(Part 3) Best industrial & product design books according to redditors

Your challenge is to show what value your position adds to the company. That argument is almost always going to be best framed within how that company operates -- not something anyone in this thread but you understands even on a basic level.

Just my opinion: Escaping the Build Trap provides a good foundation on which to build your arguments. UX sits very thoroughly under the topics discussed within -- and you can probably find this particular book on the high seas for free.

But if this is true:

> the design team does not want me

I don't see what convincing the CEO changes. Unless you're actually some sort of product management wizard, you're going to have an awfully hard time working with that team effectively.

A Visual History of Cookery has a great section on all of the points you mentioned. It covers everything from hot dogs and convenience foods, to the great depression and wartime foods, to Asian, Mexican, European, etc. influences on American food and how they were imported into the American culture.

Cars

Photography

Comic Books 1, 2

Apple

LEGO's

American Football

PostSecret

Video Games

Vinyl

Warhol

Outdoors

Star Wars

Motorcycles

The Dark Knight

Paris

Interior Design

World Atlas

Banksy

Wes Anderson

Tribal Cultures

Playboy

Girls

Libraries

The Cosmos

The Beetles

Travel

Preppy

Steve McQueen

The Moon

An Essential Reading List For Designers

Source: www.tomfaulkner.co.uk

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Architecture

• The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture by Phaidon
  
• The Architecture of the City by Aldo Rossi
  
• Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown & Steven Izenour
  
• Modern Architecture since 1900 by William J R Curtis
  
• Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Phaidon
  
  Communication Design
  
  
• Essentials of Visual Communication by Bo Bergström
  
• Visual Language for Designers by Connie Malamed
  
• Visual Communication: From Theory to Practice by Jonathan Baldwin & Lucienne Roberts
  
• This Means This, That Means That: A User's Guide to Semiotics by Sean Hall
  
• Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture by Marita Struken & Lisa Cartwright
  
  Fashion Design
  
  
• Fashion Design Course by Steven Faerm
  
• Fashion Today by Colin McDowell
  
• The Fashion Designer Survival Guide by Mary Gehlhar
  
• Deluxe: How Luxury Lost it Lustre by Dana Thomas
  
• The Fashion Book by Angela Buttolph Editors of Phaidon ?
  
  Furniture Design
  
  
• Furniture Design by Stuart Lawson
  
• Eames by Gloria Koenig
  
• Design of the 20th Century by Charlotte & Peter Fiell
  
• 1000 Chairs by Charlotte & Peter Fiell
  
• The Encyclopedia of Furniture by Joseph Aronson
  
  Game Design
  
  
• The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses by Jess Schell
  
• Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster
  
• [Challenges for Game Designers](Challenges for Game Designers) by Brenda Brathwaite
  
• Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design by Scott Rogers
  
• Screenplay: The Foundation of Screenwriting by Syd Field
  
  Graphic Design
  
  
• Grid System in Graphic Design by Josef-Muller Brockmann
  
• The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher
  
• A Type Primer by John Kane
  
• The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
  
• The New Typography by Jan Tschichold
  
  Information Design
  
  
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
  
• Show Me The Numbers:Desiginingg Tables and Graphs to Enlighten by Stephen Few
  
• Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte
  
• Information is Beautiful by David McCandless
  
• Information Graphic by Sandra Rendgen
  
  
  Industrial Design
  
  
• The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
  
• The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda
  
• Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals by Rob Thompson
  
• Process: 50 Product Design from Concept to Manufacture by Jennifer Hudson
  
• Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell
  
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http://www.amazon.com/FIRE-Inexpensive-Restrained-Elegant-Innovation-ebook/dp/B00FJ3A6FC/

FIRE: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation Kindle Edition
by Dan Ward

A few things off the top of my head:

Creative Confidence By Tom and David Kelly (IDEO) - In fact, anything by these guys as IDEO are a great resource for design thinking.

Wacom Pen and Touch S Perfectly adequate starter tablet for sketching on a laptop.

Sketchbook Pro to go with it

Product Sketches - Great book with sketches of everyday things from Ideation to presentation quality.

Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design - Really good book covering the basics of industrial processes to manufacture objects.

