Boo!

Dear Design Observer contributor network, 

As Spooky Season creeps ever closer, we’re seeking pitches from design practitioners and journalists on The Design of Horror | The Horror of Design.

Whether you’re seduced by the scary or shy away from it, we want your take on the most chilling and thrilling ways that horror and design intersect. What cursed objects, theories, trends, policies, or people are haunting today’s designers? What horrors from history, and harbingers of frights still to come, should we be paying attention to? How can we dredge up enough final-girl energy to confront these resident evils?

We welcome art-eds, op-eds, criticism, reported articles, and multimedia work from professional designers and journalists. See our pitch guide for more on what types of stories will make us bite. Also check out some of our archival horror coverage for inspiration, and sign up for our weekly newsletter The Observatory to get a deeper sense of our sensibilities.

Pitch us here by 9/22. We’ll commission stories on a rolling basis through the beginning of October.