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Signage and Carnage in the Year of the Dog by Ralph Caplan: Traffic signs set the rules of the road, but signage alone won’t create order where only chaos exists. Caplan recalls the postwar pileup on China’s highways and byways.
Design Life Now: Curating the National Design Triennial by Ellen Lupton: How do you filter three years’ worth of design into one comprehensive exhibition? Author and curator Lupton shares some of her insider secrets.
Bookatainment: An Interview with Jim Heimann by Steven Heller: Who wouldn’t like to track down rare and exotic design ephemera for a living? Heller speaks to Taschen editor Heimann about his dream job.
Jack, We Hardly Knew Ye by Phil Patton: Is there an island of lost logos, a place for bygone corporate symbols in a merger-crazed world? Patton ponders the fate of the Cingular Jack.
Brand America: Of False Promises and Snake Oil by Daniel Drennan: On the streets of Beirut, a vernacular of graffiti, political posters and banners has been adopted by top-down messengers, and met with a ground-up reaction. Drennan, our correspondent in Lebanon, reports on the heated exchange.
The Original Night at the Museum: An Interview with Milan Trenc by Steven Heller: How did an obscure children’s book by a Croatian illustrator turn into a box-office sensation? Heller speaks to Trenc about his Hollywood moment.