Design culture reading list

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  So you want a design job? By Flora MacLeod 2026
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  The best promotion advice By Andrew Graham-Yooll 2026
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  Vacuum casting step by step guide By Zaid McAllister 2026
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  Four layers of personal identity By Kelly 2026
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  Redefining sustainable design By Elodie Delassus 2025
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  REI archive colors By Amanda Russell 2025
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  The value of design research By Joseph Lindley 2025
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  Sheet metal design guide By Chris Barton 2025
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  Apple's audio lab By Billy Steele 2025
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  Business insights that prove the value of design By Joe Smiley 2025
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  Supporting women in STEM By Tracy Sharp 2025
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  Turning consumer insights into hit products By Mark Barrocas 2025
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  Inclusive by Design, not determination By Bryce Johnson 2025
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  Inside the Judging Room By Tracy Sharp 2025
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  User onboarding flow By Ramli John 2025
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  The myth of originality By Luke Scheybeler 2025
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  Creative portoflio best practices By Daniel Spielberger 2025
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  A debate: AI 2027 By Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, Romeo Dean 2025
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  Visual aesthetics for Industrial Design By Jonathan Thai 2025
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  Zapier brand guidelines example By Zapier 2025
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  Etsy’s Product Revolution By Michael R. Yap 2025
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  10 tips to create a portolio By Young Designers India 2024
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  Leading innovation at Xiaomi By Lu Chen 2024
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  3 days in China By Andrés Fraga, Sara Berkai, Jon Marshall 2024
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  How surface continuity affects design aesthetics By Unknown 2024
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  Embracing ambiguity By NewDesign 2024
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  Tips for robust surface modelling in Solidworks By Andrew Jackson 2024
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  Research as leisure By Celine Nguyen 2024
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  Software as lifestyle branding By Daisy Alioto 2024
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  Visual guide to product management By John Cutler 2024
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  Building a design studio from scratch By Reianna Shakil 2024
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  Buckminster Fuller architecture By Hannah Martin and Katherine McLaughlin 2024
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  Memory machines By Anastasiia Fedorova, Kotomi Tanaka, Betuel Benitez 2024
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  PDD take on smart homes By Jamie Buckley 2023
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  The perfect colour palette By Molly Hellmuth 2023
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  Why Sonos added 93 screws By Mark Wilson 2023
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  Getting noticed at degree shows By Harry Chapman and Katie-May Boyd 2023
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  Teaching using agility and evidence By Hilary Collins 2023
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  A model for sustainable living By Hettie O’Brien 2023
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  The overconsumption mindset By Dan Hastings-Narayanin, Emily Rhodes, and Jasmin Krammer 2023
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  Design for planet knowledge hub By Design Council 2023
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  Teaching emerging tech for UX By Fabien Girardin 2023
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  Building an extension of your mind By Anne-Laure Le Cunff 2023
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  Futuremaker's toolkit By Sitra (The Finnish Innovation Fund) 2023
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  Shaped by Water By Google Design Studio & Lachlan Turczan 2023
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  Design for longevity By Sheng-Hung Lee 2023
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  Maximising use of LLM's By Roger Oriol 2023
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  Right to repair legislation By World Economic Forum 2023
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  Managing moonshot innovation By Alison Beard 2023
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  Xiaomi packaging design philosophy By Lu Chen 2023
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  Tech for Good By Ming Tan 2023
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  Algorythmic Computer Aided Design By Claire L. Evans 2023
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  Creating climate concious branding By Maryam Atta 2023
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  Institutional memory for research projects By Ryan Nolan 2023
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  Pitch deck structure & advice By Shriya Bhattacharya 2023
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  Q&A with Astro Teller By Rani Chor 2023
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  Interactive design in 2023 By Abbey Bamford 2023
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  Joseph Joseph 20 year retrospective By The Times 2023
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  Companies churning through young workers By Alex Christian 2023
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  Challenges of implimenting inteligent automation By Arturo Garcia 2023
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  Waste not want not: sewage By Lina Zeldovich 2023
