IDSA Bookshelf

We have gathered this collection of books on topics of interest to the industrial design community for the edification and pleasure of members and other visitors to the IDSA website. If we have overlooked a particularly worthwhile book, please let us know, and we will add it. These books are available through Amazon.com except where otherwise indicated. In the interest of transparency: IDSA is an Amazon.com affiliate.

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REALIZE: Design Means Business \| Paul...	Design Chronicles \| Carroll Gantz and...	1000 Product Designs: Form, Function...	Predictable Magic: Unleash the Power of...	The Industrialization of Design \|...
Design Creativity & Culture: An...	Designing Interactions \| Bill Moggridge	American Design Ethic: A History of...	American Design Adventure \| Arthur J....	Watches Tell More Than Time: Product...
America at Home: A Celebration of...	Drawing for Product Designers Portfolio...	Deconstructing Product Design:...	Basics Product Design: Idea Searching...	Creating Breakthrough Products:...
Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative...	Sketch: Karim \| Karim Rashid	Design For Your Self: Rethinking the...	Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the...	Design Like Apple: Seven Principles For...
Michael Graves Designs: The Art of the...	past tense future sense: Competing with...	The Designful Company: How to Build a...	Designing Media \| Bill Moggridge	Living with Complexity \| Donald A....
Designing Usability Into Medical...	The Design of Future Things \| Donald A...	The Design of Everyday Things \| Donald...	Things That Make Us Smart: Defending...	The Vacuum Cleaner—A History \| Carroll...
Eliot Noyes \| Gordon Bruce	Objectified. (dvd) \| Gary Hustwit (...	Sketching User Experiences: The...	Sketching User Experiences: Getting the...	Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate...
The Invisible Computer: Why Good...	The New Everyday: Views on Ambient...	Design Secrets: Products 2: 50 Real-...	Designing for People \| Henry Dreyfuss	The Green Imperative: Natural Design...
The Design of Things to Come: How...	Design Secrets: Products: 50 Real-Life...	ROI: Return on Innovation \| Bill...	Evolution \| Karim Rashid	Universal Principles of Design, Revised...
Design for the Real World: Human...	Creating Value by Design: Thoughts and...	Do You Matter?: How Great Design Will...	A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are...	Rethinking Sitting \| Peter Opsvik
IMPACT: The Synergy of Design,...	Hoima Bicycle (DVD) \| Jason A. Morris	Product Design and Corporate Strategy:...	China's Design Revolution (Design...	Prototyping and Modelmaking for Product...
I Miss My Pencil \| Martin Bone and Kara...	51 U.S. Industrial Design \| Society of...	A Life's Design:The Life And Work...	NONOBJECT \| Branko Lukic, Barry M. Katz	Digipop \| Karim Rashid
KarimSpace: The Interior Design and...	Karim Rashid: I Want to Change the...	Cranbrook Design: The New Discourse \|...	Guidelines and Strategies for Designing...	Transgenerational Design: Products for...
Basic Visual Concepts And Principles...	Universal Methods of Design: 100 Ways...	How to See: A Guide to Reading Our Man-...	Problems of Design \| George Nelson	Perspective: A new system for designers...
Handbook of Human Factors Testing and...	Confessions of a Generalist \| Niels...	Humanscale 1/2/3 \| Niels Diffrient,...	Humanscale 4/5/6 \| Niels Diffrient,...	Humanscale 7/8/9 \| Niels Diffrient,...

