Designing Designing

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First published in 1984, and reissued in a facsimile edition that preserves the formal ingenuity of the original text, Designing Designing contains a crucial and invigorating selection of J. C. Jones' writings on design methodology.First published in 1984, and reissued in a facsimile edition that preserves the formal ingenuity of the original text, Designing Designing contains a crucial and invigorating selection of J. C. Jones' writings on design methodology.
J. C. Jones was born in 1927, in Aberystwyth, Wales. Jones studied engineering at the University of Cambridge, and went on to work for AEI in Manchester, England. In 1962 he instigated an influential conference on design methods, which led to the formation of the Design Research Society which he chaired from 1971-73. In 2004 he was presented with the Society's Lifetime Achievement Award and from 1970-74 Jones was the first Professor of Design at The Open University, UK.