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

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

Enwheeled: History, Design, and the Wheelchair

New Design From Israel

New Design From Israel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

Isamu Noguchi: Archaic/Modern

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)

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

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!

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

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

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

Light gray book cover with title in yellow and medium gray left aligned with art deco ornamentation surrounding a photograph of an early radio

John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life

White book cover with evenly spaced cut out dots showing orange gradient underneath. Title in orange near top

Reproducing Scholten & Baijings

Book cover with black and white photograph of two figures one with their arm around the other and a gilded numeral 'one' with scalloped bulbous edges

The Haas Brothers

Book cover with photograph of a compact blue car under a giant black pendant light emitting magenta light in a dark space. Title in white sans serif letters near top

Ingo Maurer: Light—Reaching for the Moon

Blue book cover with cutout circle in the center and title in light blue all caps sans serif letters in upper left

Less Is More (Difficult)

Book cover with title in oversized white letters stacked against left edge over an image of a design in gold and brown tones

Studio Job: Monkey Business

White book cover with gray illustrations of design objects. Title in green and black font near top right with fast forward icon

Book cover with textured tessellated pattern in gray blues and pinks. Title vertically printed in white on black spine

Tile Makes the Room, Good Design from Heath Ceramics

Book cover with photograph of three family members one on a bicycle one on three-wheeled peddled vehicle towing their child on a busy street scene. Title in white letters in yellow and green fields

Going Green: Experiencing the Ecomobile Lifestyle