The Industrial Design Reader

An anthology tracing the ideas, movements and milestones of industrial design from 1850 to today, in the words of its makers and critics. A documentary backbone for understanding how design Outcomes came to be what they are. Edited by design historian Carma Gorman and published by Allworth Press in 2003, the anthology gathers around sixty texts, primary sources written by designers, critics, historians and curators, tracing industrial design and mass production from 1850 to the present. Contributors range from William Morris to Henry Dreyfuss to Victor Papanek, combining manifestos, lectures and reports from the earliest design workshops into what was, at the time, the first anthology to focus specifically on the history of industrial design.