{"product_id":"designing-history-documents-and-the-design-imperative-to-immutability","title":"Designing History, Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMoving beyond the familiar genres that dominate the canonical history of graphic design, Designing History proposes a different perspective on design history—one that centers bureaucratic instruments such as money, passports, certificates, property deeds, and other official documents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese graphic forms shape everyday life in fundamental ways: they produce identity, assign ownership, grant permission, and establish value. Through their visual and administrative authority, such documents stabilize claims, memory, and knowledge that might otherwise remain vulnerable to dispute or erasure. Despite their apparent banality, these artifacts represent some of the most consequential forms in the history of graphic design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1202\" data-end=\"1709\"\u003eReaders are invited to engage with the implications of a design history grounded in the document. In this framework, the designer is no longer positioned primarily as the auteur figure celebrated in conventional design histories, but as a subject whose work operates alongside—and often within—the structures of bureaucratic authority. By examining the graphic design of official documents, Designing History reveals design’s often hidden entanglements with systems of governance, administration, and power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1711\" data-end=\"2078\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eAs a critical reflection on graphic design’s relationship to colonial and capitalist hegemonies, the book encourages readers to reconsider the political and institutional contexts in which design operates. In doing so, it opens up a space for exploring forms of practice and inquiry that move beyond—and at times challenge—the traditional boundaries of design itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DASH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56070210978118,"sku":"DES-BOO-642-SET","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/5893\/4598\/files\/DASH_DesigningHistory.png?v=1777029605","url":"https:\/\/dashpress.de\/products\/designing-history-documents-and-the-design-imperative-to-immutability","provider":"DASH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}