Copic Multiliner set - maybe with some stationary. I fucking love stationary. Could combine this with a Moleskin or Field Notes notebook

Steal Like an Artist - cute, short book with a great message about how its not what you steal but how you steal it.

Kor 'Hydration Vessel' - I've had one for like 3 years.

Films:

• Boikzmoind
  
• Hardbrakers
  
  

  Books
  

• Velo: Bicycle Culture and Design
  
• Fixed
  
• The Cult of Fixed 42x12

I found this book really good.
https://www.amazon.com/Prototype-Product-Practical-Getting-Market-ebook/dp/B013RW37JS

I HIGHLY recommend reading Laura Klein’s Building Better Products. It goes through the whole process of identifying metrics you want to shift, prioritizing, and testing.

Link here.. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Manfred-Rossler-Zenith-Manufacture-Hardcover/dp/B00E7G7538/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503931824&sr=8-1&keywords=Manfred+Rossler

If anyone wants to get started with poker theory this book is a great introduction to GTO decisions.

1. A lot of this is piecing together bits from here and there. One cool example is the book Orchestrating Experiences, which has some cool case studies (e.g., how does CVS pharmacy work seamlessly when inside a Target). Can't find it now, but I recall the Intercom blog having some cool stuff on this too.
   
   
2. Just do some searches on the Mckinsey site and you will find tons of articles and services related to this topic. If you do Google News searches for "consultancy acquires UX" or something similar you can see a pretty clear trend (McKinsey bought Lunar in 2015, IBM which is really more of a consultancy made a few over the years, Accenture acquired Fjord in 2013, Ernst and Young bought Seren, Wipro bought Designit, Deloitte has bought Ubermind and a few others, PwC bought Pond, etc. etc.).

Sixties Design A fun romp through the sixties curvy day glow design bent
Eames: Beautiful DetailsDefinitive Eames Book.
Industrial Design Raymond Loewy My favorite all time designer.
Infrastructure by Brian Hayes Not Sexy, but necessary.
Industrial Design A-Z, Taschen Everything by the letters.
PreFab HousesGood, if dated a little on prefab potential
1000 Chairs Bible of chairs
Things Come Apart They destroyed it beautifully for you
Trespass Street Art photographed and credited
Type Vol. 2 The Taschen site-order version comes with a digital code for Hi-Res digital downloads of each plate. Not sure if the amazon version does. Still worth it either way.
D&AD 11 All the D&AD books are a real tight look at that years best and worst commercial work.
Logo Design 2 I'm sure this has been updated, but good enough and much cheaper now.
DDR Design I have a soft spot for bolshevik propaganda forced into design.
1000 Retail Graphics It is what it says it is, not much more. Good for brainstorming, but not really inspiring.

Some cycling lit?
http://www.amazon.com/Custom-Bicycles-Passionate-Christine-Elliott/dp/186470313X

http://www.rouleur.cc/

Alors, j’ai fouillé dans ma bibliothèque et un peu sur internet, voilà quelques idées. Je mets ça ici parce que ça peux intéresser d’autres personnes. C’est en vrac, thématique, et a pondérer en fonction de ses goûts, je ne la connais pas.

Du concret avec : « Design Secrets : Product »
http://www.amazon.fr/Design-Secrets-Products-Real-Life-Uncovered/dp/1564964760
Le bouquin est pas mal parce qu’il présente des vrais cas de création d’agence (1 ou 2 double-page(s) par objet). Du coup les dessins et photos ne sont pas forcément ultra sexy, mais c’est la vraie vie « en coulisse » (vrais roughs pas refaits pour l’occasion, photos, 3D de recherche, etc). Après, gros défaut, il date un peu donc les projets aussi et c’est dommage, mais ils ont sorti un n°2 http://www.amazon.fr/Design-Secrets-Products-Real-life-Uncovered/dp/1592532926 que je ne connais pas mais qui est peut-être plus contemporain. (c’est en anglais mais c’est encore mieux comme ça elle va apprendre du vocabulaire technique)

De la bonne grosse théorie avec : « La mécanisation au pouvoir » de Siegfried Giedion.
Il va être super dur à trouver s’il n’y a pas eu de réédition, mais c’est un livre très important sur les origines de l’industrialisation et du design. Le genre de livre que tu abordes avec méfiance et qui est en fait tout simplement passionnant, et fondateur dans la discipline. Donc si elle a la fibre pour tout ce qui est conceptuel, histoire, histoire des arts, philo, ça peut valoir le coup de le chercher (mais ça va être dur donc…).

