Ian Noble is a designer, design educator and writer. 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 is a regular contributor to design magazines writing for Eye and Grafik in the UK. He has spoken at a number of design events, workshops and conferences around the world and continues to run a small design practice ‘The Office of Ian Noble’ working for a range of social and cultural clients in the UK. Noble’s work has been featured in a number of books on graphic design and he has also exhibited his posters at international events. He has taught full-time for the last seventeen years and has been the head of both Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes in Graphic Design at the London College of Printing part of the University of the Arts during the last 8 years. He currently teaches Information Design and is writing two more books on the subject of Graphic Design. Noble’s work as a teacher, designer and writer is influenced by the work and ideas of Jan van Toorn. 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.

[Visual Research – An Introduction to Research Methods for Graphic Designers]: http://www.avabooks.ch/details.asp?ISBN=2-940373-20-5

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