Editorials
Éditorial n°11
In our last editorial, we sensed that a new life cycle was beginning for our journal. Our eleventh thematic issue revisits this idea, in its own way. Indeed, it aims to shed light on design from its origin(s), its Matrices. The question posed by Céline Caumon and Jérémie Elalouf is indeed pertinent: to grasp the ungraspable, this field being absent from the title of section 18 of the CNU (National Council of Universities), shouldn't we go back to where it all began?
- 2025/12
Éditorial n°10
The tenth issue marks the end of a cycle for our magazine. This round number, in the form of an anniversary, is an opportunity to take stock. What have become of our columns and our contributors?
- 2025/12
Thematic Issues
Les matrices disciplinaires du design
The term design is now used in so many fields that it is difficult to pinpoint what unifies the discipline. In this context, the aim of this eleventh issue is to reflect on the situations that have enabled it to take shape. Based on the assumption that the design community is situated between science and society, between the laboratory and the field, the aim here is to encourage thinkers, designers and practitioners to come together, positioning themselves in relation to the dominant practices and discourses in order to re-establish a common approach.
- 2025/11
Design et abstractions
This ninth issue focuses on the study of relationships between design and abstractions, in the context of its creative and inventive/innovative approaches (also tactical, strategic ones), as well as its methods and tools for both projection/anticipation and implementation.
- 2025/06
Reviews
Victor Guegan, Après la typographie. Imprimerie industrielle et avant-gardes artistiques.
Issu de la thèse de doctorat de Victor Guégan, Après la typographie. Imprimerie industrielle et avant-gardes artistiques est une relecture contemporaine des enjeux de la Nouvelle Typographie. Partant du constat que le procédé technique de la typographie disparaît avec son industrialisation, l’auteur rend compte de la mutation du rôle du typographe.
- 2025/11
Catherine Chomarat-Ruiz, À l'écoute du design, une théorie critique
Listening to Design: A Critical Theory is a "hybrid" book that can be confusing. Neither quite a work that traces the history or evolution of design along a linear temporal continuum, nor quite a work of design theory per se, this book offers a new reading of this field, a sort of Deleuzo-Guatarian "line of flight" that approaches design as a process in "becoming" that is simultaneously historical, theoretical, and practical. This rereading of design—through the prism of this permanent triptych—encourages us to move away from the types of tree-like, common knowledge production that can be perceived as redundant when we are interested in design.
- 2025/12
Words of Authors
Le design et ses pratiques (volet 3). Une affaire de communs
This new dossier contains around thirty interviews conducted with French and foreign designers. The objective of this survey is to identify how these professionals understand the commons, their encounters with this type of organization, etc., and their possible participation in a "critical commons" dedicated to design research. This fieldwork, conducted thanks to students from the Master 2 Design, Arts, Media (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), thus aims to test the hypotheses formulated within the research seminar "Towards a Critical Theory of Design." These interviews are preceded by a summary.
- 2025/06
Cycle de conférences/rencontres avec des chercheurs (5)
This file follows a cycle of conferences with researchers and professionals from design, the arts and the media. It brings together the podcasts and the reports of the eight sessions that took place at Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2024-2025
- 2025/06
Varia
Glass in contemporary sculpture
Cet article analyse l'utilisation du verre, le processus de fabrication du verre et ses perspectives dans l'art contemporain à travers des exemples d'expressions artistiques diverses et de différents médiums artistiques. Le verre et les techniques associées sont traditionnellement associés aux arts appliqués. Moins connues sont les pratiques artistiques contemporaines qui utilisent principalement le verre dans leur expression. L'objectif de cet article est de questionner ce matériau, ses qualités et son potentiel dans l'art contemporain, en particulier dans le domaine de la sculpture. Une autre question qui se pose est celle de savoir comment les caractéristiques du verre peuvent être interprétées différemment d'un point de vue sculptural, pictural ou d'installation. En conséquence, l'article examine la notion de contemporanéité et les valeurs dans l'art contemporain.
- 2024/12
Fast publication : l’homogénéisation visuelle des templates web comme conséquence du prêt-à-publier
Why do web templates look so similar ? Studying the different actors involved in the standardization of templates, we show that templates are now less seen as starting points and more as *ready-to-publish* solutions. Template catalogs focus on the visual aspect of templates so that non-professionals can more easily relate to them. Stock images act as primary design elements and relegates layout and web design editing to mere customization.
- 2024/12
Call for papers
Théories critiques du design, Pensées critiques, Traductions sensibles
The eleventh thematic issue of the journal Design, Arts, Médias concerns the critical theory of design and aims to continue exploring two avenues opened up during seminars and study days. These are, on the one hand, the link between theories and critical thought, and on the other hand, the sensitive translations of theories.
- 2025/12
Les matrices disciplinaires du design
Design thinking, design management, design strategy, design innovation… Many practices today claim the term design, to the point that one might wonder what constitutes the common denominator of such a diverse collection. Doesn't such appropriation indicate that the ideas conveyed by the term design have become consensual, and that the discipline is undergoing an identity crisis? The challenge of this call for papers is that the notion of a disciplinary matrix, proposed by Thomas Kuhn in the afterword to his 1969 work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, can help us consider such issues. Indeed, it offers a methodological framework for reflecting on what might constitute the unity of the discipline, but also for diagnosing the causes of its fragmentation.
- 2025/12