Rowena Reed Kostellow, was a design educator at the Pratt Institute. Her and her husband pioneered a comprehensive program in industrial design. This book is part history, part biography, and part instructional of Mrs. Kostellow life and design process.

People like Mrs. Kostellow amaze me. The live in a world of aesthetics. They find the beauty in things as the utmost importance. They can spend all day analyzing the particulars of a bend of wire, and only quit because they’re too tired to continue.

I found this book entertaining from a history aspect, inspirational from a biography aspect, and educational from a instructional aspect. You only read about half of this book. The rest is a series of projects to perform in analyzing objects in the third dimension. There’s plenty in this book to take away. There’s also hours of activities to be performed and reviewed. Whether or not you’re working in three dimensional design, this book still provides valuable lessons and exercises in design thinking.