The Centre was unique at the time of its founding in that it invited members interested in a broad range of design and the arts, rather than restricting membership to professional architects and architectural students.

The elusive quality that a consensus of opinion agrees to call good design is not to be defined in terms like an axiom in geometry ...

So we will leave the making of formulas and rules to those who like that sort of thing ... we shall publish in each number a discussion on some particular object; a house, a chair, a teapot or what have you.

Editors of the journal included architects Ernst Plischke, Maurice Patience, and Al Gabites, and well-known artists E. Mervyn Taylor, and Eric Lee-Johnson.

The entire journal has been digitised by the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, a unit of the library at Victoria University of Wellington, and can be viewed online.