Bibliography of 13 books for essay and their relevence

Lewis, H. and Gertsakis, J. (2001) Design and Environment: a Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods. Sheffield, Greenleaf (745.2)

This book is a straightforward practical resource and guidelines for designer who want to create greener and less environmentally damaging products. This book is basically a back up of how harmful some materials and chemicals can be to the environment without anyone even knowing about it. It helps one look at pieces of designs more critically in terms of how 'green' they are.


McDonough, W. and Braugart, M. (2002) Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. New York, North Point Press. (745.2)

This book is my main resource in which I base my essay on. Therefore it probably has the highest relevance to this essay than any other books in this bibliography. I am using all these other books to basically back up the cradle to cradle theory proposed in this book. and also to back up their other proposed design theory which is supposedly the one all designs are based on at the moment. Therefore , this book is more of a base

Papanek, V. (2nd edition 1984) Design for the Real World:Human Ecology and Social Change. London, Thames and Hudson. (745.4)

Also another really important book for this essay. Papanek is one of the first people to have written about how our method of design has been shaped by industrial revolution and how it lacked the hindsight of the effect the industry has on the environment.


Chapman, J. and Gant, N. (2007) Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories: A Collection of Sustainable Design Essays. London, Earthscan Publications Ltd. (745.2)

This book contains differen journals on design, the environment and sustainability and it is a very useful book to reference to for informed opinion on sustainability.


Dougherty, B (2008) Green Graphic Design. New York. Allworth Press



Shedroff, N (2009) Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable. New York, Rosenfeld Media.

This book was mainly written about product design and its impact on the environment but I thought that a lot of the principles and observations made in this book can be applied to Graphic Design as well. the book also provides examples of unsustainable design solutions which will back up the 'design to grave theory.


Fuad-Luke, A. (2009) Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World. London, Earthscane Publications.

Hawken.P, (2008) Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. New York, Back Bay Books.

Berman, D.B (2008) Do Good Design: How Design Can Change our World: How Visual Communicators Can Save the World. California, Peachpit Press.

Roberts, L. (2006) An Introduction to Ethics in Graphic Design. West Sussex, AVA Publishing.

Shedroff, N (2009) Design is the problem: The Future of design mist be Sustainable. New York. Rosenfeld Media.

Fry, T (2008) Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics & New Practice. Basingstoke, BERG.

Stephens, S. (2009) The Big Book of Green Design. London, Harper Collins Publishers

Dougherty, B (2008) Green Graphic Design. New York. Allworth Press