Λεπτομέρειες βιβλιογραφικής εγγραφής
| Τίτλος: |
Design as accomplice: Typography, heritage and racialization. |
| Συγγραφείς: |
Lee, Christopher |
| Πηγή: |
Journal of Illustration; 2026, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p33-55, 23p |
| Θεματικοί όροι: |
Typographic design, Racialization, Asian studies, Critical race theory, Design, Graphic design, Culture |
| Περίληψη: |
This article examines graphic design and illustration as participants in heritage-making processes that actively produce racial meaning. Through 1882–1982–2019, an experimental 'chop suey' typeface developed as a non-practical, discursive artefact, the article traces how illustrated lettering and typographic form have functioned historically within American nation-building and Asian racialization in the West. Drawing on critical race, ethnic and Whiteness studies, the project reframes chop suey typography not as a marginal, crude or inauthentic vernacular form but as a distinctly American genre emerging from illustrated satire, labour politics and liberal progress narratives. Methodologically, the article advances a practice-led, undisciplined mode of historical narration that treats typographic design as a tool for critical heritage inquiry rather than affirmative stylistic recovery. A comparative coda on Japanese mingei further situates design heritage, constituted against vernacular forms as an accomplice to state power, canon formation and racial ordering across contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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