Product Design Books

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

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Social Design: Participation and Empowerment

Social Design: Participation and Empowerment

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

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

New Design From Israel

New Design From Israel

Antiques of the Future

Antiques of the Future

Design Life Now, SC

Design Life Now, SC

Design Life Now, HC

Design Life Now, HC

Colour and Material Studies in Porcelain: Collection Cornwall

Colour and Material Studies in Porcelain: Collection Cornwall

Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

CONSTANTIN BOYM / AMERICA

CONSTANTIN BOYM / AMERICA

Book cover with an orange band across the top with the title in yellow lowercase serif font. Below is a black and white photo of two women leaning on to each other, looking off to the side, cropped at their shoulders.

Original Bauhaus Workbook

Original Bauhaus Workbook

Cream colored cover with title in bold black print.

Original Bauhaus Catalogue

Do Design: Why Beauty Is Key to Everything

Do Design: Why Beauty Is Key to Everything

Cyclepedia: 90 Years of Modern Bicycle Design

Cyclepedia: 90 Years of Modern Bicycle Design

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

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

Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design

Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design

Enwheeled: History, Design, and the Wheelchair

Enwheeled: History, Design, and the Wheelchair

Chair Anatomy: Design and Construction

Chair Anatomy: Design and Construction

The Anatomy of Color

The Anatomy of Color

The Senses: Design Beyond Vision catalog on white background. Grey cover with text in yellow, black, and white.

The Senses: Design Beyond Vision

In/Animate: Recent Work by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray

In/Animate: Recent Work by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray

Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Nineteenth-Century Home

Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Nineteenth-Century Home

Atlas of Furniture Design

Atlas of Furniture Design

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

Michael Graves: Design for Life

The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects

The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects

Paul T. Frankl Autobiography

Paul T. Frankl Autobiography

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

The Hard Life: Jasper Morrison

100 Designs for a Modern World: Kravis Design Center

100 Designs for a Modern World: Kravis Design Center

The Haas Brothers

The Haas Brothers

Tile Makes the Room, Good Design from Heath Ceramics

Tile Makes the Room, Good Design from Heath Ceramics

Ingo Maurer: LightÑReaching for the Moon

Ingo Maurer: Light—Reaching for the Moon

Making Design Limited Edition

Making Design Limited Edition

Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary

Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary

Michele De Lucchi

Michele De Lucchi

Achille Castiglioni

Achille Castiglioni

Can Design Change Society?

Can Design Change Society?