Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability (Set Margins, 37) - Softcover

Lee, Chris

 
9789083404103: Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability (Set Margins, 37)
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ISBN 10: 9083404102 ISBN 13: 9789083404103
Verlag: Set Margins' publications, 2025

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On graphic design's complicity in power and what can be done to transform the field

Moving beyond the usual forms endemic to the graphic design canon, Designing History studies bureaucratic instruments such as money, passports, certificates, property deeds and more. Such documents produce identity, assign ownership and ascribe value. They stabilize claims, memory and knowledge that would otherwise be vulnerable to contestation or obliteration. Despite their apparent banality, such documents are perhaps graphic design’s most profoundly consequential forms. This book is the revised edition of Immutable: Designing History (2022). It includes an extended essay that contextualizes the project as one concerned primarily with prompting a remapping of graphic design’s historical and practical assumptions.
Chris Lee is a graphic designer and educator based in Brooklyn. His practice explores graphic design's entanglement with capitalism and colonialism through the genre of the document. He is Assistant Professor in the Undergraduate Communications Design Department at Pratt Institute.

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Moving beyond the usual genres of form in graphic design’s canonical history, ‘Designing History’ proposes a model centred on bureaucratic instruments of identity, ownership, value, and permission: money, passports, certificates, property deeds, etc. It considers the implications of a design history of the document, where the designer shifts from being a practitioner of conventional design histories to become subject and agency of bureaucratic authority. The book is a revised edition of ‘Immutable: Designing History’ (2022) and includes an extended essay that contextualizes the project as a remapping of graphic design’s historical, pedagogical, and practical assumptions.

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Verlag
Set Margins' publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9083404102
ISBN 13 
9789083404103
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
176
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