在设计理论、编码理论和密码学中都有大量的研究，最近有大量的研究将多个学科结合在一起。设计、编码和密码学为理论和实践性质的高质量论文提供了一个论坛，在这些领域中架起一座桥梁，鼓励它们之间的相互作用。它强调代数和几何方面的设计理论，编码理论和密码学。该杂志被广泛阅读的工程师，数学家，计算机科学家和其他在教育，工业和政府。
There is a great deal of activity in design theory, coding theory and cryptography and recently there has been considerable research done which brings together more than one of the subjects. Designs, Codes and Cryptography provides a forum for high quality papers of both a theoretical and a practical nature which bridge more than one of these areas, encouraging interaction between them. It emphasizes the algebraic and geometric aspects of design theory, coding theory and cryptography.The journal is widely read by engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists and others in education, industry and government.