Journal Description
Visual Communication provides an international forum for the growing body of work in numerous interrelated disciplines.
The journal’s definition of the visual is broad and includes:
- still and moving images
- graphic design and typography
- visual phenomena such as fashion, professional vision, posture and interaction
- the built and landscaped environment
- the role of the visual in relation to language, music, sound and action
Visual Communication is interdisciplinary bringing together articles from a range of subjects, including:
- anthropology
- communication studies
- human and cultural geography
- multimodal studies and semiotics
- media and cultural studies
- sociology
- disciplines dealing with history, theory and practice of visual design.
Members of the Visual Communication Studies division of the ICA can subscribe to the journal with a 50% discount. Interested members should email SAGE Customer Services at subscriptions@sagepub.co.uk
The worthiness and necessity of these [essays] sharply remind us how rare it is for a mainstream academic journal to do its duty for the future by reaching beyond the complacencies and hysteria of the present.” Times Higher Education Supplement
“Visual Communication offers a high-quality forum of publication for articles on the crucial visual dimension of language and communication. I am sure that for scholars and students in many disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, this new journal will be an indispensable resource for learning, teaching and research.” Teun van Dijk
Electronic Access:
Visual Communication is available to browse online.