Attention visual artists, graphic designers, and illustrators in the FSJ community (and beyond)! For our forthcoming guest edited Fashion & Digital Engagement Summer 2022 issue, we are looking for individuals who’d like to contribute!
About the Issue
Guest edited by fashion scholar Chinouk Filique de Miranda, this special issue will critically unpack fashion’s various modes of digital engagement. As consumers play an active role as interpreters of their online environment, navigating one's interaction with the digital fashion landscape has become an important socio-political act.
There’s a very wide range of topics that can be considered within the pendulum of online fashion, from commercialized filter bubbles and becoming your own unreliable narrator to online identity and consuming behavior. In our participatory digital culture, fashion in its digitized forms has become a tool to assert the way we engage with the industry and each other.
Through examining the manifold personalized experiences the online fashion landscape extends to its users, consumers, and explorers, this issue focuses on artists, practitioners, academics, and students re-configuring the online environment in new ways, by seeking solutions and exploring how we can become the systems we need by highlighting democratized and and decentralized approaches towards fashion.
So, what are we looking for? Someone who has a keen interest in the crossover between fashion and digital culture, and is able to explore its aesthetic. More specifically, we’re looking for individuals who’d like to collaborate with us and develop a micro identity for this guest-edited issue. This visual language is meant to extend itself in the form of various graphical formats that distinguish but also unify the multitude of contributions to be published in the Fashion & Digital engagement issue. In terms of identity package we’re looking for the following assets :
key visuals for Social Media (static and moving)
header image for the FSJ Homepage
Image contributions for specific essays
Graphics for the (email) newsletter
Please note that this is an unpaid opportunity. We’d therefore like to stress that we’re very open to all input in terms of format and assets!
(contact information + deadline)
To be considered, please send a portfolio and short proposal in which you describe (or visualize) your style and the way you’d imagine the desired outcome, no later than February 28th, 2022 to info@fashionstudiesjournal.org with the subject 'Visual Submission: Digital Engagement Issue.' Can't wait to hear from you!