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PRINT April 2008 - Departments
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DEPARTMENTS

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CONTRIBUTORS
Where we’re calling from.

LETTERS
“What is unnecessary about fighting the War on Terror?”

F.O.B.
12 years of animals, Chip Kidd’s new novel, comics for children, what Sagmeister learned, and more.

SHELF LIFE
A picture disc, the mile-high ugh, and Nick Hornby’s jackets.

MONOLOGUE
Blitzkrieg Top Mall fresh or yellowed with sweat, the rock tee will never die.
BY ELLEN CARPENTER

OBSERVER
Sexy Nextness In the pursuit of what’s new, are we missing out on what we’ve already discovered?
BY RICK POYNOR

NEWSSTAND
The Handmades Tale American Craft gets redesigned for a new generation of artisans and readers.
BY ALISSA WALKER

DIALOGUE
Khoi Vinh,
editorial director, NYTIMES.com.
INTERVIEW BY STEVEN HELLER

IN PRINT
Vol. 30/no. 4
At the heart of PRINTs 1976 fashion issue was a revolutionary illustrator.
BY MARTIN FOX

DESKTOP
Work With Me Technology that could change our desk-jockey ways.
BY ANDREW BLUM
Plus: Streamlined image editing, jumpin’ Typeflash, and a piping-hot bowl of fonts.

BOOKS
Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend, by Winsor McCay
REVIEW BY BILL KARTALOPOULOS

China Daily Life, by Reineke Otten; China Contemporary, by Christine de Baan, Huang Du, Jaap Guldemond, Garrie van Pinxteren, and Linda Vlassenrood
REVIEW BY CHARLIE MCATEER

The Vice Photo Book, by Vice magazine; Parisiennes: A Celebration of French Women, introduction by Xavière Gauthier
REVIEW BY CARLO MCCORMICK

With/Without, edited by Shumon Baser, Antonia Carver, and Markus Miessen
REVIEW BY BUZZ POOLE

EVENT
High Peaks, Wide Chasms AIGA and Icograda conferences.
REVIEWS BY JAMES GADDY AND ELLEN SHAPIRO

END PRODUCT
Cut, Fold, Load, Point, Shoot
BY CLIFF KUANG