Reading List
USEFUL BOOKS TO READ
Engineering
Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Engineering Knight-errant by Adrian Vaughn
Food
To help with Coursework: Design and Technology: Food Technology Nelson Thornes
Manual of Nutrition
The Shape we`re in by Sarah Bosely.
Nutrition for Dummies by Nigel Denby
Product Design
To help with Coursework:
Design and Technology: Product Design Nelson Thornes
CGP GCSE D&T product Design AQA Specification - The Revision Guide
Essentials GCSE Design and technology Product Design Revision
Other Reading Material
Designing Design by Kenya Hara
Architecture: Form, Space, & Order by Francis D. K. Ching.
Presentation Techniques by Dick Powell.
Design Secrets: Products 1 and 2 : 50 Real-Life Product Design Projects Uncovered by Lynn Haller and Cheryl Dangel Cullen, and edited by Industrial Designers Society of America.
Process: 50 Product Designs from Concept to Manufacture by Jennifer Hudson.
Textiles
Making Marks: And the Design of Timney Fowler by Sue Timney, Pointed Leaf Press, 2010
Machine Stitch: Perspectives by Alice Kettle and Jane McKeating, A+C Black Publishers, 2010
Drawn to Stitch by Gwen Hedley, Batsford, 2010
Textiles Designers at the Cutting Edge by Bradley Quinn, Lawrence king, 2009
Trashformations: Recycled Materials in Contemporary American Art and Design by Lloyd E. Herman, University of Washington Press, 1998
USEFUL *DEPARTMENT* LINKS
www.matweb.com (This is a Materials database.)
www.sustainability.com (A range of case studies that examine issues within business is available on this site
www.towards-sustainability.co.uk (This site takes a closer look at a variety of sustainable issues.
www.bbc.co.uk/food/
www.technologystudent.com (an in depth look at product designing and the process/es involved)
www.ftmlondon.org/exhibitions/detail/?ID=61
www.alicekettle.com
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/maurizio_anzeri.htm?section_name=photography
www.conserveindia.org/about-team.html
www.denisestanton.co.uk
www.tsai-yoshikawa.com/hsiao-chi_tsai/about
www.rosiejames.com
www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aoa/s/sokari_douglas_camp,_big_masqu.aspx