Recommended Reading List

Pandemic Lockdown recommendations

Below are some podcasts, books and links to videos that I’ve found interesting as a designer, small business owner and ceramicist. 

PODCASTS

• 99% invisible - radiotopia - always dives into totally different topics - mind opening in regards to breadth of design and how it reaches into every day life in almost every way imaginable.

• Material Matters by Grant Gibson – interviews with Edmund de Waal, Kate Malone amongst others by the former editor of Crafts council 

• Courier Weekly – this is more a business based podcast. 

• On Design by Justyna Green https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/on-design-with-justyna-green/id1436446033

• EXPSN- more about experiential design, conceptual areas of practice,  the discussions are lead by innovators and designers from across the world. I have access to it through a free app called Crowdcast

MISC ONLINE RESOURCES



Glazes:

http://digitalfire.com/about.php

https://glazy.org/

Art of Abstract series: https://www.dezeen.com/2020/04/30/netflix-abstract-the-art-of-design-series-watch-free/

Ceramic Review Master Classes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_hqgDWYKhcH3D3snAvJ7WQ

School of Life: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7IcJI8PUf5Z3zKxnZvTBog

Do Wales: https://www.thedolectures.com

https://www.instituteofmaking.org.uk/

https://www.ceramicreview.com/category/articles/

https://www.ceramicmaterialsworkshop.com/ - great scientific insight into clays and glazes

https://www.delfinafoundation.com/programmes/the-politics-of-food/

https://www.thedesigntrust.co.uk/ 

https://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/

https://www.dezeen.com/

https://www.craftpotters.com/

BOOKS

• The Potters Dictionary of Materials and Techniques (Frank & Janet Hammer) 

• The Unknown Craftsman (Soetsu Yanagi, Translation by Bernard Leach)

• The Beauty of Everyday things (Soetsu Yanagi, translation by Michael Brase) 

• The Craftsman (Richard Sennett)

• Together (Richardd Sennett)

• In Praise of Shadows (Junichi Tanizaki)

• The Poetics of Space (Gaston Bachelard)

• DO Purpose (David Hieatt)

• Developing Glazes (Greg Daly)

• Natural Glazes, Collecting and making (Miranda Forrest)

• Why Materials Matter; Responsible Design for a Better World (Seetal Solanki)

• Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future by Kate Franklin, Caroline Till

• Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus

• The Craft of the Potter by Michael Casson

• Invention of Craft by Glenn Adamson

• The Culture of Craft by Peter Dormer

• A Potter’s Book by Bernard Leach

• Porcelain and Bone China by Sasha Wardell

• Clay and Glazes for the Potter by Daniel Rhodes 

• Home is where the heart is by Ilse Crawford

• The White Road by Edmund De Waal

• 20th Century Ceramics by Edmund De Waal

• The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew Crawford

• Two Japanese Women Ceramists in Brazil: Identity, Culture and Representation, Journal of International and Advanced Japanese Studies by Granja Pereira de Morais

• The Teabowl: East & West by Bonnie Kemske

• New Wave Clay by Tom Morris

• A Woman in Your Own Right: Assertiveness and You by Anne Dickson

• The Chimp Paradox. The Acclaimed Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness. Prof Steve Peters.

• The Creative Entrepreneur by Lisa Sonora Beam

• Dream Plan Do’ planner journal by Patricia van den Akker of The Design Trust

PHD PAPERS

Topographies of the Obsolete by Neil Brownsword; http://topographies.khib.no/media/3064620/site-reflections.pdf

Evoking Intimacy: Touch and the Thoughtful Body in Sculptural Ceramics' by Bonnie Kemske