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PROGETTO GRAFICO is the long-standing journal published since 2003 by AIAP, the Italian Association of Visual Communication Design. It is a biannual scientific journal, classified in band A in the ANVUR lists for the field of design.
Starting in 2025, with issue 41, a new editorial phase began, characterised by a revamped project that responds to the emerging needs of the national and international scientific community in the field of communication design.

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Open Call for Contribution

2026-04-02

Call for Contribution • issue 43 2026
BACK THEN IS BACK NOW
DESIGN HISTORY AND EDUCATION IN THE AGE OF AI

The call for contributions for Issue 43 of Progetto Grafico Journal is now open. This issue explores the relationship between design history, education, and generative artificial intelligence.

The issue invites critical reflection on how knowledge of historical design processes — and the craft-based practices that structure visual communication — can help redefine agency, authorship, and responsibility in the age of AI.

Contributions are welcome across four sections: Research (scientific essays), Visualize (communication artifacts), Discover (book reviews), Wander (off-topic essays).

Key Deadlines

  • Book review proposals: April 20, 2026
  • Submission of contributions: June 1, 2026
  • Acceptance notification: June 28, 2026
  • Final version deadline: July 15, 2026
  • Publication: September 2026

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Current Issue

Vol. 22 No. 41 (2025): Writings of Complexity. <span>Rethinking the Codex Form</span>
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Issue 41 of Progetto Grafico marks the beginning of a new editorial phase with new leadership, a renewed scientific committee, and an editorial board composed of many young researchers, moving toward an interdisciplinary and international scientific journal.

Following a "Call for Topic" addressed to members of the new scientific committee, the volume addresses the theme "Writings of Complexity: Rethinking the Codex Form," examining the radical transformation of writing systems and knowledge transmission in the digital age.

The selected contributions explore how digital technologies and information infrastructures have, in recent years, challenged the paradigm of linear alphabetic writing, historically dominant in the articulation of Western knowledge, opening spaces for hybrid, multimodal, and synsemic languages that coexist, layer, and generate new modes of knowledge organization. The central question concerns the abandonment of traditional writing linearity and the emergence of communicative codes that integrate text, image, sound, movement, and interaction in simultaneous expressive systems. The volume documents how this transition represents not merely a technological change, but an epistemological transformation that redefines the ways in which thought is structured, transmitted, and made accessible.

In the "Research" section, contributions by: Daniela Piscitelli; Annunziato Mezzaferro; Giacomo Boffo; Giulia Cordin & Eva Leitolf; Aureliano Capri; Dario Rodighiero; Matteo Moretti & Alvise Mattozzi; Walter Quaggiotto; Michela Mattei, Marzi Micelisopo, Chiara Scarpitti and Paola Antima Tucillo; Roberta Angari, Santiago Ortiz & Antonella Rosmino; Francesco Burlando, Boyu Chen & Niccolò Casiddu; Laura Bortoloni & Davide Turrini; Giulia Panadisi; Veronica Dal Buono; Elena Caratti, Dina Riccò, Sara Bianchi & Giulia Martimucci. In the "Visualize" section, contributions by: Steven Geofrey & Paolo Ciuccarelli; Fabiana Candida. In the "Discovery" section, contributions by: Simone Giancaspero; Andrea Lancia.

Published: 2025-12-01

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