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  Applied ethnographic co-creation workshops By Sheng-Hung Lee 2022
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  Enduring value of analogue By Bartleby 2022
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  Carbon banks via digital assets By Space10 2022
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  Lessons from a project where everyone is a leader By Diane Osgood and Mary Elizabeth Sheehan 2022
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  Otrivin air lab workshops By ecoLogicStudio & Otrivin 2022
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  The making of microsoft adaptive accessories By Tracy Jones 2022
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  What is strategy By Fadi Dada 2022
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  Predictors of upcycling in the west By Kyungeun Sung 2022
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  The scale of what we are facing is underestimated By Indy Johar 2022
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  Jony Ive on life after Apple By Elisa Lipsky-Karasz 2022
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  Microsoft VP of HR on interview Q's By Chris Williams 2022
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  Pollution killing plants By Amy Feldman 2022
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  Shrink it and pink it: gender bias in product design By Karen Korellis Reuther 2022
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  Dyson CMF: form follows function By Dyson 2022
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  EGGS: experimentation for public sector innovation By Hanna Buan Øfsti 2022
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  Robots: automating abundance By Packy McCormick 2022
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  Growing dev ecosystems By Nader Dabit 2022
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  The Googler trying to cut food waste By Debra Kahn 2022
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  T shirt store to hardware By David Pierce 2022
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  Designing a meaningful future By Clara Gaggero 2022
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  Unilever accessible deodorant By Katie Deighton 2022
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  Build successful products without feature creep By Maddie Wang 2022
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  Futurist prediction methods and accuracy By Dan Luu 2022
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  Innovation in lab space By Sheng-Hung Lee 2022
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  The worst rated streaming service By Peter Ramsey 2022
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  G3 fillet in Rhino By Aman Agrawal 2022
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  Designing a more inclusive future By Ksenya Samarskaya 2022
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  The art of thriving without competing By Phnam Bagley 2022
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  How snapchat and netflix break UX principles By Kumar Shubham 2022
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  The future is responsible innovation By Tim Cook 2022
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  Interview with James Melia (Blond) By This Design Life 2022
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  Projectors as future screens By Kevin C. Tofel 2022
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  Time to value' and product complexity By Oleg Yakubenkov 2022
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  Midjourney and DALLE2 to create unique concepts By Hamid Hassanzadeh 2022
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  Don't think to write, write to think By Herbert Lui 2022
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  Avoid ableist tropes By Shruti Rajkumar 2022
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  How Amazon consumed all of commerce By Shoshana Wodinsky 2022
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  Morrama path to B corp By Andy Trewin Hutt 2022
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  Sustainability & Consumer behaviour 2022 By Céline Fenech, Dr. Bryn Walton and Alan Majury 2022
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  Good mold design: plastic part checklist By Bruce Catoen 2022
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  Design leadership at MIT labs By Sheng-Hung Lee 2022
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  The DALL·E 2 Prompt Book By Guy Parsons 2022
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  How IBM revolutionised America with design By Joe Smiley 2022
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  James Dyson advice to the class of 2022 By James Dyson 2022
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  Firework packaging design By Rachel del Valle 2022
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  Presenting with gravity sketch By Gravity Sketch 2022
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  Layer's Benjamin Hubert By Adrian Madlener 2022
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  Gravity sketch + AR By Gravity Sketch 2022
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  Microsoft surface adaptive kit By Ewan Spence 2022
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  Optimising for feeling By The Browser Company 2022
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  Dear design industry By Russell Beard 2022
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  The inventor of the iphone has some thoughts By Evan Armstrong 2022
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  Writing for interfaces By Apple 2022
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  Philosophy for teams By Tim Wantland 2022
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  How to give impactful feedback By Zach Adams 2022
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  Apples self repair programme By Brian X. Chen 2022
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  Design tips for non-designers By Laurent Baumann 2022
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  The nest thermostat By Tony Fadell 2022
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  The Future of Interaction By Federico Casalegno 2022
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  IDEO and RepresentED By IDEO 2022
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  Onboarding By Ziyou Yan 2022
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  The power of prototyping By Steve Schwall 2022
