AD, The National Society for Education in Art and Design magazine, Summer 2014, Issue 10, p.27 This book contains a wide range of thoughts about the impact of designerly thinking on people’s lives and the environment. Many of the chapters focus on the development of mental models and their […]
Design and Technology Education: An international Journal, 19(2), June 2014, p.52 It’s not often I get the opportunity, let alone the inclination, to delve into a book and read it cover to cover. There are some books however that pull you in and refuse to let go. I am pleased that Ken Baynes’ latest publication, […]
KEN BAYNES, AUTHOR OF DESIGN: MODELS OF CHANGE, DISCUSSES SOME EARLY RESPONSES TO HIS INVITATION Faraway is near at hand with images of elsewhere In the 1980s this gnomic graffiti used to greet travellers coming in to Paddington station from the west. As a message about the vividness of visual modelling in our lives it needed a […]
An Eye Opener … Before reading this book, for me design was simply the planning process before making things. Ken Baynes sees it as something much broader and by studying his book I feel a serious gap has been revealed in my education. Ken Baynes has a very clear direct style of writing with […]
Anyone who has read any previous writing by Ken Baynes will greedily devour this book! And then they will read it all over again – and again. Everything you wanted to know about designerly thinking – it’s all here! Confused about cognitive modelling? Don’t worry, there’s a full explanation! Trying to differentiate between professional […]
A Book for Everyone … This is a major book on a topic that touches all our lives and is vitally important to the future of the environment. It is a scholarly book written by an academic who is also a practising designer. But for all its academic authority the book is a delight to […]
The book that Ken Baynes has been working on for around 10 years is now published. In writing the book, Ken has drawn on a lifetime’s research and experience, from his early career leading the Design Education Unit at the Royal College of Art, and from his time as a Visiting Professor in the Loughborough Design School (LDS).
