Book Reviews Category

Project Management for Design Professionals by William G. Ramroth covers the practice of Project Management in a straight forward way from start to finish.

Transmaterial is an exquisitely curated, beautifully designed and considered book that will provide any designer with food for thought and inspiration on materials.

The Art of The Start by Guy Kawasaki is a down to earth, practical and very useful book. It is filled with gems of information that will actually help you get whatever you are starting up and running.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 or an entire organization, you need to be good at one thing. Communication. Effective communication is what will make your world changing idea stick in peoples minds and allow you to bring your idea into reality. Thus I am very surprised that Made to Stick:…

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

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.