The Evolution of Useful Things: How everyday artifacts – from forks and pins to paper clips and zippers – came to be as they are

Material World

Ed Conway

Design for a better World

Don Norman

Introduction to Modern Design

George H.

The design of everyday things

Donald A. Norman

The Materials Sourcebook for Design Professionals

Rob Thompson

The Politics of Design

Ruben Pater

When Design Really Works

Susie Hodge

What makes great design

Susie Hodge

The story of design

Charlotte Fiell

An Engineer's Alphabet Gleanings from the Softer Side of a Profession

Henry Petroski

Folding Techniques for Designers

Paul Jackson

1001 Inventions that Changed the World

Jack Challoner

The Shock Of The Old

Edgerton, David

Designing interactions

Bill Moggridge

A Design Manual

Shirl Brainard

How designers think

Bryan Lawson

Small Things Considered Why There Is No Perfect Design

Henry Petroski

The Book of Inventions

Ian Harrison

Design

Paul Clark

Starck

Simone Philippi

Design for the 21st century

Charlotte Fiell

The Industrial Revolution

Steven M.

Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things

Cy Tymony

Inventing the 20th century

Stephen Van Dulken

Paperboy

Petroski, Henry

CRADLE TO CRADLE

Michael Braungart

Design basics

David A.

Twentieth Century Design

Jonathan M. Woodham

Invention by Design

Petroski, Henry

The Story of Architecture

Patrick Nuttgens

Great Design Using Non-Traditional Materials

Sheree Clark

American Genesis A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970

Thomas Parke Hughes

Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions

Degrace, Peter

Objects of Desire

Adrian Forty

Pebbles to computers

Hans Blohm

50 Years Of American Automobile Design: 1930-1980

Dick Nesbitt

Systematic Design of Industrial Products

Eskild Tjalve

Industrial design