A Clean,Well-Branded Place
Cities, states, and nations have begun adapting new identities—but do their marketing efforts work?
by Kate Fitzgerald

Defining Redesign
Art director Mark Thomson tailors a new identity for the British publisher Collins.
by Clare Dowdy

Fashion Plates
Standardization is eliminating the one-of-a-kind, personalized license plates of Mumbai, India.
by Ellen Shapiro
photography by Kurnal Rawat

Making the Cut
The graphic designer's role in memorial design has always been minimal. But that might be changing.
by Tom Vanderbilt

For Openers
Pablo Ferro's titling for Dr. Strangelove in 1964 racheted up a film career that's still setting a standard.
by Steven Heller

Truth and Reconciliation
A Cambodian designer attempts to make peace with the past by documenting the Khmer Rouge's horrors.
by Edward Lovett

First Person: White Space
A meditation on "the color of modern times."
by Abbott Miller

Talk to Me
Andreas Uebele's architectural signage takes shape after he "hears" what's needed from the building itself.
by Bruce N. Wright

Culture Jamming
How Africa's pop album covers have been influenced by Western designers' cynical strategies.
by Alastair Johnston

Departments

COMMENT
Notes about this issue, and PRINT's redesign.
by Joyce Rutter Kaye

CONTRIBUTORS
Where we're calling from.

LETTERS
"If my company bans this issue of PRINT, might other periodicals be banned as well?"

F.O.B.
Government comics from Japan, clean graffiti from England, a note on our new type, and more.

SHELF LIFE
New album covers, book jackets, and packaging: the best and worst.

MONOLOGUE
Going Public - A Napster-like revolution promises to spread design language and its tools to the masses.
by Ellen Lupton

OBSERVER
Being There - The prophets of the digital revolution omitted plenty when they made their '90s proclamations.
by Rick Poynor

NEWSSTAND
No Surrender - DoubleTake was once America's most celebrated new arts journal. Why didn't it stay afloat?
by Jason Zengerle

DIALOGUE
Glenn Horowitz - On the sale of the Herbert Matter Archive to Stanford University.
by Steven Heller

IN PRINT
Vol. 1 /No. 1 - Reflections on PRINT's June 1940 debut.
by Martin Fox

DESKTOP
Collective Soul - Designers' resource sites, a FlightCheck Studio extension, Optimo Didot type, and more.
by Rich Hoxsey

TYPE
FF Celeste Sans - A new "retrospective transitional" by Christopher Burke.
by Paul Shaw

BOOKS
The Push Pin Graphic, by Seymour Chwast
review by Ellen Shapiro The Business of Holidays, edited by Maud Lavin
review by Colin Berry
Freedom Fries, by Steve Brodner
review by Edward Sorel
In the Shadow of No Towers, by Art Spiegelman
review by Peter Kuper

EVENT
Hard News - Visa Pour L'Image in Perpignan, France
review by Rhonda Rubinstein

FRAMES
Out of Film - Digital technology has made the end of traditional filmmaking a virtual certainty.
by Joseph Kennedy

END PRODUCT
Book Baptism - Melcher Media's waterproof books are both submersible and eco-friendly.
by Caitlin Dover