Michalle GalMichalle Gal is Professor of Philosophy at the Unit of History and Philosophy and the Interdisciplinary Design Graduate Program, Shenkar. Gal is the author of Visual Metaphors and Aesthetics: A Formalist Theory of Metaphor (2022) Aestheticism: Deep Formalism and the Emergence of Modernist Aesthetics (2015), and Introduction to Design Theory: Philosophy, Critique, History and Practice (2023). She is the editor of the special issues Art and Gesture (2014), Visual Hybrids (2023), and the forthcoming Design and its Relations (2024). Read More Read Less