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Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as a Cultural Promise
by Janet H. Murray
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2012
Digital artifacts from iPads to databases pervade our lives, and the design decisions that …

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Twentieth-Century Design
by Jonathan M. Woodham
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997
The most famous designs of the twentieth century are not those in museums, but in the marketplace. The Coca-Cola bottle and McDonald’s …

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Terence Conran on Design
by Terence Conran
Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 1996
Every single thing that has been made  by man or woman has been designed. We are quick to recognize the designer’s imprint in …

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CULT-URE: Ideas Can Be Dangerous
by Rian Hughes
London: Fiell, 2011
Ideas are the currency of the media-driven world. They shape our very future. Culture is your local consensus reality — your clothing, cuisine …

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Hidden Forms: Seeing and Understanding Things
by Francis Clivio, Hans Hansen and Pierre Mendel
Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser, 2009
The “two-franc task” that Franco Clivio, first lecturer and later director of the department of industrial …

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Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming
by Ellen Lupton, ed.
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2011
The design process involves researching, inventing, and expressing ideas. Sometimes concepts seem to pop out of nowhere, but just …

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Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers
by Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie
New York: Columbia University Press, 2009
Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate readers in one of the hottest …

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The Third Teacher: 79 Ways You Can Use Design to Transform Teaching and Learning
A Collaborative Project of OWP/P Architects, VS Furniture and Bruce Mau Design
New York: Abrams, 2010
Created by an international …

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A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business
by Hartmut Esslinger
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009
For the first time, Hartmut Esslinger, internationally acclaimed designer and founder of frog design, …

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Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis
by Jon Kolko
New York: Oxford University Press, 2011
As the world grows increasingly complex — in issues of …