Editorial

Abstract

The second issue of Image & Text for 2016 is again an open issue, that is, it is not built around a specific them, but contains five articles that deal with current work by researchers. Two articles deal with the issue of the representation and consumption of African-American and Afrikaner cultural identity respectively in popular visual culture. Thereafter, one article focuses on the experiential properties of type, and the issue of design for sustainability is tackled in the next article. The last research article deals with an investigation of material conceptualism in the work of the fine artist Alan Alborough. In addition to the research articles, there is a conference report on People, images, a world. Images of human beings in missionary magazines during the time of the German Empire, held in Mainz. As always, there are common areas between the articles that indicate the richness of current research into visual culture.