Visual Research

Foreword
Introduction

1. How and why?
Research Methodologies
Process and Product
Design Commentators
Key Concepts: The Designer as Author
Case Study
Design exercises

2. Design Literacy
Visual literacy in Design Practice
Key Concepts: Connotation and Denotation
Case Study
Design exercises.

3. Analysis and Proposition
Research and Design
Feedback and Evaluation
Language and Identities
Key Concepts - Rhetoric
Key Concepts - Structuralism and Semiotics
Case Study
Design exercises

4. Visual Tools of Inquiry
Design-led research tools
Case Study
Design exercises

5. Theory in Practice
Engaging with Visual Research
Graphic Authorship
Key Concepts - Post-structuralism
Key Concepts - Rubbish Theory
Case Study
Design exercises

6. Audience and Message
Receiving End
The Construction of Meaning
Two-way Communication
Key Concepts - Fitness Landscape
Case Study
Design exercises

7. Process and Materials
Practical Considerations
Tactility and Usability
Key Concepts - Affordance
Case Study
Design exercises

8. Synthesis
The Process of Synthesis
Key Concepts - Modernism and Postmodernism
Case Study
Design exercises

Online Resources
Further Reading
Index
Picture Credits
Acknowledgements