Loughborough Design Press (LDP) is a specialist publisher of significant theoretical contributions to design education research and design theory. It was established by Eddie Norman and Ken Baynes and is now managed by Kathy Norman. Design education has been long-established both in the UK and internationally, but is not in our view sufficiently represented within the mainstream of art, design or technology education publishing. This is the situation that we hope LDP will help to address.

Design education, alongside Science and the Humanities, is important because it underpins our relationship with both the natural and made worlds – whether real or virtual – and hence all our futures.

Downloads

Sample pages, posters and flyers for LDP's books, and Notes for Potential Authors can be freely downloaded from the downloads page

Currently we publish: Big Books, Collections and Squibs. If you are an author and would like to know more about LDP, then please download our Policy and Guidance Notes from the Downloads page and contact us if we can help you further. If you would like to review an LDP publication, then please use our contact form to give your details and indicating where the review would be published.