BOOKSHELF
Reference, inspiration and other suggested reading material.
The Basics
Cradle to Cradle de William McDonough
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda
The Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley
Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky
Design History
Design Encyclopedia by Mel Byars
Braun: Fifty Years of Design and Innovation
Design of the Times by Lakshmi Bhaskaran
Designing the 21st Century by Charlotte Fiell
Tools for Design
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals by Rob Thompson
Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design
Sketching: Drawing Techniques for Product Designers by Koos Eissen
Process: 50 Product Designs from Concepts to Manufacture
Reference
21st Century Design by Marcus Fairs
Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
Experience Design by Nathan Shedroff
Limited Editions by Sophie Lovell
1000 New Designs and Where to Find Them by Jennifer Hudson
Inspiration
Design and the Elastic Mind by Paolla Antonelli
Extra Ordinary: An Amusing Guide for Unleashing Your Creativity
by Hisako Ichiki and Takao Umehara
It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be by Paul Arden
Supernormal: Sensations of the Ordinary
How they Work: The Hidden World of Dutch Design by Inga Powilleit
And Fork: 100 Designer, 10 Curators, 10 Good Designs
I Miss My Pencil por Martin Bone y Kara Johnson (IDEO)
Eat Love: Food Concepts by Eating-Designer Marije Vogelzang
Inspiring Designers by Paul Rodgers
Never Use White Type on a Black Background by Anneloes van Gaalen
Positive Design
Design for the Other 90% by Cynthia E. Smith
Design like you give a Damn by Architecture for Humanity
Design Revolution by Emily Pilloton
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen
Designers
Designers on Design by Terence Conran
Everything but the Walls by Jasper Morrison
KGID: Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design by Florian Bohm
Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams by Klaus Kemp
Marcel Wanders: Behind the Ceiling
Marc Newson by Alice Rawsthorn
MUJI by Jasper Morrison, Naoto Fukasawa, and Kenya Hara
Things I have learned in my life so far by Stefan Sagmeister