Resources
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Recommended ReadingAfrican Generation: The Power of Design
Fifty designers mapping the creative force of contemporary African design — plural, resourceful, and often made hand-in-hand with local artisans. It frames design as 'an act of solidarity,' a striking illustration of the SDF's Partners component working at the Frontier between craft and industry.
Recommended ReadingA Labour of Love
Edelkoort and Fimmano celebrate craftsmanship as an ethic — profiling new makers across twelve material themes toward responsible, circular, organic production. It joins the SDF's Technological and Procedures components under the Ethics motto: making as a labour of care.
Recommended ReadingA Handbook of Problems
A cross-school collection documenting how seven design programmes tackle local and global problems across industrial, interactive and visual-communication design. It shows the SDF's Procedures and Outcomes at work inside the discipline's institutional and communicational facets.
Recommended ReadingA Book of Things
Jasper Morrison's personal collection of the products and projects that fill and shape our lives — a designer's quiet argument for the value of ordinary, well-made things. A monograph of understated design Outcomes.
Recommended Reading360 Industrial Design: Basics of the Analytical Product Design
Emami walks the full arc of industrial design from first idea to mass production, in illustrated, digestible steps. A working compendium of the SDF's Procedures component — the means and methods that carry a concept through to a finished Outcome.
Recommended Reading101 Things I Learned in Product Design School
A hundred and one crisp lessons that demystify what product designers actually do — a field that borrows from psychology, anthropology, ergonomics, materials and more. A friendly on-ramp to the discipline's institutional facet: how the profession comes to understand and teach itself.
Recommended Reading100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People
A hundred research-backed insights into how people see, think, remember and decide — the psychology a designer is really working with. A compact handbook for the SDF's cornerstone Humans component: design as an intrinsically human act.