Books
Lewis Mumford, From Handicraft to Machine Production in Art and Technics
Norman Potter, “Designer as Artisan” in What is a designer: things . places . messages
Malcolm McCullough, Abstracting Craft
Mario Carpo, The Alphabet and the Algorithm
Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things
Carma Gorman (ed.), Industrial Design Reader
Daniel Schodek et al., Digital Design and Manufacturing: CAD/CAM Applications in Architecture and Design
Karl Ulrich and Steven Eppinger, Product Design and Development, 5th ed. (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2011)
Daniel E. Whitney, Stapler Tutorial in Mechanical Assemblies: Their Design, Manufacture, and Role in Product Development (Oxford University Press, USA, 2004).
Papers
Sass et al, Materializing a Design with Plywood
Sass, “Synthesis of design production with integrated digital fabrication”
Schmitt & Seitinger, Plywood Punk- A Holistic Approach to Designing Animated Artifacts
Kuznetsov & Paulos, Rise of the Expert Amateur – DIY Projects, Communities, and Cultures
Cornucopia: The Concept of Digital Gastronomy. Amit Zoran, Marcelo Coelho, Leonardo Journal Volume 44.5 (2011)
“Forms that change due to new Processes Processes that change due to new Forms.” Dimitris Papanikolaou
Articles
Don’t Mock the Artisanal-Pickle Makers, Adam Davidson, New York Times (related article and audio from NPR)
Making It in America, Adam Davidson, The Atlantic
In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits, Chris Anderson, Wired
Atoms Are Not Bits; Wired Is Not A Business Magazine, Joel Johnson, Gizmodo
I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave, Mac McClelland, Mother Jones
MAKE’s Exclusive Interview with Andrew (bunnie) Huang – The End of Chumby, New Adventures
A third industrial revolution, a special report from the Economist:
- Factories and jobs: Back to making stuff
- Comparative advantage: The boomerang effect
- Materials: Forging ahead
- Additive manufacturing: Solid print
- Layer by layer: How 3D printers work
- Collaborative manufacturing: All together now
- Automation: Making the future
Talks
Mike Kuniavsky, Lean hardware startups: elements of a ubiquitous computing innovation ecosystem
Bunnie Huang, Why the Best Days of Open Hardware are Yet to Come [slides]
Janne Kyttänen, Freedom of Creation PechaKucha
Marco Arment, The App Economy on Planet Money