Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability USA He died of a heart

He died of a heart attack in 1950

since this book appeared to have remained unopened

Deanna Dikeman chronicles ordinary moments of her family’s activities

Sibylle Peters

Working together for the past seven years

Designing History: Documents and the Design Imperative to Immutability USA He died of a heartMoving 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