Product Design Books

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

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

Piranesi as Designer Paperback

White book cover with title in small brown font over a white radio with a perforated metal face

New Design From Israel

Blue and beige patterned book cover featuring a close-up of a geometric metal teapot

Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser's Design Revolution HC

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

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

Antiques of the Future

Chair: 500 Designs that Matter

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

[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

White textured book cover with dense small bumps. Title stacked in upper left corner in thin black sans serif letters

Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible

Black book cover with illustration of earth in dark green and black. Title in white upper right

White book cover with light green rectangle printed at the center, the title of the color and edition number is printed beneath.

Colour and Material Studies in Porcelain: Collection Cornwall

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

White book cover featuring a white chair. Both the cover and the chair are covered in handwritten words

Can Design Change Society?

Dark gray book cover with title in segmented white font at top and bottom connected by a thin white spiral coil

The Responsible Object: A History of Design Ideology for the Future

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

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 with photograph of three ridged glass pieces and title in lowercase black and white letters

Glass + Glamour: Steuben's Modern Moment, 1930-1960

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

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

Dieter Rams: The Complete Works

Small, deep, book with a rainbow gradient covering all edges, with lighter cover text "Palette Mini Series No. 2 Multicolour"

Palette Mini Series 02: Multicolor

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

Piranesi as Designer Hardcover

Brown book cover with pattern of reflecting white and black crescent shapes. Title in lower case yellow sans serif font in the center

Scandinavian 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

3/4 view of a bright red rectangular paperback emerging from a light brown slipcase with a minimalist cover featuring a circle of black spokes with a red center. The slipcase contains a white, right-centered rectangle with black type and a column of five design icons.

Japanese Design Since 1945: A Complete Sourcebook

Black book cover with a small illustration of a desk lamp and many gray key words surrounding white title in center

100 Ideas that Changed Design

Simple book cover in salmon color with black title the future starts in san sarif font on top and the word here in serif font in the middle

The Future Starts Here

White book cover with title in light gray field at top in a black sans serif font with extra space between letters. Brown chair components laid out at the bottom

Craft Becomes Modern: The Bauhaus in the Making

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)

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

Elemental Earth: Material Design Process

Elemental Earth: Material Design Process

A black square book cover that has a centered, large, white coffee lid that has "caution contents hot!" debossed on it. The book title is at the top of the cover and the subtitle at the bottom, with the authors' names below. The font is white, sans serif, and all caps.

Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture

Lavendar cover with black and white image of Eileen Gray.

Eileen Gray: Her Life and Work

Black book cover with title in white in upper right and light blue band at bottom. Illustration in the center is a smaller image of the book's cover which has a smaller image on its cover and so on

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

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

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

Burgandy cover with a gray spine, featuring a vintage gray computer at the center. The title and the author's names are placed on the top left corner using white font.

Home Computers: 100 Icons that Defined a Digital Generation

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