Currently running a small design practice The Office of Ian Noble, he has produced designs for a range of social and cultural clients in the UK. He has spoken at a number of design events and conferences and given workshops around the world. Noble’s work has been featured in a number of books on graphic design and he has also exhibited his posters at international events and competitions. He is the author and co-author of a number of books on graphic design: Picture Perfect – New Fusions of Illustration and Graphic Design, Up Against the Wall – Contemporary Poster Design, Experimental Layout and Visual Research – An Introduction to Research Methods for Graphic Designers.

He has also contributed to the recent book about the British design group 8v0 entitled On the Outside. He has taught full-time for the last twenty years and has been the head of both Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes in Graphic Design at the London College of Communication at the University of the Arts for the last ten years. He has taught Typography, Information Design, Branding and Identity and most recently has written a new Masters level course in Visual Storytelling for the Faculty of Design at the LCC.

He is currently the Coordinator of the MA/MFA in Communication Design in the School of Communication Design at Kingston University. As an educator Noble has worked as an advisor and examiner to a number of universities and colleges including the Royal College of Art and Design and Glasgow School of Art and Design in the UK.

He is particularly concerned with the process of graphic design and its larger social effects – an investigation Noble terms Visual Research – a reflexive process exploring the relationship between making and reflecting on the theory of practice that is directly concerned with a user-centered approach to designing.

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