Cover -- The Shape of Things A Philosophy of Design -- Imprint Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- About the Word Design -- Form and Material -- War and the State of Things -- About Forms and Formulae -- The Designer's Way of Seeing -- The Factory -- The Lever Strikes Back -- Shelters, Screens and Tents -- Design: Obstacle for/to the Removal of Obstacles -- Why Do Typewriters Go 'Click'? -- The Ethics of Industrial Design? -- Design as Theology -- Wittgenstein's Architecture -- Bare Walls -- With As Many Holes As a Swiss Cheese -- The Non-Thing 1 -- The Non-Thing 2 -- Carpets -- Pots -- Shamans and Dancers with Masks -- The Submarine -- Wheels -- Biographical Note.