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PRINT April 2008

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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.

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

PRINTs 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


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DEPARTMENTS


F.O.B.

We look back on 12 years of trendy animals

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

DESKTOP
Work With Me Technology that could change our desk-jockey ways.
BY ANDREW BLUM

HOT TYPE
PAUL SHAW reviews new foundry Alphabet Soup

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

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