Information Design Journal
Information Design Journal (IDJ) is a peer-reviewed international journal that bridges the gap between research and practice in information design.
IDJ is a platform for discussing and improving the design, usability, and overall effectiveness of ‘content put into form’ — of verbal and visual messages shaped to meet the needs of particular audiences. IDJ offers a forum for sharing ideas about the verbal, visual, and typographic design of print and online documents, multimedia presentations, illustrations, signage, interfaces, maps, quantitative displays, websites, and new media. IDJ brings together ways of thinking about creating effective communications for use in contexts such as workplaces, hospitals, airports, banks, schools, or government agencies. On the one hand, IDJ explores the design of information, with a focus on writing, the visual design, structure, format, and style of communications. On the other hand, IDJ seeks to better understand the ways that people understand, interpret, and use communications, with a focus on audiences, cultural differences, readers’ expectations, and differences between populations such as teenagers, elderly or the blind.
IDJ publishes research papers, case studies, critiques of information design and related theory, reviews of current literature, research-in-progress, interviews with thought leaders, discussions of practical problems, book reviews, and conference information. Contributions should be relevant to a multi-disciplinary audience from fields such as: communication design, writing, typography, discourse studies, applied linguistics, rhetoric, usability research, instructional design and graphic design. Contributions should be based on appropriate evidence and make clear their implications for practice.
IDJ publishes its articles Online First.
[Volumes 12 (2004) and 13 (2005) were published under the title Information Design Journal + Document Design]
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Issues
Online-first articlesVolume 29 (2024)
Volume 28 (2023)
Volume 27 (2022)
Volume 26 (2021)
Volume 25 (2019)
Volume 24 (2018)
Volume 23 (2017)
Volume 22 (2016)
Volume 21 (2014)
Volume 20 (2013)
Volume 19 (2011)
Volume 18 (2010)
Volume 17 (2009)
Volume 16 (2008)
Volume 15 (2007)
Volume 14 (2006)
Volume 13 (2005)
Volume 12 (2004)
Volume 11 (2002/03)
Volume 10 (2000/01)
Volume 9 (1998/00)
Volume 8 (1995/96)
Volume 7 (1993/94)
Volume 6 (1990/91)
Volume 5 (1986-89)
Volume 4 (1984-86)
Volume 3 (1982/83)
Volume 2 (1981)
Volume 1 (1979/80)
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Subscription Info
General information about our electronic journals.
Subscription rates
All prices for print + online include postage/handling.
| Online-only | Print + online | ||
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| Volume 30 (2025): 3 issues; ca. 300 pp. | EUR |
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| Volume 29 (2024): 3 issues; ca. 300 pp. | EUR |
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Individuals may apply for a special online-only subscription rate of EUR
Private subscriptions are for personal use only, and must be pre-paid and ordered directly from the publisher.
Available back-volumes
| Online-only | Print + online | ||
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| Complete backset (Vols. 1‒28; 1979‒2023) |
86 issues; 8,400 pp. |
EUR 5,945.00 | EUR 6,270.00 |
| Volume 28 (2023) | 3 issues; 300 pp. | EUR |
EUR |
| Volumes 26‒27 (2021‒2022) | 3 issues; avg. 300 pp. | EUR |
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| Volume 25 (2019) | 3 issues; 300 pp. | EUR |
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| Volume 24 (2018) | 3 issues; 300 pp. | EUR |
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| Volume 23 (2017) | 3 issues; 300 pp. | EUR |
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| Volume 22 (2016) | 3 issues; 300 pp. | EUR |
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| Volume 21 (2014) | 3 issues; 300 pp. | EUR |
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| Volumes 1‒20 (1979‒2013) | 3 issues; avg. 300 pp. | EUR |
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Submission
Manuscripts can be submitted through the journal's online submission and manuscript tracking site. Please consult the guidelines and the Short Guide to EM for Authors before you submit your paper.
If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the editors by e-mail: idjeditorial
gmail.com
Ethics
John Benjamins journals are committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics and to supporting ethical research practices.
Authors and reviewers are kindly requested to read this Ethics Statement .
Please also note the guidance on the use of (generative) AI in the statement.
Rights and Permissions
Authors must ensure that they have permission to use any third-party material in their contribution; the permission should include perpetual (not time-limited) world-wide distribution in print and electronic format.
For information on authors' rights, please consult the rights information page.
Open Access
Articles accepted for this journal can be made Open Access through payment of an Article Publication Charge (APC) of EUR 1800 (excl. tax). To arrange this, please contact openaccessbenjamins.nl once your paper has been accepted for publication.
More information can be found on the publisher's Open Access Policy page.
Corresponding authors from institutions with which John Benjamins has a Read & Publish arrangement can publish Open Access without paying a fee. Please consult this list of institutions for up-to-date information on which articles qualify.
For information about permission to post a version of your article online or in an institutional repository ('green' open access or self-archiving), please consult the rights information page.
If the article is not (to be made) Open Access, there is no fee for the author to publish in this journal.
Archiving
John Benjamins Publishing Company has an agreement in place with Portico for the archiving of all its online journals and e-books.
Call for Papers
IDJ Call for Papers
Information Design in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Two years on since the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the effects of the virus still reverberate across almost every aspect of life. As society adjusts itself to a ‘new normal’, researchers from a wide range of areas all over the world have either joined forces in finding solutions to an unprecedent health crisis, investigating its effects or, in some cases, facing new challenges and finding new opportunities in their ways of doing research.
This special issue of the Information Design Journal will be dedicated to papers addressing the contribution of Information Design in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Human-centred research to help understand and/or tackle a global pandemic.
- The design and evaluation of informative materials on COVID-19 prevention and treatment.
- Responses to the impact of COVID-19 on research in design.
- Adapting to a new way of research by conducting online remote research method, hybrid research methods, etc.
- Data visualization and scientific communication of COVID-19.
- COVID-19 and data journalism.
- Perspectives on how information design changed and adapted during and post Covid.
- Where is Information Design going next?
For the benefit of production efficiency, the publisher and the editor ask you to follow the following submission guidelines strictly. Papers that do not follow these guidelines will be returned to the author.
- Contributions should be consistent in their use of language and spelling.
- Authors are asked to follow the Submission Guidelines.
- Articles are to be submitted electronically through IDJ Editorial Manager – EM.
The deadline to submit papers for this special call is 30 April 2022. Any submissions after this date will be returned to the author.