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Good Nostalgia, Bad Nostalgia

When I just started reading, I had no idea what topic this article is talking about. However, after the first example that re-narrates historical documentation is shown, all the beginning paragraph starts to make sense to me. This proves one of the argument mentioned in the article: the design history is not written, but shown. Graphic design once was a method that uses visual habits to instill inequality in people's minds. To fight against this trend, designers start to use visual techniques to point out this influence. 

"By pointing to marginalized narratives, the campaign works to reverse erasure. It offers a view of the past that critiques the present."

The long history of printmaking makes typefaces able to connect to the past. Significant typefaces used in the civil movements become a sign of the political position and can encourage future generations to continue this political appeal. Typefaces can be applied to any text content. However, its historical applications cover it with a certain voice. Nostalgia is not history. It's a view. 

"Nostalgia is not the same thing as history. It is an affect of history. Nostalgia is an emotional condition which is based on memory and may move people to act. History is a domain of evidence-based research. History, like the social sciences, seeks to be accurate and objective. Nostalgia is a subjective way of narrating the past."

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