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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.