Designing history : documents and the design imperative to immutability / Chris Lee.

Main entry:

Lee, Chris (Graphic designer), author.

Title & Author:

Designing history : documents and the design imperative to immutability / Chris Lee.

Publication:

[Eindhoven, The Netherlands] : Set Margins', [2025]

Description:

xi, 176 pages: illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
"The [2022] print edition of this book is published by Onomatopee (Eindhoven, NL)"--Colophon.
"Set Margins' ; #37."
Editors, Benjamin Tiven and Rachel Valinsky.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-176).

Summary:

"Designing History returns as an expanded edition of Immutable (2022) with a new essay that reframes our understanding of graphic design history and prompts a reconsideration of its potential histories. In this edition, Chris Lee challenges the conventional narratives of "graphic design"--shaped as such by a canonical "history" of celebrated designer/auteurs and iconic artifacts driven by an imperative to publicity. Instead, Lee directs our gaze toward "history," where the bureaucratic document and its agents emerge as central players in graphic design's historical arc, driven by an imperative to immutability. Yet this is not a simple affirmation of history. Lee uses it as a lens to name and challenge the practices and techniques that make persistent the power of administration. In its conclusion, the book suggests the possibility of "design", an alternative path to inquiry, inspired by Laura Nadler's call to "study up"--to study and experiment with ways of antagonizing the bureaucratic imperatives of states and corporations. Engaging and incisive, Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability encourages designers and readers alike to confront the histories we inherit as contingent and contestable."--Back cover.

ISBN:

9789083404103 (paperback)
9083404102 (paperback)

Subject:

Graphic design (Typography) History.
Graphic design (Typography) Political aspects.
Arts graphiques Histoire.
Arts graphiques Aspect politique.
Graphic design (Typography)

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Tiven, Benjamin, 1978- editor.
Valinsky, Rachel, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320897
Call No.: 320897
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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