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

Pale blue book cover with a faint blue grid background. Single line contour drawing abstractly depicts a stethoscope, turning into hands, turning into geometric shapes in one hand and a heart in the other. Underlined text at top left reads: “Health Design Thinking.”

Health Design Thinking, second edition

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

Piranesi as Designer Paperback

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

Square book cover with beige title in red field over a colorful accordion folded book on a green background

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

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

Black book cover with photograph of one side of a pair of eyeglasses with a newsprint frame under the tile in a white lowercase sans serif font

Design Meets Disability

Book cover with a dark gray spine over textured craft cardboard. It features two images of hand-drawn pencils in the top right corner. The title and author's name are visible at the lower part in gray font.

101 Things I Learned in Product Design School

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

Antiques of the Future

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

Square book cover with photograph of undulating ceramic form overlaid with title in white sans serif letters

Russel Wright: The Nature of Design

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

Beige book cover with rounded squares in different colors each containing an architectural sketch of a ramp. Title in black letters near the top

Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design, Paperback

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

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

Palette Mini Series 01: Black & White

Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary

Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary

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

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

Bright orange book cover with title in lowercase bold black text centered vertically.

Dieter Rams: The Complete Works

Black book cover featuring a blue circle, red triangle, and yellow square in a horizontal row. Overlaid in silver, the outline of an iPhone contains centered title text.

iBauhaus: The iPhone as the Embodiment of Bauhaus Ideas and Design

A white cover with a stepped arrangement of vertical binder strips in a spectrum of blacks, grays and colors. The four-line title is aligned left in all-caps, white on the first line and warm gray for three lines.

Chroma: Design, Architecture & Art in Color

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

The Hard Life: Jasper Morrison

Industrial Design in the Modern Age

Industrial Design in the Modern Age

White book cover with a simple illustration of a vase with red, beige, green, and pink fields

Hella Jongerius: Misfit

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

Typologie: The Wine Bottle

Typologie: The Wine Bottle

A white cover with the title Future-kind spread into two lines in bold, left aligned red lettering superimposed over ten variously sized color photographs of products and persons using products. Additional credits upper left, center and bottom left; subtitle all-caps black letters; author, publisher and additional credits all-caps red letters.

Futurekind: Design by and for the People

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.

Small book with white paperback cover. An image of a wooden crate is centrally located on the cover with small black text above reading 'The Wooden Crate'. The series name 'Typologie' is printed on the top left of the cover.

Typologie: The Wooden Crate

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

Isamu Noguchi: Archaic/Modern

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

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)

Bright orange book cover with white schematic of obdey and design objects surrounded by different clock positions in a circle above sans serif title

Products That Last: Product Design for Circular Business Models

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

Black book cover feating a small blue blur at center, white white and blue text above reading "The Neri Oxman Material Ecology Catalogue"

Neri Oxman: Material Ecology

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