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  Growth hacking startups with $0 By Denis Shatalin 2022
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  Distributed leadership is the future By Meredith Somers 2022
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  A developmental future and risk By Indy Johar 2022
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  Why I became a design leader By Brooke Bell 2022
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  Design out waste and learn from nature By Ellen MacArthur 2022
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  Biomimicry for smart home energy management By Chung-Ang University 2022
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  UI visual design 'rules' By Anthony Hobday 2022
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  10 Design Principles for a Better World By Morrama 2022
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  Joey Zeledon By Joey Zeledón 2022
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  Stories as a design process By Tim Wantland 2022
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  Green tech innovation sweet spots By Karlis Kanders and Laurie Smith 2021
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  Accessible by design By Microsoft 2021
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  Step by step to 1000 community members By Joseph Quan 2021
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  Beta design office flip flop By Mayku 2021
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  UOC: Design Tripos By UOC 2021
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  Things high performing teams do differently By Ron Friedman 2021
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  Letting go of ego By Luca Ponticelli 2021
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  Design declares toolkit By Design Declares 2021
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  The Evolving Legacy of Ken Garland’s First Things First Manifesto By Rick Poynor 2021
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  How FB designers gave emojis a voice By Rachel Kraus 2021
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  Rehearsing the future By Isabelle Olsson 2021
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  Designing for the unknown By Nick Foster 2021
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  Design philospophy at gravity sketch By Gravity Sketch 2021
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  The UK map of industrial design By Brad Harper 2021
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  digital gov usability By US GSA 2021
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  Dark patterns on the web By Sara Morrison 2021
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  How to think in questions not answers By Courtney Hohne 2021
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  Complete Guide to Vacuum Forming By Ansini Limited 2021
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  Nick Foster: everyday futures By Nick Foster 2021
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  Accelerating UK innovation post brexit By Jo Barnard 2021
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  Advice to graduates By Russell Beard 2021
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  Brief history of consumer culture By Kerryn Higgs 2021
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  Why is ID still a man's world? By Ti Chang 2021
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  Dissassembly map: enhance repairability By TU Delft 2021
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  Why do so many self driving cars look like toasters By Aarian Marshall 2020
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  Upstream innovation packaging guide By Ellen MacArthur 2020
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  Upstream innovation slidedeck By Ellen MacArthur 2020
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  Upstream innovation: packaging solution workshop By Ellen MacArthur 2020
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  How [not] to predict the future By Xer Phil Watson 2020
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  Thinking inside the box By Anne-Laure Le Cunff 2020
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  Tales from the other side of the recruiting table By Josh Shiau 2020
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  How upstarts tackle incumbents By Jon Kol 2020
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  Tips for design portfolio reviews By Kyle Harris 2020
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  Cultivating creativity By Mitchel Resnick 2020
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  Engaging in complexity By Google Design 2020
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  Controling 80 micron gaps in production By Lotus 2020
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  Unleashing radical creativity By Astro Teller 2020
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  SubD modelling in gravity sketch By Gravity Sketch 2019
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  Design guide for vacuum forming By Ben Dineen 2019
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  Jaguar clay modelling gallary By Jaguar 2019
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  ThisAbles IKEA project By CriticalAxis 2019
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  Quiet power of sound design By Jonathon Keats 2019
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  TMS: designing happy meal toys By Billy Langsworthy 2019
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  Fashion brand ending industry waste By Oliver Pickup 2019
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  How to write a pitch deck By Andy Trewin Hutt 2019
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  Regenerative supply networks design framework By Vitor de Souza, Jacqueline Bloemhof-Ruwaard, and Milton Borsato 2019
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  ID team at Meta By Design @ Meta 2019
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  The vegetable peeler that changed the world By Mark Wilson 2018
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  IDEO: build your creative confidence By Tom Kelley 2018
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  How to shape remarkable products By Scott Belsky 2018
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  Portfolios when you cant share your work By Tobias van Schneider 2018
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  Regenerative development for landscape sustainability By Leah V. Gibbons , Scott A. Cloutier, Paul J. Coseo and Ahmed Barakat 2018
