a reader that challenges the western study of graphic design to greater flexibility. central issues are globalization, how canons are shaped and re-shaped, commercialism and values, ideological working practices, and teaching approaches that consider class and socio-cultural backgrounds. edited and compiled by harsh patel, from classroom material over 2012-2020. with contributions by tuan phan, rosen eveleigh, sam de groot, and william pan. a5, paperback, 320 pages, 2024.
Cover: A 19th-century Western reproduction of a 1559 Ottoman mappa mundi attributed to Hacı Ahmet, likely a Turkish translation of a French cartographer’s work. Then titled Map of the World: A Complete and Perfect Map Describing the Whole World, Ahmet describes himself within this work as “poor, wretched, and downtrodden,“ and abducted by ”infidels.“ Work on the map was ostensibly exchanged for his freedom.
