A partial but massive, pixelated, lowercase “a” is layered along with other graphic elements over a red background. The title for an academic journal is visible in white above: Visible Language, volume 59, number 1, April 2025.

Published: 2025-04-27

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Invited Article

Title page for an article with standard journal typesetting.

Making Design Research Visible

Nigel Cross

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Three diagrams are labeled. The first is a representative connection of a few network nodes, described as: Students identify a problem space with a complex situation. Second is a collection of multiple node networks leading to, or synthesized as, a numbered list. It is described as: Students compare other instances of the same problem and extract shared principles; pattern-finding is integrated in the assignment. Third, icons of people appear in various fairly natural arrangements, described as: Students propose a model of the situation and compare it to those of classmates. They generate design responses and evaluate them under the model.

A Shifting Practice Paradigm Meets a Persistent Curriculum Paradigm

Meredith Davis

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The word “new” is visible in three typefaces through the pixels on a monitor, with the red, green, and blue subpixels evident.

Digital Type Challenges

Charles Bigelow, Kris Holmes

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A word cloud, with the largest and visible words being only “reading” and “screen.”

Towards Interdisciplinary: Juggling Similarities and Differences

Mary C. Dyson

55-76

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A table lists nineteen questions for evaluating typographic research, organized under the main heads: participants, test materials, measurements and criteria, the experiments, sources: authors and sponsors, and recommendations.

Nineteen Questions to Evaluate Typographic Research: Chaff and Wheat

Karel van der Waarde, Myra Thiessen

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A table displays a few covers of past issues of the journal Visible Language.

Visible Language Evolves

Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl

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Editorial

A diagram shows a hierarchical structure for Visible Language governance. An executive board includes Editor Mike Zender, Editor-in-Chief Maria Lonsdale, and Editor Matthew Peterson, from University of Cincinnati, of Leeds, and NC State University, respectively. It is stated that the three executive board members have equal contributions and decision-making. Beneath this is a listing of the editorial board. Each institution has an associate editor and assistant editor under the executive role. Leeds additionally has an editorial manager position.

In with the New!

Maria dos Santos Lonsdale

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