Xenia Danos’s book seeks to contribute to the creation of a platform for education in the area of graphicacy. The foundation for the book is Xenia’s literature review concerning the development of graphicacy in humans. Despite exploring over 2000 references, the prior research was limited in scope, but raised many potentially interesting points of departure.
How do designers do what they do? How do architects,engineers, industrial, fashion and graphic designers think? What is it that goes on in their minds that enables them to shape the things that people buy, use and inhabit? And how far do they share their mental abilities with people at large? Is it true that everyone is a designer in their own way?
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.
