Product Design, Technology, and Social Change: A Short Cultural History

Examines the relationship between products, consumption, sustainability, politics and social movements. This ’pocket history’ surveys product design from the agricultural revolution and the birth of cities, through industrialisation, and a digital design revolution. 58 b&w illus.

Read the Foreword by Don A. Norman here

Read ’Product Design and Its Impact’ from Part 1: Product Design in Society: An Introduction here

Laura Scherling is a designer, researcher, and educator. She is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University in New York City.