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Industrial Design Subject Guide
Industrial Design
- Tools for living : a sourcebook of iconic designs for the home (2010)
- Material thoughts (2009)
- American design (2008)
- Industrial design : materials and manufacturing guide (2008)
- 1000 new designs and where to find them : a 21st century sourcebook (2006)
- Industrial design : techniques and materials (2006)
- Phaidon design classics (2006)
- Design chronicles : significant mass-produced designs of the 20th century (2005)
- The industrial design reader (2003)
Product Design
- Materials and design : the art and science of material selection in product design (2010)
- Visual conversations (2010)
- Deconstructing product design : exploring the form, function, usability, sustainability, and commercial success of 100 amazing products (2009)
- The fundamentals of product design (2009)
- Thinking, objects : contemporary approaches to product design (2009)
- Process : 50 product designs from concept to manufacture (2008)
Car Design
- H-point : the fundamentals of car design & packagin (2009)
- Masters of car design (2008)
- Legends of the open road : the history, technology and future of automobile design (2007)
- How to design cars like a pro : a complete guide to car design from the top professionals (2003)
- The car design yearbook : the definitive guide to all new concept and production cars worldwide (2002-2009)
Furniture Design
Miscellaneous
- Toy design (2010)
- Designing for the digital age : how to create human-centered products and services (2009)
- Manufacturing processes for design professionals (2007)
- Sketching : drawing techniques for product designers (2007)
- The designer's atlas of sustainability (2007)
- Becoming a product designer : a guide to careers in design (2004)
- Humanscale (1974, 1981)
eBooks
Current Subscriptions
- A Journal (Available online)
- Auto & Design
- Auto Motor und Sport
- Automobile
- Axis
- Car
- Consumer Reports (Available online)
- Design Issues: History, Theory, Criticism (Available online)
- Innovation: the Quarterly Journal of the Industrial Designers Society of America
- LD+A: Lighting Design + Applications (Available online)
- Machine Design (Available online)
- Metropolis (Available online)
- Popular Science (Available online)
- Surface
- Vintage Motorsport: the Journal of Motor Racing History
Back Issues Only
- Air & Space Smithsonian
- Automotive News (Available online)
- Aviation History (Available online)
- Aviation Week & Space Technology
- Car Styling
- Design
- Design News (Available online)
- Design Quarterly
- Fine Woodworking
- Form Function Finland
- I.D.: the International Design Magazine
- Make: Technology on Your Time
- Modern Plastics
- Popular Mechanics (Available online)
- ReadyMade
- Scientific American
- Sports Car International
- The genius of design (2010)
- Objectified (2009)
- Modeling essentials with StudioTools : industrial design techniques (2007)
- Automotive modeling techniques [DVD-ROM] : polygon modeling with Kevin Hudson (2006)
- Design. Vol. 1 (2006)
- Design. Vol. 2 (2006)
- Product design rendering essentials (2006)
- The films of Charles & Ray Eames (2005)
- Going to table : food and design (2004)
- Lighting : designing new ways to see (2004)
- Sitting down : the art of the chair (2004)
- The techniques of Harald Belker (2004)
Articles and Reference Resources
- Full Text Online Journal and Magazine Articles
- ebrary – Full Text Online Books
Image Websites
- Academy of Art University Digital Image Resources
- Raymond Loewy: The Father of Industrial Design
- SFMOMA ArtScope
- VADS: The Online Resource for Visual Arts
- Wikimedia Commons
Job Websites
Professional Organizations
Grant Information
Other Websites
- Image Resources in the Library (Printed) - Picture Files
- Transportation - Automobile
- Transportation - Aviation
- Transportation - Buses
- Transportation - Motorcycles
- Transportation - Nautical
- Transportation - Railroads
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