Product Design Books

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

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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

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

New Design From Israel

New Design From Israel

[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

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

Enwheeled: History, Design, and the Wheelchair

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

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

Antiques of the Future

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

Russel Wright: The Nature of Design

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

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

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

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 an illustration of a hand silhouetted in light blue holding a small sphere made of dots. Title in white at top

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

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

The Hard Life: Jasper Morrison

A mauve colored-cover with bold white text at its center. A graphic featuring three individuals is placed above the text and is also white.

Culture Sensitive Design: A Guide to Culture in Practice

Industrial Design in the Modern Age

Industrial Design in the Modern Age

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

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.

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 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

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.

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

Isamu Noguchi: Archaic/Modern

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

Black book cover with pattern of silver dots in a circular field. Title above in white sans serif font

Ten Principles for Good Design: Dieter Rams

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

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)

Elemental Earth: Material Design Process

Elemental Earth: Material Design Process

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

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!

Book cover with dense curvilinear maze like pattern punctuated by the title in black sans serif font

Joris Laarman Lab

Green book cover featuring white, serif title text, each word punctuated by a silhouetted photo of an unusual, contemporary, design object.

How to Live with Objects

White book cover with a cut-paper illustration of a colorful, postmodern bookshelf. Multicolored text overlaid reads "What is Good Design?" , "A Simple Question Without a Simple Answer."

What Is Good Design? : A Simple Question without a Simple Answer

Blue book cover features a graphic terrazzo pattern in grey, yellow, turquoise, and light green colors. The book title and subtitle are placed below in silver. Three horizontal light blue lines are visible at the lower-left corner.

Material Matters: Stone

Dark brown book cover printed on matt craft cardboard features a graphic image of the wood grain. The book title and subtitle are placed below in white font. One horizontal white line is visible at the lower-left corner.

Material Matters: Wood

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

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