Thinking through Graphic Design History

Challenging the canon

Aggie Toppins (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-32721-4 (ISBN)

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Graphic design has a paradoxical relationship to history. While it claims to promote originality and innovation - ideas that emphasize the new and unique - design practice is deeply embedded in previous ideals. Too often, design students encounter the past in brief visual impressions which seduce them to imitate form rather than engage with historical contexts. Even though it has claimed to be objective and even comprehensive, graphic design history has focused largely on individual careers and Eurocentric achievements.

Yet the past swells with untapped potential. Graphic design history can serve the field of today and tomorrow, but its narratives require updates. History, like design, is always changing — and like design, history is driven by present-day questions. This book shows how students and practicing designers can enrich their work by thinking historically about design. With thoughtful analyses, stimulating creative prompts, inspiring case studies, and perspectives from designers all over the world, this book challenges our traditional understanding of graphic design history, and the very notion of the design canon, offering ways to shape socially engaged, critical practices.

Aggie Toppins is an Associate Professor and Chair of Design at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. She writes and practices design at the intersection of critical histories,social justice,and studio-based making.

Introduction

Section 1 Design and History: Compatible Forms of Inquiry
1 Historiography
2 Methods
3 Time

Section 2 Design and Appropriation: History as Reference
4 Intertexuality
5 Redemption
6 Heritage
7 Nostalgia
8 Hauntology

Section 3 Design and New Narratives: History and Its Subjects
9 Problematizing the Canon
10 Broadening the Canon
11 Dismantling the Canon

Section 4 Design and World-building: History and the Future
12 Visualizing Alternatives
13 Speculative Fictions
14 Artificiality and Interventions

Conclusion
Glossary
References

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.2.2025
Zusatzinfo	150 colour illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	189 x 246 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Grafik / Design
ISBN-10	1-350-32721-2 / 1350327212
ISBN-13	978-1-350-32721-4 / 9781350327214
Zustand	Neuware