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About this book
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.
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.
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Yes, you can access Thinking through Graphic Design History by Aggie Toppins in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Design & Design History & Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- SECTION 1 Design and History: Compatible Forms of Inquiry
- SECTION 2 Design and Appropriation: History as Reference
- SECTION 3 Design and New Narratives: History and its Subjects
- SECTION 4 Design and World-Building: History and the Future
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- eCopyright