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Figure 6. Veronica Lucas, “Art + Math = X”
poster (© 2005, V. Lucas. Used with permission)
Figure 7. (a) “Apple, A is for Apple” (© 2012, E.
Sanchez. Used with permission) (b) Jason Johnson,
“Forbidden fruits … What Entices You?” (© 2012,
J. Johnson. Used with permission) (c) Preston Stone,
“Apple” (© 2012, P. Stone. Used with permission)
(d) Adam Smith, “Apple” (© 2012, A. Smith. Used
with permission)
DESIGN, CRAFT, AND FOLK ART
medicine and to a lesser extent in business (p. 112).
One may
c
onsider art as a way to communicate
and express ideas, concepts, and related emotions
through their visual representation. The design
instruction in the context of art uses skills and
shares experiences to convey knowledge, produce
aesthetic result, and engage learners' emotions.
Thinking in terms of design is a creative process
based around the building up of ideas, and a way to
apply design methodologies to instruction (p. 55).
Design
Dictionaries define the notion of 'Design' as a
plan, layout, mockup, model, but also the product
of such planning, a project, arrangement, and
enterprise. Many hold that the design process is
a problem-solving process. Making a good data
graphics requires diverse skills - the visual-artistic,
empirical-statistical, and mathematical. In his
topic entitled “Sciences of the Artificial” Herbert
Simon (1996/1969) wrote,
The use of different modes (pictorial, verbal,
tactile) for presentation of essential information is
an important part of instruction by making it simple,
intuitive, and easy to understand, regardless of the
students' experience, knowledge, language skills,
and taking into account their economic, engineer-
The damage to professional competence caused
by the loss of design from professional curricula
gradually gained recognition in engineering and