Du pratique avec « Structural packaging » :
La version que j’ai retrouvée n’est pas la même que la mienne, mais elle a l’air encore mieux ! http://www.amazon.com/Structural-Packaging-Design-Boxes-Forms/dp/1856697533 Le bouquin est assez cool parce qu’il a des applications dans plein de domaines : packaging donc, mais aussi mobilier, pré-maquettes, maquettes, recherche de forme… et peu aussi se transposer dans d’autres matériaux (avec le plastique ça marche très bien par exemple, un de mes potes a fait son diplôme de DSAA sur ce sujet dans le domaine du mobilier). Un bouquin utile, que tu consulte régulièrement et qui ouvre des possibilités de créas.

Sinon il y a le classique abonnement à « Intramuros » :
C’est LA revue de design, avec tout ce qui sort et se fait en ce moment, mais après c’est cher quand même (peut-être la version digitale ?) et personnellement je n’aime pas trop ce genre de format avec masse de pub et beaucoup de produit « design-d’art » ou « déco » ou « archi » plus que design produit ou industriel. Et puis ça prend de la place et c’est pénible à reconsulter (mais la encore la version digitale peut-être ?). Ceci dit à son stade d’étude elle en profitera pas mal je pense, au niveau culture et designers ou éditeurs contemporains. On est plus dans le côté fashion du design mais il y a de très belles choses et ça peut être une (très) bonne idée. http://www.intramuros.fr/accueil_intramuros_magazine.php

Sinon il y a tout ce qui est relatif aux logiciels 3D : Rhino 3D donc (le plus utile et utilisé, au moins dans les petites agences), et Blender je dirais, parce qu’il est libre, puissant et donnera de bonnes bases. C’est plus délicat parce que ça dépend de ce qu’ils voient à l’école, mais s’ils n’en font pas trop c’est indispensable ; et ce sera de toutes façon une grosse plus value pour son book et ses projets, tout en apportant des bases qui seront transposables sur d’autre logiciels s’ils ne sont pas utilisés dans les agences où elle fera stages / boulot. Après je n’en ai pas vraiment à recommander parce que j’apprends plus avec des tutos sur des sujets précis, et il faut encore qu’elle ai la fibre… et puis, enfin, si Blender est gratuit Rhino3D ne l’est pas, et je ne sais pas si ils ont une version éducation (sinon il va falloir le « trouver »…)

Et pour finir les livres plus de fanboy : sur Jonathan Ives et son travail chez Apple par exemple (extraordinaire au niveau esthétique ET suivi de production), Philippe Starck (le mec est narcissique à l’extrême et pénible mais aussi brillant : http://www.amazon.fr/Starck-explications-Philippe/dp/2844262104/ref=la_B001JXXLIK_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1451732861&sr=1-3), ou alors mes dieux personnel : Alberto Meda (rien trouvé qu’en Italien hélas) et Dieter Rams (le mec qui a inventé le design d’apple pour Braun dans les années 60, rien que ça…).

The Book How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer by Adrain Newey is fantastic!!

BTW - I liked this book by Alex Milton about product design: http://www.amazon.com/Product-Design-Portfolio-Alex-Milton/dp/1856697517

I think this book is incredible!! Always seeing the packaging from it pop up here and there!

Ok, I guess Car&Driver is also shit journalism then?

Same for Roadshow I guess?

Likewise for Business Insider then?

Oh...and you should complain to Amazon for this item being false advertising.

I can do this all day long, or you can show me a single source to backup your claim.

Or you can just admit to being wrong, which is something you should have done 5 comments ago.

It keeps the fruit fresh longer which cuts down on food waste especially when transporting to areas of the world that don’t usually get bananas.

Now is there a more biodegradable and recyclable material that is light for transportation other than plastic wrap that can keep the fruit fresher longer is another question?

Update: Book on the argument Why Shrinkwrap a Cucumber?: The Complete Guide to Environmental Packaging

Suggest doing research for yourself on the debate.