Design Philosophy
The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine Benyus
Cats Paws and Catapults by Steven Vogel
Conceptual Blockbusting by James Adams
Corporate Creativity: How Innovation and Improvement Actually Happen by Alan Robinson
Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmaihalyi
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch
The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture by Frank Wilson
The Meaning of Things by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander
The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention by David Noble
Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things by John Ryan & Alan Durning
Technopoly by Neil Postman
Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine by Donald Norman
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Understanding Media by Marshall McCluhan
The Universal Traveler by Dan Koberg
The Unknown Craftsman : A Japanese Insight into Beauty by Soetsu Yanagi
Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich by Duane Elgin
Visual Explanations by Edward Tufte
Weird Ideas that Work by Robert Sutton
Design Basics
The Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors in Design by Henry Dreyfuss Associates
The Inventor's Notebook by Fred Grissom & David Pressman
Patent It Yourself! by David Pressman
Design History
American Steel by Richard Preston
Art and Physics by Leonard Shlain
Cadillac Desert : The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reiser
The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Harpers Ferry Armory and New Technology by Merritt Smith
Longitude : The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production by James Womack
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
Nothing Like It in the World : The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 by Stephen Ambrose
Path Between the Seas : the Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance by Henry Petroski
Twentieth Century Design by Jonathan Woodham
Drawing
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
Experiences in Visual Thinking by Robert McKim
How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way by Stan Lee & John Buscema
Perspective Drawing Handbook by Joseph D'Amelio
Rapid Viz by Hanks and Belliston
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Visual Thinking by Rudolph Arnheim
Picture Books - Products
1000 Extra/Ordinary Objects by Oliviero Toscani
1000 Chairs by Peter Fiell (editor)
American Furniture (annual) by Luke Beckerdite
Building a New Millenium by Taschen
Design Culture Now by Donald Albrecht
Design of the 20th Century
Digital Dreams : The Work of the Sony Design Center by Paul Kunkel
Droog and Dutch Design by Droog Dutch
Ideo: Masters of Innovation by Jeremy Myerson
Lifestyles by Bruce Mau
Maeda @ Media by John Maeda, Nicholas Negroponte
Marc Newson by Alice Rawsthorn
The Product Book by Catherine McDermott
Rethink by Tom Dixon
Robin + Lucienne Day - Pioneers of Design by Lesley Jackson
Sagmeister: Made You Look by Peter Hall and Stefan Sagmeister
SuperDutch : New Architecture in the Netherlands by Bart Lootsma
Starck by Conway Lloyd Morgan
Workspheres : Design and Contemporary Work Styles by Paola Antonelli
World Design
Picture Books - Graphics
Minimal Graphics: The Powerful New Look of Graphic Design by Catharine Fishel
Swiss Graphic Design by Robert Klanten
TM, Trademarks Designed by Chermayeff & Geismar
White Graphics : The Power of White in Graphic Design by Gail Finke
Young German Graphics
Young Swiss Graphics
Picture Books - Other
Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Francis Naumann
