📚 Industrial Design

Books with industrial design on their catalogue record, first published between 1930 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject industrial design in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 4,893 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Design Thinking Research	Hasso Plattner	2012	24
	DIA yearbook	Design and Industries Association.	1952	19
	The Psychology of Everyday Things	Donald A. Norman	1988	16
	Art and industry	Herbert Edward Read	1934	13
	Design for the real world	Victor Papanek	1971	11
	Industrial Design	Jim Lesko	1998	10
	Technology	R. Thomas Wright	2000	10
	Industriedesign A - Z	Charlotte Fiell	2000	10
	The nature and art of workmanship	David Pye	1968	9
	Product Design	Mike Baxter	1995	9
	Human Factors Methods for Design	Christopher P. Nemeth	2003	9
	Ergonomics for beginners	Jan Dul	1993	8
	Complete guide to size specification and technical design	Paula J. Myers-McDevitt	2003	8
	Human engineering guide for equipment designers	Wesley E. Woodson	1954	7
	Designing for people	Henry Dreyfuss	1955	7
	Design for the Read World	Victor J. Papanek	1972	7
	Designing Pleasurable Products	Patrick W. Jordan	2000	7
	User Friendly	Cliff Kuang	2019	7
	Horizons	Norman Bel Geddes	1930	6
	Industrial design	Raymond Loewy	1979	6
	Corporate identity	Wally Olins	1989	6
	The evolution of useful things	Henry Petroski	1992	6
	Emotional Design	Donald A. Norman	2003	6
	Design Management	Kathryn Best	2006	6
	Frame Innovation	Kees Dorst	2015	6
	Design, When Everybody Designs	Ezio Manzini	2015	6
	How to Speak Machine	John Maeda	2019	6
	Il disegno del prodotto industriale	Vittorio Gregotti	1982	5
	Art Deco	Eva Weber	1989	5
	Designing With Color	Susan Berry	1991	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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