Some books that you may find useful on the Product Design Degree at Sussex University

Title Author(s) ISBN

GENERAL

Product Design Paul Rodgers/Alex Milton 978 1 85669 751 4

Design Now Taschen 978-3-8228-5267-5
Elements of Design – the structure of visual Gail Gret Hannah 1-568983298
relationships
Smart Design – Clive Grinyer 2-88046-524-9
The Products of lateral thinking
What is Product design? Laura Slack 978-2-940361-24-3
Basics Product Design 01 Idea Searching David Bramston 2940373760
Basics Product Design 02 Material Thoughts David Bramston 2940373876
Basics Product Design 03 Visual Conversations David Bramston 2940411093
Designing Pleasurable Products Patrick W Jordan 0415298873
Product Design Mike Baxter 0-7487-4197-6
Thinking objects – contemporary approaches to tim parsens 2940373744
product design
Inclusive Design Toolkit J. Clarkson, R. Coleman, I. 0954524322
Hosking, S. Waller
No Logo Naomi Klein 000734077X
Design Secrets: Products 50 real-life projects Industrial Designers Society 1564964760
uncovered of America
How to use Colour in Art and Design Edith Anderson Feisner 1856694410
Objects of Desire – design and society since 1750 Adrian Forty 0500274126
Emotional Design – Why we love (or hate) everyday Donald A Norman 0465051367
things
Living with Complexity Donald A Norman 0262014866
The Design of Everyday Things Donald A Norman 0465067107
Mythologies Roland Barthes 2020005859
Toothpicks and Logos – design in everyday life John Heskett 0192803212
Design Meets Disability Graham Pullin 0262162555
Creative problem solving and engineering Lumsdaine, Edward, 0072360585
design Lumsdaine, Monika
World Changing – Alex Steffen 978-0810930957
A Users Guide for the 21st Century
Successful Project Management M, Brown 0-340-70539-6
Materials/Manufacturing

Manufacturing Processes for the design professional Rob Thompson 978-0-500-51375-0

Making It – Manufacturing techniques for Chris Lefteri 978-1-85669-506-
Product Design 0
Rapid prototyping – Principles & applications Chua, Leong, Lim 9-789812-381200
(2nd Edition)
The Plastics handbook Chris Lefteri 978-2-88893-002-
0
Model Making – A basic guide Marta Sutherland 978-0-393-73042-
5
Materials for inspirational design Chris Lefteri 2940361509
Drawing/Sketching

Sketching the Basics Koos Eisen, Roselien Steur 9063692536

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Betty Edwards 0007116454
Design Sketching Erik Olofsson & Klara Sjölén 978-91-976807-0-7

Drawing for designers Alan Pipes 978-1-85669-533-

6
Design Drawing Francis D K Ching 0470533692
Draw 3D: a step-by-step guide to perspective Dubosque 0939217147
Presentation Techniques – a guide to drawing Dick Powell 0316912433
and presenting design ideas
Sketching: Drawing techniques for Product Koos Eissen, Roselien 9063691718
Designers Steur
Visualizing Ideas: From Scribbles to Storyboards Gregor Krisztian, Nesrin 0500286124
Schlempp-Alker
Drawing Geometry: A primer of Basic forms for Keith Critchlow and Jon 0863156088
artists, designers and architects Allen
Rendering with Markers Ronald B Kemnitzer 0823045323

Geometry of Design: studies in proportion and Kimberley Elam 1568982496

composition (design briefs)
Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artisits – 52 Carla Sonheim 1592536131
creative exercises to make drawing fun
Design Methods

Total Design: Integrated methods for successful Stuart Pugh 0-201-41639-5

product engineering
Engineering Design Methods, Strategies for Nigel Cross 0-471-872250-4
Product Design
Engineering Methods for Robust Product Design. Fowlkes, W. Crevelling, C. 10:0-201-63367-1

Creating Innovative Products using Total Design Stuart Pugh 0201634856

Creative Thinking

The Art of Looking Sideways Alan Fletcher 0714834491

'You can find inspiration in everything (and if Paul Smith 0500284458
you can't look again)' -
Its Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Paul Arden 0714843377
Want To Be
Whatever You Think, Think The Opposite Paul Arden 0141025719
Small is Beautiful – a study of economics as if E F Schumacher 0099225611
people mattered
Age of unreason Charles Handy 0099548313
Sustainable Design

Cradle to Cradle – re-making the way we Michael Braungart, 0099535475

make things William McDonough
How bad are Bananas – the carbon footprint of Mike Berners-Lee 1846688914
everything
The Eco-Design Handbook Alastair Fuad-Luke 0500288399
Ergonomics/anthropometrics

Bodyspace (2nd Edition) Stephen Pheasant 0-7484-0326-4

Anthropometry, Ergonomics & the Design of Work
The Measure of Man and Woman – human Henry Drefuss 0 471 09955 4
factors in design
Graphic Design/Presentation

Design Elements a Graphic Style Manual Timothy Samara 1592532616

Design Diaries creative process in graphic Lucienne Roberts, 185669688X
design Rebecca Wright
Logo Design – volume 3 Julius Wiedemann 383652421X
The best of Brochure Design Kiki Eldridge 1592536344

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