The list below contains
publications with subjects categorized by designers, companies, general
history or period specific history. Some of the books below are presently
out of print but may be available from libraries or used booksellers.
Designers
Design:
Dieter Rams
Dieter Rams, 1980-81. Gerhardt Verlag, Berlin.
Design: Vignelli
Paul W. Goldberger, 1981. Rizzoli New York.
Design for the
Real World
Victor Papanek, 1973. Bantam Book.
Henry Dreyfuss,
Industrial Designer: The Man in the Brown Suit
Russell Flinchum, 1997. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian
Institution and Rizzoli. New York.
Horizons
Norman Bel Geddes, 1932. Little Brown & Co.
Industrial Design
Raymond Loewy, 1979. Overlook Press, New York.
Never Leave Well
Enough Alone
Raymond Loewy, 1951. Simon and Schuster.
Operating Manual
for Spaceship Earth
Buckminster Fuller, 1969. Southern Illinois University Press.
The Work of Charles
and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention
Donald Albrecht, Beatriz Colomina, Joseph Giovannini, Charles Eames and
Philip Morrison. 1997. Library of Congress, Vitra Design Museum and Harry
Abrams. New York.
Vision in Motion
Laslo Moholy-Nagy, 1947. Paul Theobold, Chicago.
Women Designers
in the USA: 1900-2000
Pat Kirkham, Editor, Yale University Press.
Companies
Against the Grain: Bentwood Furniture from the Collection of Fern
and Manfred Steinfeld
Ghenete Zelleke, Eva B. Ottillinger and Nina Stritzler, 1993. The Art
Institute of Chicago.
The Dream Factory:
Alessi Since 1921
Alberto Alessi, 1998. Konemann. Cologne.
General History
100 Designs/100 Years-Innovative Designs of the 20th Century
Mel Byars with Alette Barre Despond, 1999. Rotovision SA. Switzerland.
300 Years of Industrial
Design
Adrian and Ditte Heath and Aage Lund Jensen, 2000. Watson-Guptill.
A History of Design
from the Victorian Age to the Present
Ann Ferebee, 1970. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
America at Home
Victoria Matranga, 1997. National Housewares Manufacturers Association.
American Design
Ethic
Arthur J. Pulos,
1983. MIT Press.
American Plastics
Jeffrey L. Meikle, 1995. Rutgers University Press.
By Design
Ralph Caplan, 1982. St. MartinŐs Press.
Encyclopedia of
20th Century Design and Designers
Guy Julier, 1993. Thames and Hudson, Ltd.
Graphic Design
- A Concise History
Richard Hollis, 1994. Thames and Hudson.
In Good Shape
Stephen Bayley, 1979. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company.
Industrial Design
John Heskett, 1985. Thames & Hudson.
Industrial Design
- Reflection of a Century
Imprimerie Clerc SA, Saint Armand-Montrond, 1993.
Landmarks of Twentieth
Century Design
Kathryn B. Hiesinger and George H. Marcus, 1993. Abbeville Press.
Machine Beauty
David Gelernter, 1998. Basic Books. Perseus.
Made in the USA
Phil Patton, 1992. Peguin Books.
Notes on the Synthesis
of Form
Christopher Alexander, 1964. Harvard University Press.
Objects of Desire:
Design and Society Since 1750
Adrian Forty, 1986. Thames and Hudson. London.
One Hundred Great
Product Designs
Jay Doblin, 1970. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
The Alliance of
Art and Industry:
Toledo Designs for a Modern America
Toledo Museum of Art, 2002. Hudson Hills Press.
The American Design
Adventure
Arthur J. Pulos, 1988. MIT Press.
The Conran Dictionary
of Design
Stephen Bayley, 1985. Villard Books. New York.
The Design Dimension
Christopher Lorenz, 1886. Basil Blackwell Ltd.
The Design of
Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman, 1988. Doubleday.
The Dictionary
of 20th Century Design
John Pile, 1994. DaCapo Press.
The Illustrated
Dictionary of 20th Century Designers:
Key Personalities in Design and the Applied Arts
Peter Dormer (introduction), 1991. Mallard Press. New York.
The Look of the
Century
Michael Tambini, 1996. DK Publishing. London.
The New Design
Source Book
Penny Sparke, Felice Hodges, Emma Dent Coad, Anne Stone, and Hugh Aldersey-Williams,
1986. Knickerbocker Press. New York.
Theory and Design
in the First Machine Age
Reyner Banham, 1960. The Architectural Press; 1980, 1992 MIT Press.
Period Specific
Bauhaus
Frank Whitford, 1984. Thames and Hudson, Ltd. London.
Design Since 1945
Peter Dormer, 1993. Thames and Hudson Ltd.
Design Since 1945
Kathryn B. Hiesinger, 1983. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
German Design
1870-1918
John Heskett, 1986. Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc.
Streamlined: A
Metaphor for Progress:
The Esthetics of Minimized Drag
Claude Lichtenstein and Franz Engler, 1994. Lars Muller Publishers. Zurich.
The Bauhaus
Hans Wingler, 1969. MIT Press.
The Machine Age
in America 1918-1941
1986. The Brooklyn Museum, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York.