A history of design teaching from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s told through essays
interviews remembrances and primary materials. With contributions by more than forty of the
most influential voices in art architecture and design After the Bauhaus Before the
Internet traces a history of design teaching from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s through essays
interviews and primary materials. Geoff Kaplan has gathered a multigenerational group of
theorists and practitioners to explore how the evolution of graphic design pedagogy can be
placed within a conceptual and historical context. At a time when all choices and behaviors are
putatively curated and when design thinking” is recruited to solve problems from climate
change to social media optimization the volume’s contributors examine how design’s
self-understandings as a discipline have changed and how such changes affect the ways in which
graphic design is being historicized and theorized today.
