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Banham, Reyner. Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, Architectural Press, London, 1960.
An important corrective to Pevsner’s Pioneers of Modern Design, (1936) broadening to include Futurism and Expressionism in the Modern Movement.


Dennis, P. Doordan. Design History: an Anthology MIT Press, Cambridge Mass. 1995.
A useful collection of a variety of approaches to the subject drawn from the journal Design Issues.




 
Forty, Adrian. Objects of Desire Design and Society since 1950, Thames and Hudson, London, 1986.
A crucial text that places design in a social and economic context.


 Giedion, Siegfried. Mechanization takes Command, A contribution to anonymous history, Oxford University Press, 1948.
One of the most formative texts in Design History, analysing the place of technology on anonymous design. 





 Meikle, Jeffrey. American Plastic, a Cultural History, Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, 1995. 
A rich, contextualised study of one material and its impact on design change.




 Design Criticism 
Poynor, Rick. Design without Boundaries: visual communication in transition Booth-Clibborn Editions, London 1998. An interesting anthology on graphic design.



 Margolin, Victor & Buchanan, Richard. The Idea of Design MIT Press Cambridge, Mass., 1995. 
A collection of essays from the design journal Design Issues exploring the meaning of products, design theory and design and culture. 




 Meredith Davis, Series Ed. Design Research Bibliographies Chicago: American Center for Design and the Graphic Design Education Association, 1997


These annotated bibliographies identify resources in design planning, cognition and emotion, cultural studies, education and learning theory, and interaction and new media design that shape current thinking in design practice and education.



 Minick, Scott and Ping, Jiao. Chinese Graphic Design in the Twentieth Century, 1870-1920. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990.



 "Objects of Desire: Design and Society Since 1750," by Adrian Forty. 
An indispensable critical survey that places design objects into historical context.



 SMLXL, by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau. 
Koolhaas and Mau and their respective studios have established an anti-monument to “good design.” This book is one of the great public spaces of the last decade

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