Here's a handy list of our contents for March/April. If there's a particular feature you'd like to discuss, let us know by replying and we'll create a separate thread for it. In addition to the New Visual Artists, we also focused on DIY culture and what it means for designers. If you want to discuss that article or Friends With You, we have separate threads for those already.
New Visual Artists Review Our annual presentation of the 20 brightest design stars under 30 years old.
Your Design Here Are amateurs taking over? Don’t panic—DIY culture just might have something to teach us. BY VIRGINIA POSTREL
Agency of One Advertisers
are rushing to let Joe Public make their commercials, but questions
remain about control, credibility, and effectiveness. BY ANTHONY VAGNONI
Magic Kingdom What happens when Miami meets Japanese culture? Lots of toys, parades, and playgrounds. Behold the power of Friends With You! BY CALEB NEELON
The Day the Yearbook Died Dead-tree books may be passé, but kids still want a place to keep their memories—and keep them current. BY JEFF MACINTYRE
Beautiful Dreamers A family’s treasured mementos from two New York City high schools in the ’30s say volumes about the way the world was then. BY PENNY WOLFSON
PRINT’s 43rd Student Cover Competition This year, the competition gets a case of the warm and fuzzies. INTRODUCTION BY JAMES GADDY
No Sign of the Dove Rub-down
death icons, Hebrew-slang flipbooks, reimagined book jackets—Israel’s
design students do it all. Just don’t ask them to design a peace
poster. BY ELLEN SHAPIRO
The Music Man Ten
years ago, Mike Diehl started hiring star illustrators to transform an
in-house Warner Bros. publication. Today, he’s still bringing visual
zest to an unlikely venue. BY MICHAEL DOOLEY
Serial-Box Surrealism In
the late ’60s, magazine-in-a-box SMS radically pushed the boundaries of
art and publishing with its populist assemblage of avant-garde
treasures. BY STEVEN HELLER
Warriors, Doctors, and Explosive Deliverymen
Can Korean comics find a manga-sized audience in America? BY DAVID WELSH
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