 dpi), numbered in the order in which they should be read (if 
ambiguity is the intent please help us out by sending us a visual that 
explains their intended organization). Please include (as either 
metadata or on an accompanying list) details of copyright, authorship 
and ownership.


Reviews

Reviews should be between 1000 and 2000 words long and if they carry 
images or excerpts of the reviewed material should be copyright cleared 
with the author or the owners of the intellectual copyright.


Submissions

Please send submissions for the special issue to Helena Barbosa at 
(helenab /at/ ua.pt) or submit at: 
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=181/ and use 
the red ‘Submit’ button.


Journal's URL: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=181/

View the free issue online: 
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/post/2010/00000001/00000001


Editors
Simon Downs, Loughborough University | (s.t.downs /at/ lboro.ac.uk)

Malcolm Barnard, Loughborough University | (m.barnard /at/ lboro.ac.uk)

Mel Jordan, Loughborough University | (m.jordan /at/ lboro.ac.uk)

Jaime Gomez, Universidad de Guadalajara | (jaime.gomez /at/ cuaad.udg.mx)

Leong Chan, University of New South Wales | (l.chan /at/ unsw.edu.au)

Helena Barbosa, University of Aveiro | (helenab /at/ ua.pt)

Robert Harland, Loughborough University | (r.g.harland /at/ lboro.ac.uk)

The Poster, published by Intellect, first published in 2010, 2 issues 
per volume

ISSN: 20403704 | Online ISSN: 20403712



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