The second issue of Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal is now available. We hope you enjoy it and welcome your feedback: ari@ualberta.ca.

Art/Research International is pleased to welcome guest editors Dr. Sandra L. Faulkner, Bowling Green State University, and Dr. Sheila Squillante, Chatham University. They are currently seeking proposals for this special issue on Poetry and Social Justice, for publication in January/February 2018.

Co-editors in Chief, Diane Conrad and Patricia Leavy, are happy to announce the launch of the first issue of Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal. Vol 1 No 1 is openly accessible on the Open Journal Systems at the following link: https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/ari/issue/view/1881 (or by clicking "Current" in the menu above).

We thank the authors and our volunteer editorial team for making this issue possible and welcome submissions for our next issue.

Please note that for optimal viewing/reading online you should have the latest versions of your operating system and browser. PDFs of the articles are available for downloading. HTML versions of the articles will be forthcoming.

We would appreciate any feedback you’d be willing to offer. You can contact the journal at: ari@ualberta.ca

Enjoy!

Thank you to Pauline Sameshima for designing the logo for Art/Research International and for sharing your process (below).

In designing the ARI logo, I had the humbling honour of working with a brilliant and generous team and I am grateful for the opportunity. Here I share a little of my thinking in the logo design process.

First, a journal "brand" must be conceived. The brand is not the logo, but what the logo promises—the attributes of some of the things the journal can offer. The brand is the journal's unique selling feature. The logo should be a reminder of these attributes. I was fortunate to know the work of the co-editors and examples of logos they liked helped me to see that they valued connectivity and overlap.

I chose to use a turning wheel because it represents a dynamic team facilitating forward-thinking research in perpetual motion. The sum is greater than the parts. The wheel is interdisciplinary, unconventional, and part of the symbolic global. There is a peace sign in the logo representing support of social justice issues. The Venus symbol (circle substituted with iconic triangle dress) recalls feminist philosophies and sociology outlooks. The logo also alludes to Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian man’s widespread arms and legs to symbolize inclusion, harmony, and aesthetics in the journal’s brand.

     ~ Pauline Sameshima