Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades

Originally published in 1946, this book is based on a series of broadcast talks on design. Led by an engineer, an artist and critic of architecture and industrial design, the discussions focussed on the problems that were involved by a general...

Originally published in 1944, The Missing Technician shows how Industrial Design must begin at the very first stages of planning a product. The procedure of a design research committee is outlined – a type of practical co-ordination of the work of...

'An important book, brimming with insight.' Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer 'Material is generous, wise, fascinating and fundamentally humane.' Dan Richards, author of Outpost Throwing a pot. Building a bench. Sewing clothes. Creating...

Originally published in 1945, Plastics and Industrial Design is a non-technical work of reference for manufacturers and designers who, after the Second World War were beginning to realize the possibilities that manufacturing with Plastics could bring...