Reading list for industrial designers?

Free technical magazines that discuss new uses for materials. - Nancy Perkins Anything but design magazines and books! In my family of industrial designers, that can be post-structuralist philosophy, cultural theory, fashion magazines or good fiction.

Reading should go beyond books. Explore nightclubs, watch TV, work out and go to museums regularly. - Laurene Leon Raising Your Spirited Child offers good insight into the reasons for certain behaviors.

Visual references are a must: ID Magazine - not much inspiration anymore, Car Styling - still good, HOW, Wired, interior magazines. More.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.