LDP had intended to focus its publication efforts on ebooks, although as things turned out the paperbacks and hardbacks rather established their own momentum. However with the publication of our latest title, we are making efforts to restore the place of ebooks in our portfolio. As a first step, we have created print replica ebooks […]
Most writers on design education are (rightly) scornful of our highly standardised school curriculum. We see it as focused on past knowledge, emphasising the academic over the creative and practical. Though it claims to be trying to fit children for adult life, it is not itself orientated towards the future or the skills and understandings […]
Here is a good example of a responsive publication. It grew from a lecture originally given in 2010 by Ken Baynes and is developed as a collection of essays using the same ‘seven key themes around which a future vision of design education could be framed’. In part it celebrates what had already been identified […]
On the 9 November Loughborough Design Press (LDP) set out its stall at the Time for Tea! Conference at the National Gallery. We were delighted to have been invited to take part in this national conference to explore ‘drawing as thinking, expression and action’ (TEA). The importance of drawing and, perhaps even more broadly, mark-making is central […]
This book is a development of the 2010 IDATER Online Conference Book concerning Graphicacy and Modelling, which can be downloaded from the Institutional Repository at Loughborough University. The Conference was jointly organised by the Design Education Research Group (DERG) at Loughborough and the Technology Education Research Group (TERG) at the University of Limerick, where an associated event was held.
