So delighted to receive my copy of "Thinking Through Graphic Design History: Challenging the Canon" by #AggieToppins!
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St. Louis-based designer + author Aggie Toppins guides us through the Archive. Read her picks: embroidery, paste up, Olympics, and more.

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Designs by Charles Dawson, airline coffee shop mural, Mac brochure.
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@aggietoppins i really enjoyed your @surfacepodcast episode. ✨

@aggietoppins):
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/can-we-teach-graphic-design-history-without-the-cult-of-hero-worship/

Can anyone provide other examples of AIGA chapters that have “paused”/closed? I’m curious if this is A) common and I’m simply unaware, or B) a bellwether of change.
https://x.com/aggietoppins/status/1169360254833954816?s=21

@aggietoppins great piece!

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“Design heroes are mythical—we imagined them, and we can unimagine them. As a field, we should stop perpetuating the idea that designers are singular change-agents who act on culture from outside of it.”
—@aggietoppins...

My critical issues course meets two more times this semester, but the rest is students reading their own writing. Tonight was the last class where we chorally read/discussed the writing of others. Finished up by reading this lovely piece by @aggietoppins....

Tonight in my design criticism class we chorally read and then discussed “Can We Teach Graphic Design History Without the Cult of Hero Worship?” (https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/can-we-teach-graphic-design-history-without-the-cult-of-hero-worship/)
by @aggietoppins, and then “The...

(https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/visiblelanguage/pdf/28.4/messy-history-vs-neat-history-toward-an-expanded-view-of-women-in-graphic-design.pdf)

2. “Can We Teach Design History w/o the Cult of Hero Worship?” by @aggietoppins...

@aggietoppins @NewberryLibrary Interesting to compare with where it ended up: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_0088&targPic=lfa_type_0088_003.jpg Kinda think some of those are better than the final.

@typographica @commercialtype @greggazdowicz @aggietoppins https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeclark/4009371011 https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajeremia/15603992483