Some reference books that I recommend:
- Da Cosa Nasce Cosa | by Bruno Munari
- Future Tech: Innovations in Transportation | by Paul Schilperoord
- Design for Sustainability: A Sourcebook of Integrated, Eco-logical Solutions | by Janis Birkeland
- Design for the Real World | by Victor Papanek
- Design with light | by Victoria Meyers
- Designing for people | by Henry Dreyfuss
- Drawing for Designers | by Alan Pipes
- Massive Change | by Bruce Mau
- MAKING IT: Manufacturing techniques for product design | by Chris Lefteri
- Manufacturing processes for design professionals | by Rob Thompson
- Material World 2 – Innovative materials for architecture and design | by Matério
- Materials for inspirational design | by Chris Lefteri
- New Chairs – Design, technology and materials, by Mel Byars
- Problem Solved | by Michael Johnson
- The Green Imperative | by Victor Papanek
- The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) | by John Maeda
- Ultra Materials: How Materials Innovation Is Changing the World | by George M. Beylerian, Michele Caniato, Andrew Dent and Bradley Quinn
Books recommended by O2:
“This is not about bookcharts or the latest best buy, but about books that have proven themselves over a couple of years globally. “
- Biomimicry, by Janine M. Benyus
- Cradle to Cradle, by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
- Design for Sustainability (D4S) manual, by DfS TUD & UNEP
- Droog Design, by Renny Ramakers and Gijs Bakker
- Ecodesign Navigator, by Matthew Simon and others
- Factor Four, by Ernst von Weizsaecker
- Green Design, by Dorothy Mackenzie
- Lightness, by Adriaan Beukers and Ed van Hinte
- New Business for Old Europe, Edited by Arnold Tukker and Ursula Tischner
- Our Ecological Footprint, by Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees
- Our private sky, by R. Buckminster Fuller, The Art of Design Science
- The Eco-Design Handbook, by Alastair Fuad-Luke
- The Green Imperative, by Victor Papanek
- Trespassers, by Conny Bakker and Ed van Hinte
- Worldchanging, Edited by Alex Steffen
Some reference books that any designer must read:
- 300 Years of Industrial Design: Function, Form, Technique 1700-2000, by Adrian Heath
- 500 Fantastic Cars: A Century of the World’s Concept Cars, by Serge Bellu
- A History of Modern Design, by David Raizman
- Access by Design, by George A. Covington, Bruce Hannah
- And Fork: 100 Designers, 10 Curators, 10 Good Designs, by Tom Dixon
- Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye, by Rudolf Arnheim
- Becoming a Product Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design, by Bruce Hannah
- Bucky Works, by J. Baldwin
- Business´and Legal Forms for Industrial Designers, by Tad Crawford, Eva Doman Bruck, Carl Battle
- By Design, by Ralph Caplan
- Concept Car Design: Driving the Dream, by Jonathan Bell
- Cradle to Cradle, by William McDonough, Michael Braunqart
- Design and Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods, by Helen Lewis
- Design for the Other 90%, by Tom Dixon
- Design Secrets: Products2: 50 Real-Life Projects Uncovered, by Lynn Haller, Cheryl Dangel Cullen
- Designers On Design, by Terence Conran, Max Fraser
- Designing Interactions, by Bill Moggridge
- Eliot Noyes
- Else/Where: Mapping New Cartographies of Networks and Territories, by Janet Abrams
- Emerging Technologies and Housing Prototypes, by Salvador Perez Arroyo, Rossana Atena and Igor Kebel
- Evocative Objects: Things We Think With by Sherry Turkle
- False Flat, by Aaron Betsky, Adam Euwens
- From Edison to iPod, by Frederick Mostert and Lawrence Apolzon
- Furnish: Furniture and Interior Design for the 21st Century
- Higher Creativity for Virtual Teams: Developing Platforms for Co-Creation, by Steven P. MacGregor and Teresa Torres-Coronas
- Hot-Wiring Your Creative Process, by Curt Cloninger
- In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World, by John Thackara
- Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step, by Edward De Bono
- Made with FontFont, by Jan Middendorp and Erik Spiekermann
- Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, by Peter Turchi
- Materials and Design: The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design, by Michael Ashby
- Naoto Fukasawa, by Naoto Fukasawa, Antony Gormley, and Jasper Morrison
- Objects of Design: The Museum of Modern Art, by Paola Antonelli
- Otl Aicher, by Markus Rathgeb
- Planet of the Blind, by Stephen Kuusisto
- Principles of Color Design, by Wucius Wong
- Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design
- by Michael Bierut
- Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design, by Michael Bierut
- Shaping Things, by Bruce Sterling
- The Anatomy of Design, by Steven Heller and Mirko Ilic
- The Design Encyclopedia by Mel Byars, by Terence Riley
- The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald A. Norman
- The Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability, by Ann Thorpe
- The Eco-Design Handbook: A Complete Sourcebook for the Home and Office, by Alastair Fuad-Luke
- The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability, by Paul Hawken
- The Industrial Design Reader, by Carma Gorman
- The Internet Imaginaire, by Patrice Flich
- The Myths of Innovation, by Scott Berkun
- The Paradox of Choice, by Barry Schwartz
- The Pentagram Papers, edited by Delphine Hirasuna
- The Poetics of Space, by Gaston Bachelard
- The Substance of Style, by Virginia Postrel
- The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention, by Donald Albrecht
- Thoughts on Interaction Design, by Jon Kolko
- Thoughtless Acts?: Observations On Intuitive Design, by Jane Fulton Suri
- Visual Thinking, by Rudolf Arnheim
- Ways of Seeing, by John Berger
- Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century, by Alex Steffen
