Thinking through graphic design history: challenging the canon

Section 1. Design and history: compatible forms of inquiry. Historiography

Methods

Time

Section 2. Design and appropriation: history as reference. Intertextuality

Redemption

Heritage

Nostalgia

Hauntology

Section 3. Design and new narratives: history and its subjects. Problematizing the canon

Broadening the canon

Dismantling the canon

Section 4. Design and world-building: history and the future. Visualizing alternatives

Speculative fictions

Artificiality and interventions.