Design Feast’s Makers Series—117th Interview: Design Leader Adam Kallish Ruminates about a Seminal Book that Remains Timely but Stuck in Obscurity—“Design Methods” by John Christopher Jones

Penned by John Christopher Jones, an Industrial Designer and Educator, “Design Methods” is a design-related book that I remain enamored of—especially curious about its never rising in awareness throughout the community of designers. Here, one of its top admirers, Adam Kallish, reasons how this proved to be the result.

When, how, where did you discover the book “Design Methods” (1970) by John Christopher Jones?

It was in 1986. I was a Bauhaus-trained designer and in graduate school at Rhode Island ...