Product Design Books

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

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Book cover with golden patterned field with red title over an ornate gold and stone table on wood floor

Piranesi as Designer Paperback

White book cover with title in small brown font over a white radio with a perforated metal face

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

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

Black book cover with illustration of earth in dark green and black. Title in white upper right

White book cover with light green rectangle printed at the center, the title of the color and edition number is printed beneath.

Colour and Material Studies in Porcelain: Collection Cornwall

Cloth bound book cover with illustrated modern furniture outlines among amorphous forms in blue pink yellow mint and red. Title in small letters in center

Mid-Century Modern: Icons of Design

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

Can Design Change Society?

White book cover with a circular design in black and white of different shapes and patterns. Title in black at top

Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design, Hardcover

Chair: 500 Designs that Matter

Book cover with photograph of three ridged glass pieces and title in lowercase black and white letters

Glass + Glamour: Steuben's Modern Moment, 1930-1960

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

Book cover with red and beige topographic design. The words "Moving to Mars" are printed across the top in wide white sans serif letters with "Design for the red planet" across the middle

Moving to Mars: Design for the Red Planet

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

[From left to right] Book cover featuring a mint colored background layered with the title and a cut out image of a wooden green pencil. To the left, the word 'pencils' in all-caps is rotated 90 degrees vertically, reading from bottom of the book cover to top. To the right, the rest of the title mirrors.

Pencils You Should Know

Book cover with golden patterned field with red title over an ornate gold and stone table on wood floor

Piranesi as Designer Hardcover

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

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

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

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

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

Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

White book cover covered in words in thick gold letters with the title in one of the rows in black. A red white and black sneaker is shown in the center

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

Cyclepedia: 90 Years of Modern Bicycle Design

White book cover with two Japanese characters to the left and title in small serif font to the right

Gray book cover with grid of nine fields each with a color photograph or a blue and white sketch of a chair. Title in black serif font overlaid near center left

Chair Anatomy: Design and Construction

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

White book cover with title in light gray field at top in a black sans serif font with extra space between letters. Brown chair components laid out at the bottom

Craft Becomes Modern: The Bauhaus in the Making

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

Lavendar cover with black and white image of Eileen Gray.

Eileen Gray: Her Life and Work

Black book cover with title in white in upper right and light blue band at bottom. Illustration in the center is a smaller image of the book's cover which has a smaller image on its cover and so on

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)

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

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

Palette Mini Series 03: Gold & Silver

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

Palette Mini Series 01: Black & White

Burgandy cover with a gray spine, featuring a vintage gray computer at the center. The title and the author's names are placed on the top left corner using white font.

Home Computers: 100 Icons that Defined a Digital Generation

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

Isamu Noguchi: Archaic/Modern

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