Design Chronicles \| Carroll Gantz and...	The Alliance of Art and Industry:...	The Industrialization of Design \|...	Design Creativity & Culture: An...	American Design in the Twentieth...
The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A...	Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000:...	300 Years of Industrial Design \| Adrian...	Art Deco Aluminum: Kensington \| Paula...	Design Revolution: 100 Products that...
100 Designs/100 Years—Innovative...	American Design Ethic: A History of...	The Art of Clairtone: The Making of a...	50 Favorite Houses by Frank Lloyd...	The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright...
Art Glass Details: Frank Lloyd Wrights...	Arts & Crafts: A Selected Reprint...	Bauhaus 1919-1933 \| Magdalena Droste	Building with Frank Lloyd Wright \|...	Design of the 20th Century \| Charlotte...
Eero Saarinen: Furniture For Everyman...	The Dream Factory: Alessi Since 1921 \|...	Eva Zeisel: the shape of life \| Erie...	Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks...	Inventing the Modern World: Decorative...
past tense future sense: Competing with...	Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the...	The Vacuum Cleaner—A History \| Carroll...	Eliot Noyes \| Gordon Bruce	Collector's Encyclopedia of Russel...
Design for Life: Our Daily Lives, the...	Design Since 1945 \| Peter Dormer	Design: The History, Theory and...	The Early Work of Frank Lloyd Wright \|...	Feminine Ingenuity: How Women Inventors...
Graphic Design—A Concise History \|...	Henry Dreyfuss, Industrial Designer:...	Icons of Design: The 20th Century \|...	The Evolution of Useful Things: How...	Industrial Design \| Raymond Loewy
Industrial Design: Reflection of a...	Landmarks of Twentieth Century Design...	Look of the Century \| Michael Tombini...	Making the Modern : Industry, Art, and...	Never Leave Well Enough Alone \| Raymond...
Objects of Desire: Design and Society...	The Tale of the Scale: An Odyssey of...	The Industrial Design Reader \| Carma...	51 U.S. Industrial Design \| Society of...	Cranbrook Design: The New Discourse \|...

REALIZE: Design Means Business \| Paul...	Hire Me?! The Portfolio Handbook \| UCID...	The Kickstarter Handbook: Real-Life...	The Fundamentals of Design Management...	I Wish I Worked There: A Look Inside...
Business and Legal Forms for Industrial...	Innovation and Entrepreneurship...	The Strategic Designer: Tools &...	Design Like Apple: Seven Principles For...	The Designful Company: How to Build a...
The Other Side of Innovation: Solving...	Yves Béhar+Fuseproject Commerce/Concept...	Competing by Design: Creating Value and...	Design is a Job \| Mike Monteiro	Start with Why: How Great Leaders...
Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark...	Managing the Design Factory: The...	ROI: Return on Innovation \| Bill...	New Products Management \| C. Merle...	The Power of Product Platforms \| Marc H...
Product Creation: The Heart Of The...	Creating the Perfect Design Brief: How...	Design Management: Managing Design...	Design Management: Using Design to...	Open Services Innovation \|
Silver Bullets - Strategic Intelligence...	Talent is Not Enough: Business Secrets...	The Team Based Product Development...	Thinking Beyond Lean: How Multi-Project...	The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO'...
IMPACT: The Synergy of Design,...	Product Design and Corporate Strategy:...	The Lovemarks Effect: Winning in the...	101 Design Methods: A Structured...	Designing for Social Change: Strategies...

Designing Life \| Jane Worthington	American Design Adventure \| Arthur J....	Watches Tell More Than Time: Product...	Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms...	The War of Art: Break Through the...
Blobjects & Beyond: The New...	Design Driven Innovation: Changing the...	Designing Design \| Kenya Hara	Designing Media \| Bill Moggridge	Living with Complexity \| Donald A....
White \| Kenya Hara	The Ice Palace that Melted Away:...	The Design of Future Things \| Donald A...	Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate...	The Invisible Computer: Why Good...
The New Everyday: Views on Ambient...	Evolution \| Karim Rashid	The Order of Things: An Archaeology of...	Masterworks of Technology: The Story of...	In Praise of Shadows \| Junichiro...
Machine Beauty: Elegance And The Heart...	The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity:...	Flow: The Psychology of Optimal...	It's Not How Good You Are, it...	Less and More: The Design Ethos of...
Toothpicks & Logos: Design in...	Where Stuff Comes From: How Toasters,...	Make Design Matter \| David Carlson	NONOBJECT \| Branko Lukic, Barry M. Katz	Karim Rashid: I Want to Change the...
Problems of Design \| George Nelson

	A Designer's Research Manual:...		Research Design: Qualitative,...		Experience Sampling Method: Measuring...		Design Research: Methods and...		Inspired: How To Create Products...
	Limited by Design \| Michael M. Crow and...		The Designer's Guide to Doing...		Universal Methods of Design: 100 Ways...		Design Research Through Practice: From...

