There are a ton of impossibly great design books out there, and it's near impossible to boil them down to a small set. But if you've only got the money or the shelf space for a sacred handful, make them these. Great for gifts too!
Enter a caption (optional)How to Make Sense of Any Mess
by Abby Covert
Thinking in Systems
by Donella Meadows
Make Space
by Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft
Interviewing Users
by Steve Portigal
Designing Design
by Kenya Hara
Shop Class as Soul Craft
Matthew Crawford
Dark Matter and Trojan Horses
by Dan Hill
Design: The Invention of Desire
by Jessica Helfand
The Age of Earthquakes
by Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Now go fill your shelves: Core77 Book Reviews.
Allan Chochinov is a partner of Core77, a New York-based design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts, and Chair of the new MFA in Products of Design graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Allan lectures around the world and at professional conferences including IDSA, AIGA and IxDA, has been a guest critic at various design schools in including Yale University, IIT, Carnegie Mellon, Ravensbourne, RMIT, University of Minnesota, Emily Carr, and RISD. He has moderated and led workshops and symposia at the Aspen Design Conference, the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, Compost Modern, and Winterhouse, and is a frequent design competition juror. Prior to Core77, his work in product design focused on the medical, surgical, and diagnostic fields, as well as on consumer products and workplace systems. He has been named on numerous design and utility patents and has received awards from The Art Directors Club, I.D. Magazine, Communication Arts, and The One Club.
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The 9 Design Books You Must Have on Your Shelf as a Design Student