Life @ Otis : Library

Product Design

Materials Databases

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Library Book Sections of Interest

Products, production, and history	TS 171	Design history	NK 1175 NK 1320
Business	HF 5415.153	Inventions and new product marketing Design	NK 1390
General design (material that includes both decorative & industrial) Technology (General)	T 180	Exhibitions that highlight the developments & history of industrial design Technology (Engineering)	TA 166
Ergonomics and human factors research technology	TS 23	History of industrial design in the US	TS 57
History of industrial design in the UK	TS 79	History of industrial design in Italy (and so forth)	TS 140
Biographies of individual designers	TS 144-149	Industrial design -- general	TS 155
Furniture history	NK 2270 - 2750	Automobile history	TL23
Furniture history--California	HD 9773	Decorative arts--history	NK
Inventions & inventors--history	T19	Lighting	NK 2115 TH 7703-7975
Textiles	NK 8802 - 9022 TS 1309 - 1866	Ceramics, pottery, porcelain	NK 3900 - 4399 TP 807 - 809
Glass	TP 852 - 862	Plastic	TP 1117 - 1122
House furnishings -- history	HD 9773	Household appliances -- history	TX 23
Kitchen, bathrooms, household appliances	TX 17 - 23 TX 298 - 311 NK 2110 - 2117	Cameras	TR 250
Jeans (denim) -- history	GT 2085 HD 9940

Product Design headings to use when doing a subject browse search in the OPAC:
Design, industrial
New products
Product management
Inventions
or add History to the name of any product

Others that might be helpful:
Human engineering
Patents
Plastics
Three-dimensional display systems (though we have nothing specifically on Rhino)
Mechanical drawing

Magazines of Interest
Azure: Design, Architecture and Art
Domus
E-Design
Harvard Design Magazine
I.D. [formerly International Design]
Intramuros
Newdesign
Readymade
Surface Magazine

Bibliography
Ref. NK 1390 B9 1998		50 Products: Innovation in Design and Materials by Mel Byars
TS 171 H345 2004		Becoming a Product Designer by Bruce Hannah
Ref. NK 1309 M36 1998		Book of 20th Century Design by Catherine McDermott
N 40 A78 C66 1990		Contemporary Designers
N 6490 C66 1991		Contemporary Masterworks
Ref. NK 1370 B93 2004		The Design Encyclopedia by Mel Byars
Ref. TS 171 C85 2004		Design Secrets: Products 2
Ref. N34 W34 1992		Glossary of Art Architecture & Design Since 1945
TS 171.6 P765 2003		Graphis Product Design 3
on order		History of Modern Design by David Raizman
Ref. NK 1390 H44 1993		Landmarks of Twentieth-Century Design: An Illustrated Handbook
TS 171 T35 1996		The Look of the Century by Michael Tambini
NK1165 L53 2003		Universal Principles of Design by Lidwell, Holden & Butler
Ref. NK 1404 U8 2001		US Design 1975 - 2000
TT 505 A1 S74 1996		Who's Who in Fashion by Anne Stegemeyer

Websites of Interest
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