School staff
Personal profile
Ian Storer is a lecturer in the Department of Design and Technology at Loughborough University. He has over ten years experience in the product design industry and has nine years experience of teaching Industrial Design at Loughborough University at undergraduate and masters level.
He has designed a wide range of transportation, military, consumer and industrial products, both as an independent consultant and as part of design teams. During his time at Loughborough he has been very active in analysing design industry concept generation and presentation techniques and developing teaching strategies to communicate to and nurture these abilities in students.
He has developed new modules and design methodologies in the areas of product semantics and design visualisation. The product semantics work has been successful in attracting live projects sponsored by automotive manufacturers and the methodology has been used to good effect in recent EPSRC funded research work. Research has also been funded by the AHRB in the area of product visualisation and task analysis.
Teaching
- Design Practice 1 10DSA01
- Design Communication 10DSB014
- Design Communications DSP852
- 2D Visualisation: 3D opportunities 10DSP802
- Industrial Design Studies 2 10DSB005
- Final Year Design Practice 10DSC015
Research
Research group: Design Education.
Current research
Methods and tools to research, analyse, generate and evaluate aesthetic form; Product semantics and the expression of meaning through aesthetic form; Design visualisation teaching methodologies.
Featured publications
- Storer, I.J., ''Reflecting on Professional Practice: Capturing an Industrial Designer's Expertise to Support the Development of the Sketching Capabilities of Novices'', Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, 10(1), 2005, pp 54-72, ISBN 1360-1431.
- Storer, I.J., Badni, K.S., Bhamra, T. and Farmer, S., ''Communicating Sustainable Design'', Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, 10(2), 2005, pp 44-57, ISSN 1360-1431.
- Storer, I.J. and McDonagh, D., ''Mood Boards as a Design Catalyst & Resource: Researching an Under-Researched Area'', The Design Journal, 7(3), 2005, pp 16-31, ISBN 1460-6925.
- Whitehead, S., Mailley, J.C., Storer, I.J., McCardle, J.R., Torrens, G.E. and Farrell, G., ''In Safe Hands: A Review of Mobile Phone Anti-theft Designs'', European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, June 2007, ISSN 1572-9869, [WWW] Available from: http://www.springerlink.com/content/v843288772352434/fulltext.html. DOI: 10.1007/s10610-007-9040-9.