Shanghai and Industrial Design

Taiwanese industrial designer Carl Liu created a book that contains a lot of hand drawn sketches and showcasing his HP PDA design project through the whole design process,from the initial design sketches until manufacturing. This is a must have book, especially for students who want to be inspired and motivated by this highly talented designer, who worked for Astro Studios and Motorola.

I bought this book in 2005 and I still peek into it to learn how his sketches communicate so well. It’s bilingual (English & Chinese). This book is so unique and very enjoyable to read. He writes about his design philosophy and explains a general design process (useful for first year students), but the most interesting part is the collection of his amazing sketch work (ideation sketches,concept sketches, storyboards and exploded views) with additional comments. His visual communication skills are superb.. I have never seen such strong sketch skills before. So i think it’s a must read for designers who want to improve their sketching abilities, cause looking to his work is certainly educational..at least to me. I believe that I have improved my sketching skills after purchasing this book, cause it motivated me to sketch a lot.

Please read a discussion about Carl Liu and his book and order the book if you are interested.