COP Design/Visual Research/Mindmapping Practical Ideas

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/get-psyched/201207/learning-through-visuals

Above is a link to an article by Haig Kouyoumdjian, discussing the importance of visual cues on learning and memory. 

Haig Kouyoumdjian published a book that aimed to enhance the learning for those reading it. The book is titled 'Introduction to Psychology', and the description of the design goes like:
This modular, visual approach to the fundamentals of psychology--the pioneer of the "visual" or "magazine" style approach--makes even the toughest concepts engaging and entertaining. Each and every page is individually planned, written, and formatted to effectively incorporate the use of Visual Cues, which help you to better remember information. Extensively updated, the text also utilizes "chunking," a method of breaking concepts down into small, easily digested sections that help you learn at your own pace. 

Here are a couple images from this publication:

The design of the books is still very 'textbook', it has a similar essence to a magazine as intended but a lot of the other design choices enforces a very child orientated aesthetic. If I were to look at it I would assume it's a textbook for the purpose of learning before anything else. 

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Unspooling Design Academia into the Public Sphere

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/the-publication-unspooling-design-academia-into-the-public-sphere/

This publication is an attempt at making design research public. It presents essays and aims to bring the essay ideas out of the confines of academia and situate them within a larger conversation on design. 'Through design and content, the publication tracks how ideas cross-pollinate and grow from one another to form a continually extending network of knowledge.'

In the book, the metaphor of a string is not simply a useful way to think about how the essays relate to a wider context, or how the form of a publication can circulate beyond the space of a classroom. The idea of a line informs the volume’s design as an object: it’s made explicit by a literal connecting string that extends throughout the publication, visually tying one essay onto the next. The designers call this flourish a “splicing device”, borrowing from the way that a roll of film traditionally was cut and pasted together to create a whole. They note that etymologically, the word ‘volume’ comes from the Latin, ‘volure,’ meaning ‘to roll.’

'The vertical lay out of the captions and references mimics the flipping landscape/portrait gesture in smartphones and tablets—inviting the reader to ”reflect on printed matter and digitalization in the space of this small page.”

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Things to Read:

• https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/victionary-raphael-kwok-a-book-on-books-graphic-design-publication-071020
  > Discusses the new publication, good for looking for further book designers and publishers to read up on. 
• https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/we-became-aware-019-occupation-and-hospitality-publication-070119
  > Really interesting design choice of binding the book, but little about learning or aiming to teach. 
• https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/eilean-friis-lund-graphic-design-310320
  > Asks the question “what is induced when an image is de-contextualised and juxtaposed with another, what meaning they take when a definition is attached to it."
  > This was also explored in an activity run by Eilean at ECAL, that used a computer numerical control (CNC) to generate imagery, rather than its intended purpose of boring into materials; “deviating its primary function by using it to print an image” and in doing so offering “a new design logic” that stimulates “the exploration of new working methodologies and gives rise to new aesthetics.” The resulting publication was entitled Culture à travers l’image, which referred “to children's books on learning words through images.” Something immediately complimenting the process behind it. 
  > The students individually “re-appropriated a theme and developed a commentary” that through the CNC process formed “a global coherence throughout the publication.”

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DIAGRAMMATIC - Johanna Drucker

https://www.onomatopee.net/exhibition/diagrammatic-writing/

Really interesting publication, a very poetic interpretation of book design using the format to produce a meaning within the book. 

The text and information is all approached in a whimsical way but with the intention of informing the audience. The text describes different ways of working with a book to promote an alternate approach to book design (to me that's the way it seems anyway). 
- The hierarchy of the book is tradition in terms of titles at the top of the page and page numbering for navigation, but the body text is where the book becomes more visually engaging. 
- Specific sections of text are exaggerated, this could be sections like quotes or key bits of information. But how would this impact learning? Does it link with research or contrast it? 

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Ideas for practical: 

• Presenting contemporary publications through effective methods that link to learning.
  - Is 'learning' always educational? 
  
• Designing educational publicatio, surround a specific topic.
  - What would this topic be?
  - Something that already exists?
  - Something I make?
• Could use research found form essay as the conten.
  - Present information about learning in a format that helps the reader learn from it.

Ideas from sketchbook:

Something like this:

Thinking of diagrammatic influence, could use design features to highlight elements (if research supports this): Would alter the reading experience (positive or negative?).