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  Rise and fall of Sugru By Sam Shead 2018
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  Google Design By Google Design Team 2018
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  Percieved quality By Marcus Roffey 2018
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  Design at Meta By Meta 2018
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  Getting the most from a mentor By Vineet Chopra and Sanjay Saint 2017
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  Mike & Maaike (Google retrospective) By Mike Simonian and Maaike Evers 2017
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  How people work at Google X By Shana Lebowitz 2017
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  Apple packagig and forestry (2017) By Apple 2017
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  Mario Bellinis book review By Rohan Shivkumar 2017
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  Multiple loops design approach By Ana Mestre and Tim Cooper 2017
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  Clay in a high tech world By Dee-Ann Durbin 2017
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  Joseph Joseph's smart design ethos By Julia Platt Leonard 2017
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  Buckminster Fuller fly's eye dome By CB Moma 2017
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  Steve Jobs advertising strategy By Jeri Smith 2017
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  Towards a regenerative economy By Daniel Christian Wahl 2017
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  Transformative over sustaining innovation By Daniel Christian Wahl 2017
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  What makes things cool By Derek Thompson 2017
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  Joseph Joseph technicolour kitchen equiptment By Tia Douglas 2017
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  Leverage aesthetic trends By Bill Dorr 2017
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  Hiring process at Dyson By John Brandon 2016
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  Skin centric wearable prototyping By Madeline Gannon 2016
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  Tackle the monkey first By Astro Teller 2016
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  How to build the future By Sam Altman 2016
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  Design resilient consumer products By Anders Haug 2016
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  How buckminster fuller made a dome sound sensible By Diana Budds 2016
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  Durability of energy using products By Silvia Bobba, Fulvio Ardente and Fabrice Mathieux 2016
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  Advice for companies with less than 1 year of runway By Dalton Caldwell 2016
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  Cutting smooth holes in foam By David Neat 2016
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  Shaping styrofoam By David Neat 2016
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  Benjamin Hubert starting Layer By DesignDaily 2015
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  The inside story of the surface book By David Pierce 2015
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  Art student portfolio advice By Sarah Dawood 2015
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  IKEA's secret design lab By Jonathan Bell 2015
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  Future of aging By Gov UK 2015
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  Design for manufacturing course By Scott N. Miller 2014
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  Criticizing Criticism: Too Little and Too Much By Steven Heller 2014
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  Portfolios: gone in 60 seconds By Max Yoshimoto 2014
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  30 Best UX books By Charles L. Mauro 2014
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  Clay and tape Mustang By Liz Stinson 2014
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  Understanding the global energy crisis By Eugene D. Coyle and Richard A. Simmons 2014
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  Designing with tape at Ford By Ford 2014
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  The language of tape By Eric Gallina 2014
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  Chase's twitter gambit By Matt Taibbi 2013
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  Speculative everything By Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby 2013
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  Dancing with systems By Donella Meadows 2012
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  Designers take on ritual objects By Riya Patel 2012
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  What do prototypes prototype By Stephanie Houde 2012
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  Portfolio handbook By University of Cincinnati 2012
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  Gary Hamel on the future of management By Gary Hamel 2011
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  Practical guide to generative art By Matt Pearson 2011
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  Car clay modelling tutorials By Daniel Berkemeyer 2009
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  Periodic table of form By Core Jr 2009
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  Designing durable consumer goods By Oksana Mont 2008
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  Design Icons By Dyson 2005
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  Experience prototyping By Marion Buchenau and Jane Fulton Suri 2000
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  The tenth pioneer By Martha Scotford and Cipe Pineles 1995
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  How to get a design job By Anson Cheung 1993
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  Cult of the ugly By Steven Heller 1993
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  Retrospective futurism: tools for thought By Howard Rheingold 1981
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  The layered vision thing By Mike Mills 1905
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  People amplifiers' By Winchell Chung 1905
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  What has writing got to do with design By Anne Burdick 1905