Lemon Tang

Available to purchase on Amazon.com To examine how students learn to make, explain and defend design decisions while preparing work for assessment and admission. Drawing on research into private portfolio education in China, alongside A-level sketchbooks, studio teaching and experimental pedagogy, Researcher, Lemon Tang follows the everyday exchanges through which a project takes shape: a tutor’s correction, an example offered for guidance, a deadline, a request for approval. These encounters...

Research in Style: Expression, Ethics and Critical Practice in Design Research Looking forward to delivering this lecture and workshop on 23 September, exploring how design research develops through writing, reflection, experimentation and critical practice. Rather than treating research writing simply as a way of explaining a finished design outcome, Research in Style considers writing as part of the design process itself: a way of framing questions, articulating methods, establishing a...

Authors: Lemon Xueli Tang, Liu Meng Chen The Glasgow School of Art Abstracts: Graphic Communication Design education frequently operates through project-based pedagogies in which students learn through making, critique, iteration and reflection. Yet the same structures that support learning can also encourage dependence on external validation, particularly when students seek precedents, tutor approval or apparently ‘correct’ visual outcomes before trusting their own design judgement. This...