DeTnk’s Must Read Book of the Month

11th November ’09

This month, we highly recommend picking up a copy of ‘Thinking: Objects - Contemporary Approaches to Product Design’ by Tim Parsons.

This new book is an innovative, wide-ranging guide to great product design geared particularly towards students, graduates, and practicing designers. The book looks at the many approaches designers take to their work and discusses their different motivations. It reveals how designers can learn to read the signals an object sends, interpret meaning, discover historical context and use those messages in their own product designs.

The author, Tim Parsons, is a product designer, writer and lecturer on design. His projects examine notions of familiarity, functionality and the quality of materials and processes by mixing influences from craft and industrial design. ‘Thinking: Objects’ is Parsons first book, and it provides a useful reference tool for all readers interested in understanding and navigating the contemporary design industry.

Visit the Detnk Bookstore to get your copy now.