PROPHETS OF PROFITS
What's cooler than cool? More and more marketers in Europe and the U.S. are relying on trend forecasters to help them find out. By Charlotte Rivers

THE FLAT EARTH
Designer. Poster-maker. Woody Allen heckler. In Zürich, Ralph Schraivogel adds life and depth to surfaces where they can't physically exist.
By Dan Nadel

ICELAND'S DREAMING
If you've come to Katrín Pétursdóttir Young's ethereal world in search of typical Scandinavian minimalism. . . you're on the wrong planet.
By Katherine E. Nelson

THE KITSCH IN THE KITCHEN
"I want the kind of husband who does not go to bars!" An artist from Romania remembers the no-nonsense wisdom of her family's embroidered art.
By Andrea Dezsö

GUEVARARAMA!
Cuba's legendary rebel has become marketable all over Europe, his once-daunting image plastered on items ranging from key chains to cigarette lighters. Che guitar pick, anyone?
By Morris Taub

JESUS, ELVIS, AND ME
Welcome to Andreas Hykade's Bavarian nightmares of stick-figure rapists and a cartoonish crucifixion. Take that, Mel Gibson!
By John Canemaker

FASCISM ON THE FACADE
Much of modern Rome was shaped by the Fascists of the 1920s and '30s, but many tourists on their way to the Colosseum fail to see the remnants of la voce d'Italia.
By Paul Shaw

EUROPEAN DESIGN ANNUAL 2004
GREAT BRITAIN
IRELAND
SPAIN/PORTUGAL
THE NETHERLANDS
BELGIUM
FRANCE
DENMARK
NORWAY
SWEDEN
SWITZERLAND
ITALY
GERMANY
AUSTRIA
CZECH REPUBLIC
SLOVENIA
CROATIA
SERBIA/MONTENEGRO
GREECE
HUNGARY
POLAND
RUSSIA