Announcements of calls for papers for design-oriented journals and conferences
December 30, 2012 Leave a comment
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 73,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
October 16, 2012 6 Comments
This blog is now three years old!
It wouldn’t exist without all the authors who contribute to it, and the hundreds of people who follow it, so this is a celebration for all of us!
In the last three years, this site has been viewed over 190,000 times, and has over 900 followers. It’s very gratifying to know that, once in a while, even I have a good idea. 
Thanks everyone!
February 29, 2012 Leave a comment
Launched in 1999, the IDEA JOURNAL is an international refereed journal dedicated to the publication of interior design/interior architecture research and as such provides a valuable resource to the discipline and associated design and theoretical fields.
The IDEA JOURNAL is central to IDEA*s objective to foster, publish and disseminate peer reviewed interior design/interior architecture research. The journal recognises and promotes interior design/interior architecture as a research activity relevant to its field where the definition of research includes research about design, research for design as well as research through design. To this end, the IDEA JOURNAL invites a range of contributions related to interior design/interior architecture research.
The role of Guest Editor is supported by:
October 16, 2011 1 Comment
Yesterday, 15 Oct, was the 2nd anniversary of this blog. I remain extremely gratified by the response and I’ll continue to do the best I can.
For the record, we’re nearly at 116,000 views and we now have 365 subscribers. You can refer to a previous thank you note from earlier this year to note the tremendous growth over the last 10 months or so.
Once again, thanks to everyone.
Cheers.
Fil
August 7, 2011 2 Comments
YAY!
I was just notified by Wordpress central that this blog now has 300 subscribers!
That’s great news, and I’m very gratified to find that it seems this idea is appreciated by the design community.
Please note that if you would like to contribute to this blog yourself, you can: make sure that your CFPs are posted in a timely manner help get more CFPs posted; and give me a bit of a break.
January 19, 2011 2 Comments
Since it was started in October 2009, this blog has been hit over 55,000 times and has 29 actual subscribers from all over the world (France, Thailand, Australia, India, USA, UK, to name a few – even Canada!). The hit rate has been climbing slowly ever since it started. I also know that the Design Society uses this blog to help build it’s own list of events, and I’m most gratified by that.
I would note that I’m happy to add other authors to this blog; besides the purely selfish goal of lowering the number of posts I make myself, I’d like to think this is one way that we can all work together.
The bottom line is this: thanks!
February 7, 2010 Leave a comment
I’ve changed the theme for this blog. The biggest problem was that the tag cloud was getting too big to render nicely in the relatively small box assigned to it. Also, I was quite limited in the number of widgets I could display. I hope the new theme is a little better that way.
October 8, 2009 3 Comments
Welcome to DesignCalls, a blog for posting announcements of calls for papers for design-oriented journals and conferences. I’m still not sure how this blog’s functionality will evolve over time. Hopefully, its layout and design will improve in response to how it’s used.
