Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability
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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 stabilise 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 contextualises the project as one… Read more
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 stabilise 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 contextualises the project as one concerned primarily with prompting a remapping of graphic design's historical and practical assumptions.
Designer: Chris Lee Size: 127x196mm Pages: 126 Publication: 2024 Binding: Softbound book
Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability
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