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The Designful Company: How to Build a Culture of Nonstop Innovation

October 22, 2009
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Are you looking for a quick, but insightful overview of what it takes to build your company into an innovation powerhouse using design? Then Marty Neumeier’s newest book The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation is exactly what you are looking for.

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Humble Masterpieces: Everyday Marvels of Design

September 16, 2009
Humble Masterpieces: Everyday Marvels of Design by Paola Antonelli

Humble Masterpieces: Everyday Marvels of Design is highly recommended for any designer who is searching for a truly inspirational book to add to their collection.

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Book Review: The Keys to Creativity

July 10, 2009
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While The Keys to Creativity: How to unlock your imagination and creative potential by Gary Bertwistle is not specifically aimed at hyper-creatives like designers, it is still worth a read.

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Book Review: Outliers

June 17, 2009
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A review of award winning author Malcolm Gladwell’s highly engaging and enjoyable book Outliers: The Story of Success.

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Book Review: Made to Stick

June 2, 2009
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Industrial Designers are in the business of bringing ideas into reality. The single biggest hurdle regularly faced by designers in order to bring their idea into the world is convincing others that their idea is good enough to take a chance on. In order to convince someone, be it an individual, a board of directors [...]

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Book Review: Thoughtless Acts?

April 28, 2009

Thoughtless Acts? by Jane Fulton Suri is a human centered design methodology, observational primer for Industrial Designers and Anthropologists.

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Book Review: Everyday Engineering

April 21, 2009
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As Industrial Designers we must take the time to gain a better understanding of the way Engineers see the world. One quick and easy way to do this is to grab a copy of Andrew Burroughs’ little black book, Everyday Engineering.

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Book Review: Sex Design

April 16, 2009
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Look at almost any object that has been designed, in the right way, and you can see how it can be construed in a sexual manner. Sex is a theme that permeates the world of Industrial and Product design. Sex is undeniably everywhere and is one of the few things in this world that is truly global.

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