Product Design Books

Selection of publications on material, manufacturing, history, and the future of product design.

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Pink book cover with white borders. "Making Design" in white san serif font on thick spine and "210,000" and "1145" on front cover

Making Design Limited Edition

New Design From Israel

New Design From Israel

Blue book cover with bold san serif title over opaque font detail pattern at the bottom

Enwheeled: History, Design, and the Wheelchair

Book cover showing gold and silver metalwork of a classical figure with art deco ornamentation. Title vertically rotated in sans serf font in navy blue field to the left

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s - Hardcover

Bright yellow book cover with title in italicized lowercase san serif font. Subtitle, author, and publisher information in smaller lowercase font below.

Are We Human? Notes on an Archeology of Design

White book cover features a circular graphic image consisted of different patterns such as dots, lines, and ska at the lower center. The title and author's name is visible at the right top near the center in black font.

Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design, Paperback

Square book cover with yellow title in orange field over a engraved piece of metal studded with jewels showing a dragon

Book cover featuring a photo of sakura branches, a small round clay vase on top of a dark wooden floor. The title of the book is designed with white font, a brief, 6-lines description is placed on the lower right corner using gray font.

Craftland Japan

Green book cover featuring white, serif title text, each word punctuated by a silhouetted photo of an unusual, contemporary, design object.

How to Live with Objects

Book with a tan cover, and five untensils, the text and objects are all dark brown.

The Hard Life: Jasper Morrison

Black book cover with illustration of a gray disc with white icons and symbols with spokes pointing to central white dot. Title in white in upper right

The Internet of Things

Black book cover with an illustration of a hand silhouetted in light blue holding a small sphere made of dots. Title in white at top

Industrial Design in the Modern Age

Industrial Design in the Modern Age

Beige book cover with vertically stacked title in red letters to the left of subtitle and author name in orange and green. Below is an image of a sleek black car on an orange road

Are We There Yet? The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless

A cover with a rhythmic pattern of intersecting and overlapping triangles in complementary shades of red, plum and pink. Anni is spelled in white letters in the upper right and Albers in the lower left, sans serif.

Book cover with white border around a transparent pink square over a white chandelier made of broken porcelain plates and heads. Title in center in white

Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer Signed Copy (1st Edition)

Black book cover with title printed in white in upper right corner and recycling symbol lower left justified.

Book cover with grainy phograph of foods and forms with a variety of colors and textures partially covered by title in black serif letters

The Sausage of the Future

Gray book cover with orange and brown mixed media sculpture under clay brown title

Isamu Noguchi: Archaic/Modern

Cover image with photograph of the designer and smaller images showing sample of his iconic designs.

Michael Graves: Design for Life

White book cover featuring three single-color images of Alessi products: a green anthropomorphic corkscrew, a blue kettle with a bird-shaped whistle, a yellow space-age lemon juicer. Red title text at center.

Alessi: The Dream Factory

Navy blue book cover with white silhouette of the Concorde, a long plane with triangular wingspan, above title in thin white letters

Supersonic: Design and Lifestyle of Concorde

Colour- Based on Nature, book by Irma Boom. The cardboard box is the cover for the book and features vertical text in white printed upward in all caps. The two words featured, in two different languages, are separated by a strip of four colorful vertical lines in blue, red, yellow, and black.

Colour- Based on Nature

White book cover with title in very small black sans serif font near upper right

Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams (Signed)

Elemental Earth: Material Design Process

Elemental Earth: Material Design Process

Square hot pink book cover with title in center in white and yellow letters

Gray book cover with a photograph of a tree stump with an ax and other tools on it in a carpeted bedroom

Carve! A Book on Wood, Knives and Axes

Square white book cover with two rotund glazed ceramic pitchers, one yellow, one orange. Title above in gray and orange letters

100 Designs for a Modern World: Kravis Design Center

Chipboard cover with gold foil icon of a trash can and gold foil spine with words "Pure gold" in black sans serif letters

Pure Gold: Upcycled! Upgraded!

Book cover with dense curvilinear maze like pattern punctuated by the title in black sans serif font

Joris Laarman Lab

Book cover features an iridescent texture similar to the oil films on water or soap bubbles. White stripe on the right edge includes the title, subtitle, and the author's name in purple font.

Glitterworlds: The Future Politics of a Ubiquitous Thing

Blue book cover features a graphic terrazzo pattern in grey, yellow, turquoise, and light green colors. The book title and subtitle are placed below in silver. Three horizontal light blue lines are visible at the lower-left corner.

Material Matters: Stone

White book cover with nine loosely sketched chairs interlaced with book title

Almost 100 Chairs for 100 People

Large rectangular book cover featuring a graphic painting with letters a r d incorporated. Text at the top on a white band reads: Italian Design 1965–1985 RADICAL.

Radical: Italian Design 1965-1985

Orange book cover with large white title text cropped off at the right edge. Small, black subtitle text below.

A Handbook of California Design, 1930-1965: Craftspeople, Designers, Manufacturers

Grey book cover printed on a craft paper. Nine-squares greed takes two-third of the cover on the top. The book title and subtitle are placed below in silver. Horizontal pair of yellow lines at the lower-left corner.

Material Matters: Metal

White book cover with two red power drills and a red laptop that converts into a tablet surrounding the word "Working"

Red Dot Design Yearbook 2016/2017: Working

White book cover with red headphones and red sports car surrounding the word "Enjoying"

Red Dot Design Yearbook 2016/2017: Enjoying

White book cover with red alarm clock, red bag, and red bicycle surrounding the word "Doing"

Red Dot Design Yearbook 2016/2017: Doing

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