*You read all these tomes and I promise your brain will buzz
like a swarm of worker bees.HIGH GROUND 2006
Design Conversation
DESIGN READING SUGGESTIONS
(prepared by Hazel Clark from 2006 participant’s suggestions)
Alexander, Christopher, A Pattern Language which generates multi-service centers, California: Center for Environmental Structure, 1968
Alexander, Christopher, The Nature of Order: an essay on the art of building & the nature of the universe, California: Center for Environmental Structure, 1968
Banham, Reyner, Los Angeles; The Architecture of Four Ecologies, New York: Harper & Row, 1971
Brown, Lester Russell, Plan B 2.0, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., c2006
Caplan, Ralph, By Design, New York: St. Martin’s Press, c1982
Dermoût, Maria, Ten Thousand Things, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1983
Dunne, Anthony, Design Noir: the secret life of electronic objects, London: August ; Basel : Birkhauser, c2001
Eisenman, Elizabeth, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, Cambridge [England ] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1979
Flinchum, Russell, Henry Dreyfuss, industrial designer : the man in the brown suit, New York : Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution & Rizzoli, 1997
Forty, Adrian, Objects of Desire, New York : Pantheon Books, 1986
Frauenfelder, Mark, ed., Make: Technology On Your Time, Sebastapool,
CA: O’Reilly Media Inc., published quarterly, currently on issue #7
http://makezine.com/magazine/
Gore, Al, Steffen, Alex & Sterling, Bruce, Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21 Century, 2006
Greenfield, Adam, Everyware, Berkeley, California : New Riders, c2006
Hawkins, Paul, National Capitalism, Little, Brown & Co., c1999
Hawkins, Jeff, On Intelligence, New York: Times Books, 2004
Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide.
New York: NYU Press. 2006. ISBN 0814742815
Kinross, Robin, Modern Typography: An essay in critical history, London: Hyphen Press 1992
Loewy, Raymond, Never Leave Well Enough Alone, Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, c1992
Lupton, Ellen, Design, Writing, Research: writing on graphic design, New York: Kiosk,
1996
McCloud, Scott, Understanding Comics, Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1993
McDonough, William, Cradle to Cradle: remaking the way we make things (1st ed), New York: North Point Press, 2002
Neuhart, John, Eames Design: the work of the office of Charles and Ray Eames, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1989
Norman, Donald, The Design of Everyday Things, Doubleday/Currency (1st ed)., New York: Doubleday, 1990, c1988
Norman, Donald, Emotional Design: why we love (or hate) everyday things, New York: Basic Books, c2004
Papanek, Victor, Design for the Real World; human ecology and social change [1st. American ed.], New York: Pantheon Books [1972, c1971]
Petroski, Henry, The Evolution of Useful Things 1st edition, New York: Knopf, 1992
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Pioneers of the Modern Movement: from William Morris to Walter Gropius, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Col., 1937
Potter, Norman, What Is a Designer? : things places, messages (3rd edition), London: Hyphen, 1989
Pulos, Arthur, J, American Design Ethic: a history of industrial design to 1940, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1983
Rudofsky, Bernard, The Unfashionable Human Body, Garden City, NY. Doubleday, 1971
Sterling, Bruce, & Wild, Lorraine, Shaping Things (Mediaworks Pamphlets). 2005
Schouwenberg, Louise, Hella Jongerius, London; New York, NY: Phaidon, 2003
Thackara, John, In The Bubble: design in a complex world, Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005
Thompson, Phillip, The Dictionary of Graphic Images, New York: St. Martin’s Press, c1980
Venturi, Robert, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, New York: Museum of Modern Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, Boston, 1977
Venturi, Robert, Learning from Las Vegas: the forgotten symbolism of architectural form, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1977
Waldrop, Mitchell, The Dream Machine: J.C. Licklider and the revolution that made computing personal, New York: Viking, 2001
Steve Weber: The Success of Open Source, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press, 2005
