Immutable: Designing History

by Chris Lee

On graphic design’s complicity with power and what can be done to transform the field Here, graphic designer and Pratt Institute professor Chris Lee looks at graphic design in relation to politically loaded documents such as passports, money and property deeds, showing how the profession’s entanglement with power can be overcome.

Genres: Design

126 pages, Paperback

Published May 30, 2023

Reviews

[Sam Timmings · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just finished this absolute banger. Immutable outlines graphic design's origins in statecraft and long entanglement with power. Capitalism and colonialism need a divine mandate for violence; a mandate which they find through banal documents. Lee is thorough, concise and persuasive. Rocked my shit.