Research on Creativity in Design Education On the role of expression and reflection upon the process

The purpose of this research is to understand the creativity aimed at in design education. This research was progressed by the method of verifying educational practice of Visual Communication Design for the purpose. The lesson of the Visual Communication Design currently practiced for hearing impaired students, in Faculty of Design, Tsukuba College of Technology was made into the example. It inferred what kind of creativity the student demonstrated from the example. Consequently, it turned out that the student raised the creativity when they connected with their self-expression. In addition, it also turned out that self-reflection of a creation process is effective in design process. The result of this research shows that future design education needs to take hold on expression in the individual inner world more