Editorial

Abstract

This issue of Image & Text continues the cross-disciplinary debate around themes of interest and relevance to design that has become the hallmark of most of the issues of the journal published over the last decade. Four of the articles in the present issue engage directly with areas of design practice in the South African context through the consideration of furniture, health materials, posters and monuments. The other two articles, namely a retrospective response to the 2002 exhibition of artist Joan Miro's work in Johannesburg and a thoughtful critique of the gendering of technology, move outside the immediate domain of design, but nevertheless, offer observations and insights of value to designers and design researchers.