Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability USA since this book appeared to

since this book appeared to have remained unopened

Deanna Dikeman chronicles ordinary moments of her family’s activities

the seventh edition of Ecoes – a special

Elizabeth Staal

a prominent and celebrated section of HOTSHOE magazine since 2005

Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability USA since this book appeared toMoving beyond the usual genres of form endemic to graphic designs canonical history, Designing Documents proposes a design history that centers bureaucratic instruments like money, passports, certificates, property deeds, and more. Such documents produce identity, assign ownership, grant permission, and ascribe value. They stabilize claims, memory, and knowledge that would otherwise be vulnerable to contestation or obliteration. Despite their apparent