![[Image: Inescapable shifts in the ways designers work have challenged many long held assumptions.]](/database/images/display/sb4baacf7062cf3.jpg "Read \"Trust and relationship building: Critical skills for the future of design education in online contexts\" by Karin Watson, Simon McIntyre and Ian McArthur")
Iridescent is a peer-reviewed online journal that seeks to establish a benchmark for innovative design research. By publishing select high quality research and making it accessible to a broad international audience this journal serves as an open platform for design discourse. Read more
Our current themes are:
Iridescent invites researchers and scholars world-wide to submit papers and essays in all design disciplines under our current themes. Papers can be submitted in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish and Russian but must include an English language abstract. Find out more.
![[Image: Movement of modern design and education in the world]](/database/images/thumbnail/sb4c75728e42611.jpg "Contemporary Forces Driving the Development of Design")
![[Image: Mr. Pan Lu Sheng]](/database/images/thumbnail/sb4c4f3b669f92b.jpg "Diversity of design education in China")
![[Image: Han Dynasty Silk Road Map]](/database/images/thumbnail/sb4c1fb5db0dc5f.jpg "Regional traits and mobility of the design culture in ancient China")