Thomas Heatherwick: Making (2025)

Featuring sixteen new projects and fresh photography, this updated and revised book remains the definitive publication on the internationally acclaimed designer Thomas Heatherwick. How do you create a car that cleans the air? Construct a building that helps you heal? Humanize space to improve life on earth? Turn a paper mill into a gin distillery? Let every country in the Olympic Games take part in making and lighting the Olympic Cauldron? Design a building using an electron microscope? Produce a new bus for London that uses less fuel? Make someone eat your business card? Making is an extraordinary compendium of the work of Thomas Heatherwick and his studio since its founding 30 years ago. Fully updated and revised, and now in its third edition, this is the definitive publication on one of the world’s most exceptional designers.

With more than 600 pages, 116 projects and hundreds of photographs, drawings and sketches, this essential monograph will be an inspirational resource for designers, makers and curious minds.