Design related reading list

As I’m working on a new design exhibition, a bit of a tidy-up  list was needed. I compiled the following from books lying around at home, in my public library record’s reading history and on my kindle iphone app:

– The Craftsman / Richard Sennett
– The art of the commonplace: agrarian essays of Wendell Berry / edited and introduced by Norman Wirzba
– Cradle To Cradle / William McDonough and Michael Braungart
– Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture / John R. Ehrenfeld
– In the bubble: designing in a complex world / John Thackara
– The design of future things / Donald A. Norman
– Deluxe: how luxury lost its luster / Dana Thomas
– Evocative objects : things we think with / edited by Sherry Turkle
– The evolution of useful things / Henry Petroski
– Massive change / Bruce Mau with Jennifer Leonard and the Institute Without Boundaries
– The human factor: revolutionizing the way people live with technology / Kim Vicente
– Pushing the limits: new adventures in engineering / Henry Petroski
– Toothpicks and logos: design in everyday life / John Heskett
– Twenty-first century design: new design icons from mass market to avant-grade / Marcus Fairs ; foreword by Marcel Wanders
– Design for sport / edited by Akiko Busch
– Techno textiles: revolutionary fabrics for fashion and design / Sarah E. Braddock and Marie O’Mahony
– The artificial kingdom: a treasury of the kitsch experience / Celeste Olalquiaga
– The AZ of modern design / Bernd Polster … [et al.]
– It must be beautiful: great equations of modern science / edited by Graham Farmelo
– Nature in design / Alan Powers
– Beautiful Code / Edited By Andy Oram and Greg Wilson
– 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know / Edited by Kevlin Henney
– Our Choice: A Plan To Save The Climate Crisis / Al Gore
– Earth in the balance: ecology and the human spirit / Al Gore
– Design culture now: National Design Triennial : Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution / Donald Albrecht, Ellen Lupton, Steven Skov Holt
– Ecodesign: the sourcebook / Alastair Fuad-Luke
– At home: a century of New Zealand design / Douglas Lloyd Jenkins
– 40 legends of New Zealand design / Douglas Lloyd Jenkins
– The reinvention of everyday life: culture in the twenty-first century / edited by Howard McNaughton and Adam Lam
– Hiding in the mirror: the mysterious allure of extra dimensions, from Plato to string theory and beyond / Lawrence M. Krauss
– How mumbo-jumbo conquered the world: a short
history of modern delusions / Francis Wheen
– Design art: on art’s romance with design / Alex Coles
– Design – is not equal to – art: functional objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread / Barbara Bloemink and Joseph Cunningham
– The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Design Since 1990 / Guy Julier