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

Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto

Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto

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

New Design From Israel

New Design From Israel

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

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

Dieter Rams: The Complete Works

Industrial Design in the Modern Age

Industrial Design in the Modern Age

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

The Hard Life: Jasper Morrison

Iridescent book cover featuring black title text arranged in underlined rows, one word per line.

Architect and Designer Birthday Book

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

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

Joris Laarman Lab

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

Teal blue book cover with simple white title text surrounded by a red, coiled phone cord.

The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History

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 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

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

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

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 evenly spaced cut out dots showing orange gradient underneath. Title in orange near top

Reproducing Scholten & Baijings

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)

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 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