Everyday Engineering: What Engineers See

by IDEO, Andrew K. Burroughs

World-renowned design and innovation firm IDEO uses first-hand observations to inform and inspire its work. As it did with the groundbreaking observational primer Thoughtless Acts?, IDEO once again brings its instructive methods tobear on the world around us, this time with an eye toward the inherent but unheralded presence of modern engineering. By observing the built environment we walk through every daythe often-overlooked details of buildings and roads, the joinings and interfaces of our infrastructurewe can learn to see the world as engineers do, and adapt this perspective to critical thinking. Through simple pictures of how objects and environments behave over time, Everyday Engineering invites anyone in creative fields, business, and design to see the world through IDEO's eyes.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Design

204 pages, Hardcover

First published September 6, 2007

Reviews

[Grace · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOVE the way this book is laid out. It's mostly art, but it's also engineering. There is a page where it describes what an engineer would see, then shows you through a bunch of pages of artistically taken pictures. Gorgeous and fits in the palm of your hand.

[Tomislav · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Everyday Engineering” by IDEO’s Andrew Burroughs is a nice and inspiring book which looks like it follows Jane Fulton Suri’s “Thoughtless Acts”, The book observes everyday things with designer+engineer eyes.

[Valentino · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yes this book is more of a reference then actual book, but it truly give insight to your surroundings. The book becomes more relevant to you when you live in: industrial town, city, or urban setting. All in all, if you like design or engineering this is a nice book to reflect to or recall from.

[Dale · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a small-format book consisting of brief essays followed by pages of photographs that supposedly illustrate the points made in the essay. It ought to have been interesting. It wasn't.