The Journal of Illustration provides an international forum for scholarly research and investigation of a range of cultural, political, philosophical, historical, and contemporary issues, in relation to illustration. This peer-reviewed journal encourages new critical writing on illustration, associated visual communication, and the role of the illustrator as maker, visualizer, thinker, and facilitator, within a wide variety of disciplines and professional contexts. This title is indexed with the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

Focusing on drawing as a significant discipline in its own right, Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice is a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates ongoing international debates within the wider fields of its practice and research. A vibrant, proactive forum for contemporary ideas, the journal is a platform for interdisciplinary and cross-cultural dissemination of all forms of drawing practice and theory. This title is indexed with Scopus. For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

Studies in Comics aims to describe the nature of comics, to identify the medium as a distinct art form and to address the medium's formal properties. The emerging field of comics studies is a model for interdisciplinary research and this peer-reviewed journal welcomes all approaches and methodologies. Its specific goal, however, is to expand the relationship between comics and theory and to seek to articulate a 'theory of comics'. This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

Animation Practice, Process & Production is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal presenting, analysing and exploring how animation is created and shown. Animation encompasses a huge variety of practices, many of them unacknowledged or underexplored. This journal attempts to bring all types of animation to the fore and to present insight and analysis about the practice, process and production of such work. For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

What are the challenges of learning and teaching in art, design and communication? The peer-reviewed journal of Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education aims to inform, stimulate and promote the development of research in the field by providing a forum for debate arising from findings as well as theory and methodologies. This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

Design Ecologies describes a burgeoning field that promotes ecological transitions within local and global contexts. This peer-reviewed journal builds communities and discusses themes that cross over, into and out of architecture, environment, interaction, urbanism, performing arts and communication. For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

The Journal of Contemporary Painting (JCP) is a discursive peer-reviewed publication concerned with the practice of contemporary painting in its broadest sense. JCP treats painting as a context for discussion, exploring its sphere of influence, rather than as a medium-specific debate and is particularly interested in research emerging from practice-based projects. This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

The aim of Craft Research is to advocate and promote current and emerging craft research, including research into materials, processes, methods, concepts, aesthetic and style. This may be in any discipline area of the applied arts and crafts, including craft education. The journal will portray and build the crafts as a vital and viable modern discipline that has a vision for the future. It is distinct from mainstream journals in that it is dedicated to presenting and reporting on research, in the widest sense, in order to advance the knowledge in the field. Making this knowledge, in whatever form, available to the community will help build and advance the field, and present it – in all its diversity – as a strong and essential force that cannot be overlooked. All articles are double-blind peer-reviewed in order to maintain the highest standards of scholastic integrity. This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

Philosophy of Photography is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the scholarly understanding of photography. It is not committed to any one notion of photography nor, indeed, to any particular philosophical approach. The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for debate on theoretical issues arising from the historical, political, cultural, scientific and critical matrix of ideas, practices and techniques that may be said to constitute photography as a multifaceted form. In a contemporary context remarkable for its diversity and rate of change, the conjunction of the terms 'philosophy' and 'photography' in the journal’s title is intended to act as a provocation to serious reflection on the ways in which existing and emergent photographic discourses might engage with and inform each other. This title is indexed with the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

JAWS is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes new art and writing from early- to mid-career researchers and practitioners working across creative disciplines. JAWS publishes writing about art and writing as art. We welcome practice-based research, visual essays, book reviews and interviews by emergent practitioners and researchers. Supporting criticality and experimentation in arts writing, the journal connects authors to an international audience. JAWS welcomes divergent and/or unconventional forms, as well as more traditional submissions. For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe, visit the Discover platform here. From volume 11 (2025), JAWS: Journal of Arts Writing by Students will be published as JAWS: Journal of Art & Writing.

A compelling case for vision-based pedagogy. It provides a wealth of insights, guidance, and exercises grounded in Gestalt perceptual theory and neurological research. The premise is that a student of drawing or painting must develop skills to see and create, using ground-directed looking rather than object-directed looking. 107 b/w illus. Watch Michael Torlen's mini doc on Studio Seeing hereAccess Chapter 5: Beyond Face or Vase for free here

Multimodality is of increasing relevance to daily life. Comics are a unique and informative site to study this concept, as they rely on complex interactions between word and image. This collection brings together leading international research, developing comics theory and speaking to additional media and disciplines. 53 b&w and 6 col. illus.

An edited collection consisting of essays and artworks by distinguished and emerging theorists, artists, and scholars. It explains how our contemporary moment is absurd and how absurdity is a useful, potentially radical tool within the contemporary.35 b&w illus.

Dedicated to the stories of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and exiles, this collection explores the entanglements of art and aesthetic practices with migration, flight, enforced dislocation and border/border crossings in global contexts – a significant phenomenon of social transformation in the 20th and 21st centuries. 131 b/w illus.

A holistic guide to finding and cultivating the art that you alone were born to make. Through a series of exercises, artists peel away the cultural and psychological obstacles to building a resonant life, and dig deeply into their own unique identities and experiences to unearth and intensify their idiosyncratic visual voice. 22 b&w illus.Listen to Kate Kretz' 'Beyond Cheap Tricks' here.Check out Art and Cakes's Artist Spotlight on Kate Kretz here.Artist Spotlight: additional work from Kate Kretz Interview with Kate Kretz  

Working around the pervasive themes of relationality and renderings, ethics and embodiment, movement and materiality, and propositions and potentials, the volume simultaneously offers a site for the review of key historical works and at the same time, new scholarship that enters into conceptual conversations around a/r/tography.

Over 200 observational drawings created every day from the same window during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, revealing life in an ordinary English street in extraordinary times. A visual record and a unique meditation on place, nature, community, well-being, and the value of mindfully appreciating them all through drawing. 174 b&w, 48 col. illus.

This richly illustrated volume explores critical and visual practices through the lens of intersections between pattern and chaos. It challenges disciplinary boundaries, perception and communication, often referencing the in-between territory of art and science through experimentation and visual scrutiny. 179 colour illus.

A graphically compelling, richly illustrated, and theoretically robust text for artists, designers and teachers. The collection presents field notes for meaningful artistic inquiry and exploration that includes divergent practices in art, design, curriculum, and education within contemporary issues in the field of art and education. 200 col. illus.

This edited collection highlights ways that arts-educators have taken up important questions around environmental sustainability and land stewardship through walking practices across spatial, temporal and cultural differences. 42 b&w illus.