Predictable Magic: Unleash the Power of...	The Art of Innovation \| Tom Kelly	The Design of Business: Why Design...	Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the...	By Design: Why There Are No Locks on...
Design For Your Self: Rethinking the...	Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the...	Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative—...	The Back of the Napkin: Solving...	CAD Monkeys, Dinosaur Babies, and T-...
Change by Design: How Design Thinking...	Creating Value by Design: Thoughts and...	Creative Priority: Putting Innovation...	Design is How it Works: How the...	Do You Matter?: How Great Design Will...
A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are...	Open Design Now \| Bas van Abel, Lucas...	Seeing What's Next: Using Theories...	Design Thinking \| Nigel Cross	Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking...
Material Change: Design Thinking and...

1000 Product Designs: Form, Function...	A Taxonomy of Office Chairs \| Jonathan...	50 Favorite Furnishings by Frank Lloyd...	50 Tables: Innovations in Design and...	1000 Chairs \| Charlotte Fiell, Peter...
Against the Grain: Bentwood Furniture...	America at Home: A Celebration of...	The Eames Lounge Chair: An Icon of...	The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic...	Michael Graves Designs: The Art of the...
Matali Crasset: Works \| Matali Crasset...	Dish: International Design for the Home...	Furniture by Design: Lessons in...	Furniture Design \| James Christopher...	Girls Think of Everything: Stories of...
Humble Masterpieces: 100 Everyday...	Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Brands \|...	Rethinking Sitting \| Peter Opsvik	Toilets, Toasters & Telephones \|...	A Life's Design:The Life And Work...

Designing Interactions \| Bill Moggridge	Collapsible: The Genius of Space-Saving...	100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know...	Things That Make Us Smart: Defending...	Designing for People \| Henry Dreyfuss
Engineering Physiology: Bases of Human...	Ergonomics at Work \| David J. Oborne	Designing for Older Adults: Principles...	Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple...	Exposing the Magic of Design: A...
Human Dimension & Interior Space: A...	The Measure of Man and Woman: Human...	Redefining Designing: From Form to...	Organic Design in Home Furnishings \|...	Guidelines and Strategies for Designing...
Transgenerational Design: Products for...	Human Centered Design \| IDEO	Thoughts on Interaction Design, Second...	Handbook of Human Factors Testing and...	Humanscale 1/2/3 \| Niels Diffrient,...
Humanscale 4/5/6 \| Niels Diffrient,...	Humanscale 7/8/9 \| Niels Diffrient,...

Accelerating Innovation: Improving the...	Achieving Planned Innovation: A Proven...	Agile Product Development for Mass...	American Plastic: A Cultural History \|...	Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for...
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by...	Build a Plastic Injection Molding...	The Fundamentals of Product Design \|...	Apple Design \| Friedrich von Borries,...	Thomas Heatherwick: Making Ideas \|...
Sketching User Experiences: The...	Sketching User Experiences: Getting the...	IDEO Method Cards \| IDEO	Design Secrets: Products 2: 50 Real-...	Color Mixing Bible: All You'll...
Material Matters: New Materials in...	Notes on the Synthesis of Form \|...	New Nomads: An Exploration of Wearable...	Design Handbook: Concepts, Materials,...	Engineering Design Methods: Strategies...
Industrial Design Techniques and...	Inspired!: Take Your Product Dream from...	Manufacturing Processes for Design...	Materials for Design \| Victoria Ballard...	Materials for Inspirational Design \|...
Plastic Part Design for Injection...	Product and Furniture Design (The...	Materials and Design, Second Edition:...	Structural Packaging: Design Your Own...	Materiology \| Daniel Kula, Élodie...
The PDMA Handbook of New Product...	FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your...	Process: 50 Product Designs from...	The Color Revolution \| Regina Lee...	Colour Based On Nature \| Irma Boom
Colour and Light \| Ulrich Bachmann	Interaction of Color: New Complete...	Jonathan Adler on Happy Chic Colors \|...	Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color...	Theory of Colours \| Johann Wolfgang von...
More Alive with Color \| Leatrice Eiseman	The New Color Book \| Chronicle Books...	On Vision and Colors / Color Sphere \|...	Designer's Color Manual \| Tom...	The Designer's Toolkit - 1000...
Designer's Guide to Color 1 \|...	Designer's Guide to Color 2 \|...	Designer's Guide to Color 3 \|...	Designer's Guide to Color 4 \|...	Designer's Guide to Color 5 \|...

