Disquiet in the Graphic Design Archive

Alice Twemlow

Alice Twemlow Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1898-184X

Keywords: Graphic design, Graphic design archives, Intersectional feminism, Heritage preservation, Archive network

Abstract

This paper is part of the base-camp-preparation for a research project in which I seek better understanding of the role of design history in negotiating the relationship between graphic design as heritage and graphic design as contemporary professional practice. It leans on perspectives and dispositions derived from decolonial aesthesis and intersectional feminism being used to question and disrupt representational biases and imbalances in cultural heritage preservation generally, and explores how such theories and tactics might also support critical intervention in the graphic design archive, specifically.

Author Biography

Alice Twemlow, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK)

È research professor presso la Royal Academy of Art dell’Aia (KABK), dove dirige il gruppo di lettura “Design and the Deep Future”, e professore incaricato presso la cattedra Wim Crouwel di Storia, teoria e sociologia del design grafico e della cultura visiva dell’Università di Amsterdam (UvA). La sua ricerca affronta le complesse interrelazioni del design con il tempo e l’ambiente e si manifesta in scritti, mostre, conferenze e formazione.
Tra le sue pubblicazioni: StyleCity New York (Thames & Hudson, 2003); What is Graphic Design For? (Essential Design Handbooks) (RotoVision, 2006); Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism (MIT Press, 2017).