CfP: Special Issue: Food Packaging Design-International Journal of Food Design (Intellect)
Type: Call for Publications
Date: May 16, 2016 to January 1, 2017
Location: United Kingdom
Subject Fields: Humanities,
Architecture and Architectural History, Art, Art History & Visual
Studies, Cultural History / Studies, History of Science, Medicine, and
Technology
Call for Papers for the Special Issue: Food Packaging Design
International Journal of Food Design (Intellect)
The double-blind peer-reviewed International Journal of Food Design (IJFD) seeks full articles (8,000 words) and case studies (4,000 words) on Food Packaging Design
Food
design extends beyond food itself to include its related artefacts and
the meanings they communicate. For most people the first contact with
food is packaging, framing its meaning before it is consumed. Packaging
protects and preserves, but it also communicates powerful emotional
messages whether associated with purity and strength or luxury and
value. In the hands of the best designers the elements of packaging
design (materials, form, colour, imagery and typography) can achieve
deep cultural and psychological resonance. The imagery on a yoghurt pot
can shape our view of nature. Stereotypical imagery on international
food packaging can skew our understanding of ethnicity and nationality.
Likewise, the sheer abundance of packaging in landfill casts a cloud
over the practice, shaping our perception of food packaging as a
necessary evil. Does packaging limit inclusivity? Packaging has many
meanings and we are open to papers that stretch its definition beyond a
container for food.
Are baby bottles, transport vehicles,
restaurants and factories or even animal skins kinds of food packaging?
How do social, cultural and technological systems in which food design
is embedded – education, management, marketing, distribution and
manufacturing – determine food packaging?
Some of the questions the Special Issue is keen to answer include:
· How does the design of food packaging affect the eating experience?
· How is cultural meaning shaped by food packaging design?
· How does the design of food communicate individual and group identity?
· In what ways can the definition of food packaging design be expanded?
The
special issue aims to elucidate the various cultural, historical and
theoretical meanings of food packaging design. To do so it seeks papers
from a diverse range of disciplines and practices that connect aspects
from Culinary Arts, Hospitality, Food Science, Food Culture, and any
other food discipline, with aspects from Design Theory, Design
Education, Industrial Design, Design History, History of Technology, and
any other Design and design related disciplines.
Deadline for completed papers: 1 January 2017
Contact Info:
Send papers to: Dr. Nicolas P. Maffei