FEATURES
Once Again, Seeing
A young photographer's visit to his family's Afghanistan home helped revitalize a lost art form-and his connection to the country. BY CLAIRE LUI

Models of the World
Yuyushi Furuta's bold, dimensional kanji revere the characters' past but reverberate with a fiercely personal interpretation. BY KIM LARSEN

Eating the Other
Is design helping disparate societies to connect, or encouraging the strip-mining of cultural resources? BY KAREN FISS

Belgrade Confidential
Serbia's designers emerge from their dark decade with an urgency to experiment and a hunger for pop culture. BY STEPHANIE SKIRVIN

First Person: The Official Graphic Operative Handbook
Design tactics for a more secure world. BY RHONDA RUBINSTEIN

Script Doctors
Religious mandates? Military threats? It's all in a day's work for Iran's increasingly visible designers and calligraphers. BY DANA BARTELT

The Hipster Bebop Junkie
Robert Brownjohn defined a legacy by creating edgy work, feeding his addictions, and burning out fast. BY EMILY KING

"Safe" at MoMA
How a Museum of Modern Art exhibition on protective design evolved into something both typical and unique. BY TOM VANDERBILT

DEPARTMENTS

FRONT
Contributors
Where we're calling from.

Letters
"I nearly choked when I saw the ad on page 45."

F.O.B.
Messages from New Orleans, diplomacy from Sri Lanka, an overfamiliar logo, and more.

Shelf Life
A box of '60s doo-wop, jagged thought bubbles, and Kleenex.

Monologue
Unsavory Characters The people of São Paulo don't mind graffiti. It's the pichação they hate. BY CALEB NEELON

Observer
Dry Walls Posters may be a perennial favorite at festivals, but they're still an endangered species. BY RICK POYNOR

Dialogue
Cathy Leff Director, The Wolfsonian.
INTERVIEW BY STEVEN HELLER

In Print
Vol. 38, No. 6/Vol. 41, No. 6 In its early years, PRINT was Eurocentric. We got over it. BY MARTIN FOX

Back
Desktop
Suite Deal Macromedia's Studio 8 update.
BY RICH HOXSEY

Books
How to be a graphic designer, without losing your soul
by Adrian Shaughnessy
REVIEW BY MILTON GLASER

The Work of Ismar David, edited by David Pankow
REVIEW BY ELLEN SHAPIRO

Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City
by William J. Mitchell
REVIEW BY MATTHIAS BRENDLER

Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986-2006, by Chip Kidd
REVIEW BY STEVEN HELLER

Event
Good Morning, and Good Luck Design: AIGA Design Conference, Boston.
REVIEW BY TODD PRUZAN

Society
Growth Industry Millions of Chinese girls are at risk. A public campaign comes to their aid. BY JUDE STEWART

End Product
Spy Cam BY JEREMY LEHRER