The Art of Innovation
Partner of IDEO, Tom Kelley, tells about their way of working behind the scenes: leading to both big successes and joyful failures.
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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. With this book, Csikszentmihalyi aims to offer an understanding of what leads to these moments.
Designers & Design Discourse
Excerpt from Guy Julier’s book Culture of Design. Please read until “Designers as ‘Cultural Intermediaries'” (so pages 46-53). If you want to read further, feel free to read the rest of the chapter as enriching material.
Sketching
This book by Koos Eissen and Roselien Steur covers essential sketching techniques for product designers. The drawing techniques from this book are taught at this faculty and are also part of a formalisation and visual vocabulary that is very influential in our faculty.
In the Bubble
A book by John Thackara about how to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.
User Friendly
Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need.
The Design of Everyday Things
Donald Norman’s design classic – the bible on the cognitive aspects of design, containing examples of both good and bad design and simple rules that designers can use to improve the usability of objects.
Shipping Container
Craig Martin’s book illuminates the “development of containerization”- including design history, standardization, aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of shipping containers.
Design for the Real World | Preface
First published in 1971, Victor Papanek’s lively and instructive guide shows how design can reduce pollution, overcrowding, starvation, obsolescence and other modern ills.
Het ontstaan van professionele industriele vormgeving
Chapter 6 from John Heskett’s book Industrial Design. This excerpt is from the Dutch translation and covers the rise of industrial design as a profession. Pay attention to the industrial, technological and economic context in which the profession arose. Enjoy, but don’t worry about all the examples.