This issue is a firework of illustrative styles, sparkling ideas, and surprising visual worlds: You will encounter monsters on bicycles, quirky birds in manipulated landscapes, and letter blobs made of concrete. On 27 pages of this issue, we introduce you to international graphic designers whose works we find to possess great originality and topicality. So come along on a journey into a world beyond reason and calculation – not entirely unlike Pepperland, which the great Heinz Edelmann once created.

In the Discourse section, Swiss art historian Beat Wyss reveals the historical references and allusions he discovered in "Yellow Submarine," and those who were curious about the Wood Chair by the Front group, exhibited at the Milan Furniture Fair, can now read more about their inspiration in Rahel Ueding's "Making Of" report.

May/June 2010, Verlag form, 122 pages, 23 × 29.8 cm, softcover, issue in German/English