PRINT Magazine - April 2008 Features TOC

FEATURES

Our April 2008 issue shines a spotlight on young designers, including our 10th anniversary of New Visual Artists and our 44th Student Cover Competition. This year's issue also focuses on the stylish alchemy between graphics and fashion, including fierce runway invites, and how classic young adult books have been redesigned over the decades to reflect changing tastes.

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Making It Fit
Graphic designers long for the old days of artistic freedom in the fashion industry. But it’s still possible to find one's creative match
BY ERIKA KAWALEK

People of the Cloth
Digital printing is freeing designers to create whole new future for fabric.
CLAIRE LUI

Cover Girls
Young adult novels are rebranded as often as their latest readers come of age.
BY REBECCA BENGAL

R.S.V.P.
Whether elaborately decorative or arrogantly abstruse, invitations to runway shows are a way for fashion designers to show their true colors.
BY VÉRONIQUE VIENNE

Times of the Sign
It’s been on shopping bags and boxes for decades—a true American brand. But how well do you know Lord & Taylor’s signature flourish?
BY PAUL SHAW
Plus, Angela Voulangas checks out Lord & Taylor’s new direction.

Satellite Office
At Sputnik, a small pack of students juggles the pressure of art school with the responsibilities of a working design studio. High stress, low rates. Very low
BY COLIN BERRY

PRINT’s 44th Student Cover Competition
This year, for the first time, our readers picked the winner.
INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE LUI

New Visual Artists
On the 10th anniversary of the competition, we take a look back at the past decade of winners and present the 2008 class of the 20 brightest design stars under 30