Design History Reader: An Emerging Vision for a New Narrative

How can we — as people, as designers, as educators — contribute to change? How can we foster more enhanced cultures of empathy and inclusion? Design History Reader grapples with the paradox that while historians intentionally craft historical discourse based on collective knowledge, it often remains bound to a singular perspective. This book encourages a pluralistic approach to the teaching and narrating of the history of graphic design, presenting a history that actually reflects the diversity in the classroom and in the profession at large.  Throughout this book, the Western design history canon is challenged through written research, highlighting under-known designers and design movements who deserve representation. In collaboration with design educator Kristen Coogan, graduate and undergraduate graphic design students studying the History of Graphic Design at Boston University are encouraged to embrace a plural design history pedagogy, multiplying perspectives and bringing their ow