The UCID Class of 2012, created this handbook with the goal of helping students produce their first portfolio.

DESIGN CREATIVITY  & CULTURE 

AN ORIENTATION TO DESIGN

A history from the steam age to today.

Carroll Gantz is a giant on who's shoulders we all stand today. The designer of the original Black and Decker Dustbuster, Carroll has never been afraid to pioneer and change where change was needed. This latest book from Carroll, tells it like it was! It is a great read for anyone interested to know how we got here.

Mark Dziersk, FIDSA reviewed the book in the summer 2011 edition of INNOVATION, the IDSA Quarterly Journal of Industrial Design. Here is what he had to say about it.

Predictable Magic presents a complete design process for making the “magic” happen—over and over again.

For many designers in European the idea of design is associated more with culture and lifestyle than the American idea of design which tends to be more commercial and problem solving oriented.

This book by Jane Worthington, Designing Life, provides a wonderful window into that world. Jane started out as an industrial designer, moved into furniture design and has designed many hotels and counts the Dutch Royal family amongst her clients.

Form, function and technology from around the world by Eric Chan, IDSA of ECCO Design.

The book is a great source of inspiration and curated from products from around the world. It is divided into 10 categories which make a lot of sense when you are reading throught it: sit, illuminate, live, eat, care,organize, work, express, entertain, connect.

To bu the book and to see excerpts from it click here.

100 Years of Design consists of excerpts from a book by Carroll M. Gantz, FIDSA, Design Chronicles: Significant Mass-Produced Designs of the 20th Century
published by Schiffer Publications, Ltd.

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