Biomaterials in Design and Reliability...

The Design and Analysis of Clinical...

Designing Usability Into Medical...

Biodesign: The Process of Innovating...

Dieter Rams: As Little Design as...	Communicating Design \| Daniel M. Brown	Appledesign: The Work of the Apple...	Visual Strategies: A Practical Guide to...	Useful Small Things: Items from the...
Tokyo Style \| TASCHEN	Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative...	Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the...	How To Deliver A TED Talk: Secrets Of...	Personal Space; Updated, The Behavioral...
The Design of Everyday Things \| Donald...	Elements of Design: Rowena Reed...	Objectified. (dvd) \| Gary Hustwit (...	Karim Rashid: Compact Design Portfolio...	Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec \| Ronan...
Patently Female: From AZT to TV Dinners...	Industrial Design A-Z \| Charlotte Fiell...	Designers on Designing \| Terence Conran...	Exhibition Design (Portfolio (Laurence...	Geometry of Design: Studies in...
The Journey of Sebastian Errazuriz \| R...	Envisioning Information \| Edward R....	Why Didn't I Think of That?:...	Naoto Fukasawa \| Naoto Fukasawa,...	Helvetica (DVD) \| Gary Hustuit (...
Urbanized. (DVD) \| Gary Hustuit (...	And Fork: 100 Designers, 10 Curators,...	Masterclass Product Design: Guide to...	China's Design Revolution (Design...	Digipop \| Karim Rashid
KarimSpace: The Interior Design and...	The Klutz Book of Inventions \| John...	Basic Visual Concepts And Principles...	Digital Lighting and Rendering (2nd...	Presentation Techniques \| Dick Powell
Make Space: How to Set the Stage for...	How to See: A Guide to Reading Our Man-...	Perspective: A new system for designers...	To Forgive Design: Understanding...	Confessions of a Generalist \| Niels...

Sketching: The Basics \| Roselien Steur...	Drawing for Product Designers Portfolio...	Deconstructing Product Design:...	Basics Product Design: Idea Searching...	Creating Breakthrough Products:...
Sketch: Karim \| Karim Rashid	Everything but the Walls \| Jasper...	The Design of Things to Come: How...	Design Secrets: Products: 50 Real-Life...	Universal Principles of Design, Revised...
The Economics of Industrial Innovation...	The Product Manager's Handbook \|...	Product Strategy for High Technology...	The Experience Economy (updated edition...	Winning at New Products: Creating Value...
Customer-centric Product Definition:...	Developing Products in Half the Time:...	Drawing for Designers	Prototyping and Low-Volume Production...	Design for the Other 90% \| Cynthia E....
Invention by Design: How Engineers Get...	The Product Development Challenge:...	Reverse Innovation: Create Far From...	Sketching (12th printing): Drawing...	Hoima Bicycle (DVD) \| Jason A. Morris
Prototyping and Modelmaking for Product...

Industry of Nature: Another Approach to...	Vitamin Green \| Joshua Bolchover,...	Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We...	Business Lessons from a Radical...	Design Now! \| Charlotte Fiell and Peter...
The Green Imperative: Natural Design...	Sustainable Solutions: Developing...	Mid-Course Correction: Toward a...	Design for the Real World: Human...	The Nature of Design \| David W. Orr
The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition...	Field Guide to Sustainable Packaging \|...	Cause and Effect \| R. Klanten and S....	The Philosophy of Sustainable Design \|...	Sustainable by Design: Explorations in...
Deep Design: Pathways to a Livable...

The Fisher Body Craftsman Guild: An...	A Century of Automotive Style: 100...	Auto Fundamentals \| Martin T. Stockel,...	Auto Opium: A Social History of...	All Corvettes are Red: The Rebirth of...
Boats With an Open Mind: 75...	Building for Air Travel: Architecture...	The Architect's Apprentice: The...	Masters of Car Design (Genius) \| Larry...	How to Draw Choppers Like a Pro \| Thom...
How to Design Cars Like a Pro \| Thom...	H-Point: The Fundamentals of Car Design...	Driving Style: GM Design's First...