Books selected by Jill Chisnell (Art, Architecture & Design Librarian).
Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators: Conversations on Design and Race by
Twelve deeply personal interviews with graphic design educators of color who teach at colleges and universities across the United States and Canada. The book centers the unique narratives of Black, Brown, and Latinx design educators, from their childhood experiences to their navigation of undergraduate and graduate studies and their career paths in academia and practice.
The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection
Spotlights teaching practices, research, stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens.
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by
An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival.
Design Struggles: Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, and Perspectives
An intersectional take on design history and the design discourse, with feminist, decolonial, anti-racist, activist, non-Western and indigenous perspectives.
Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp
The power of design to create a life worth living even in a refugee camp: designs, inventions, and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan.
Designing a World for Everyone: 30 Years of Inclusive Design by
The way we experience the world is largely through the design of the places, products, communications, services, and systems we encounter every day. Over the past 30 years, however, there has been a shift in designing to become more empathic and inclusive of different human needs.
The Disobedience of Design: Gui Bonsiepe
This volume presents for the first time in English a curated selection of writings by the design thinker Gui Bonsiepe from the 1960s to the present day. Addressing as it does questions of non-Western design and a design practice that is both radical and democratic, Bonsiepe's work has assumed new importance for current debates inspired by global political and environmental crises.
Ergodesign Methodology for Product Design: A Human-Centered Approach by
This book presents a co-design detailed methodology that will enable the reader to develop human-centered product designs, considering the user's needs, skills, and limitations.
Made in China, Designed in California, Criticised in Europe: Design Manifesto by
When everything is destined to be designed, design disappears into the everyday. We simply do not see it anymore because it is everywhere. This is the vanishing act of design.
Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design by
The first investigation of how race and gender shaped the presentation and marketing of Modernist decor in postwar America.
No Compromise: The Work of Florence Knoll by
Florence Knoll (1917-2019) was a leading force of modern design. No Compromise looks at Knoll's extraordinary career in close-up, from her student days to her professional accomplishments.
Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design by
An examination of how concepts of "the savage" facilitated technological approaches to modernist design.
Writing Design Fiction: Relocating a City in Crisis by
“Design fiction” is a fast-growing area within design and architecture, increasingly deployed as a serious methodology by designers as a tool in scenario planning. Writing Design Fiction takes the practice to a higher level conceptually and theoretically, but also practically.
Design and Digital Interfaces: Designing with Aesthetic and Ethical Awareness
"Through discussion with cutting-edge designers and thinkers and with international examples, the authors explain how we need an expanded aesthetic, critical and ethical awareness on the part of designers willing to act with sensitivity and understanding towards the people they design for."
Ethics in Design and Communication: Critical Perspectives
This timely collection brings together critical, analytic, historical, and practical studies to address what ethics means in the practice of design.
Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers by
Extra Bold is the inclusive, practical, and informative (design) career guide for everyone!Part textbook and part comic book, zine, manifesto, survival guide, and self-help manual, Extra Bold is filled with stories and ideas that don't show up in other career books or design overviews.