Reading List
I love to read. I’m forever curious about new industries, technologies and ideas. Reading affords me the opportunity to learn so many new things, many that help me in my work as a designer, but far more that simply broaden my view of the world.
Here is a collection of my favourite books from the past few years.
Cradle to Cradle. Remaking the Way We Make Things
The Headspace Guide to Mindfulness & Meditation
Factfulness
The Virgin Banker
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
2018
The IKEA Edge
Design in Frankfurt
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
Buddhist Boot Camp
Creative Selection
The Design of Everyday Things
Understanding Industrial Design
Radical Focus
Hit Refresh
Measure What Matters
Insanely Great
Twin Ambitions
Unbelievable
The China Study
Relationship Marketing
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
Letter from Birmingham Jail
To Infinity and Beyond!: The story of Pixar Animation Studios
To Pixar and Beyond
The Essence of Shinto: Japan’s Spiritual Heart
A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind
The Book of Tea
Autobiography of a Yogi
Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible
2017
Less but Better
Crossing the Chasm
Ikigai
Do Lead
Soldier Spy
Call for the Dead
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Finding My Virginity
Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
The Dip
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
App Development with Swift
The Audacity of Hope
Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance
Tribes
Designing for Emotion
The Personal MBA
Let My People Go Surfing
Into The Wild
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type works
In Progress
Hello, I am Erik
Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams
Thoughts on Design
The Checklist Manifesto
Finding Ultra
Being Mortal
The Brain: The Story of You
When Breath Becomes Air
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
How to Make a Spaceship
Deep Work
Gliding: From Passenger to Pilot
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Gut
2016
Reach for the Skies
Turn the Ship Around
Shoe Dog
Confessions of an Advertising Man
Atmosphere of Hope
Pretty Much Everything
Human Universe
The Technological Singularity
Chernobyl Prayer
Creativity, Inc.
The Laws of Simplicity
A Fine Line: How design strategies are shaping the future of business
Change by Design
Cabin Porn
Matt West