Product Design Books

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

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Piranesi as Designer Paperback

Piranesi as Designer Paperback

New Design From Israel

New Design From Israel

Blue and beige patterned book cover featuring a close-up of a geometric metal teapot

Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser's Design Revolution HC

Book cover with 19 colorful and playful design objects on a white background

Antiques of the Future

Making Design Limited Edition

Making Design Limited Edition

Colour and Material Studies in Porcelain: Collection Cornwall

Colour and Material Studies in Porcelain: Collection Cornwall

White book cover featuring a white chair. Both the cover and the chair are covered in handwritten words

Can Design Change Society?

The Responsible Object: A History of Design Ideology for the Future

The Responsible Object: A History of Design Ideology for the Future

Chair: 500 Designs that Matter

Chair: 500 Designs that Matter

GLASS + GLAMOUR

GLASS + GLAMOUR

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

Piranesi as Designer Hardcover

Piranesi as Designer Hardcover

Moving to Mars: Design for the Red Planet

Moving to Mars: Design for the Red Planet

Michele De Lucchi

Michele De Lucchi

Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

Cyclepedia: 90 Years of Modern Bicycle Design

Cyclepedia: 90 Years of Modern Bicycle Design

A hardback book with a teal cover. The cover features a small dog standing underneath a giant red cone. There is black text at the top of the cover that is surrounded by a black frame. The publisher's name is featured at the bottom left of the cover.

Pet-tecture: Design for Pets

Small, deep, book with a rainbow gradient covering all edges, with lighter cover text "Palette Mini Series No. 2 Multicolour"

Palette Mini Series 02: Multicolor

Black book cover with a small illustration of a desk lamp and many gray key words surrounding white title in center

100 Ideas that Changed Design

Simple book cover in salmon color with black title the future starts in san sarif font on top and the word here in serif font in the middle

The Future Starts Here

Colour- Based on Nature

Colour- Based on Nature

Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture

Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture

Large rectangular book cover featuring a vibrant, textured, abstract image that resembles a map. Text overlaid at the top reads: Designs for Different Futures.

Designs for Different Futures

A black square book cover that has a centered, large, white coffee lid that has "caution contents hot!" debossed on it. The book title is at the top of the cover and the subtitle at the bottom, with the authors' names below. The font is white, sans serif, and all caps.

Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture

Lavendar cover with black and white image of Eileen Gray.

Eileen Gray: Her Life and Work

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

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

Small, deep, gold book with outlined cover text "Palette Mini Series No. 3 Gold & Silver"

Palette Mini Series 03: Gold & Silver

Achille Castiglioni

Achille Castiglioni

Dark purple-gray book cover featuring a gray amorphous shape made up of different grayscale collages materials. White text overlaid, broken up across the page, reads "Dust & Data"

Dust & Data: Traces of the Bauhaus Across 100 Years

Chair Anatomy: Design and Construction

Chair Anatomy: Design and Construction

Small, deep, white book with black cover text "Palette Mini Series No. 1 Black & White"

Palette Mini Series 01: Black & White

Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design

Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design

Boxed book, view from spine. Spine is white with black text reading "Eames beautiful details." Box has an all-over tessellation of brightly colored triangles.

Eames: Beautiful Details

Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary

Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary

Gray book cover featuring a full frame photograph of a dark gray vase. The vase is smooth and curvilinear on one side but ridged on the other giving the appearance that is quickly moving to the left

The Fundamentals of Product Design

Carve! A Book on Wood, Knives and Axes

Carve! A Book on Wood, Knives and Axes

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

Rectangular book cover featuring an abstract painting detail, with a horizontal pink band covering most of the painting. Small text overlaid reads: Design: The Invention of Desire.

Design: The Invention of Desire

On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City

On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City

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