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

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

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

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

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

Antiques of the Future

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

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

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

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

Piranesi as Designer Hardcover

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

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

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

Target: 20 Years of Design for All

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

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

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

Russel Wright: The Nature of Design

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

Enwheeled: History, Design, and the Wheelchair

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

Can Design Change Society?

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

Dieter Rams: The Complete Works

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 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 title printed in white in upper right corner and recycling symbol lower left justified.

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

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

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

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

Green book cover with spot illustrations of a bathtub, chair, kettle, shears, fork, and key, surrounding large silver title text.

The Elements of a Home

Boxed book, view from spine. Spine is white with black text reading "Eames beautiful details." Box has an all-over tessellation of brightly colored triangles.

Eames: Beautiful Details

Industrial Design in the Modern Age

Industrial Design in the Modern Age

Black cover with a light blue symbol of three connected arrows. Titled "Al Ethics" in white font and the author's name Mark Coeckelbergh in light blue.

Lavendar cover with black and white image of Eileen Gray.

Eileen Gray: Her Life and Work

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

Small, deep, gold book with outlined cover text "Palette Mini Series No. 3 Gold & Silver"

Palette Mini Series 03: Gold & Silver

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

White book cover with uniform dense black print listing themes, ideas, and povocations from the book. Fictive sticker in the lower right corner suggestive of produce stickers in the United Kingdom

Food: Eating Tomorrow

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

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