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CONTENTS:
Jonathan Barnbrook et al., First Things First Manifesto 2000 (on front cover).
Rick Poynor, First Things First Revisited (essay).
Matt Owens, Deep End (visual essay).
Andreas Lauhoff, Speech-recognizing letterforms (visual essay).
Katherine McCoy, Visceral/Virtual (essay on the late P. Scott Makela).
Philip Meggs, Dead History (essay).
Lewis Blackwell, Addictions/Meditations (essay on P. Scott Makela).
Emigre Product Catalog
Stephen Farrell and Ji-won Son, Inhabiting Forms: Visible Citizens (visual essay, with texts by Steve Tomasula and Italo Calvino).
Elliott Earls, (portrait of Howard Roark).
Rudy VanderLans, A Topography of the California High Desert (photographs, accompanied by the poem “81”Poop Hatch by Don van Vliet).

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Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content, Poster Design, Regional Histories
One of the main features in Gebrauchsgraphik 08, 1963 is focused on the 1962/63 annual poster awards in Germany. Over twenty posters were awarded by the Association of German Commercial Artists.
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Design Archive Feature, Designer Profiles
A profile of British designer Dennis Bailey, featured in Modernist Graphic Design in Britain 1945–1980 by Ian McLaren and Tony Pritchard, exploring his early influences and role in shaping post-war modernist graphic design in Britain.
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Advertising Design, Design Archive Feature, Members Only Content
Bäumer gave the company a unique brand image amplifying its graphical image after a time of post-war economic recovery. This style of advertising composition can be seen across many 1960s campaigns, especially from other German designers such as Anton Stankowski.
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