Narrative density, exploration and discovery, in combination with excellent user-friendly design and content describes the work of James Cartwright. As editor of Printed Pages, a magazine of art and design, he demonstrates this attitude consistently in print and web media. The website of the magazine, »It's Nice That« offers a very interesting mix of diverse content.

»Hello Munich!« roars Pekka Toivonen to his stunned audience. The crowd falls silent for a video that plays with conventions from the porn and sex industry. Between latex fetish, a quickie threesome, oversized plastic penises and cucumbers Toivonen creates an absurd world in which young people mimic an air of sexual disengagement. A sad world of clichés and porn gestures that forfeits any erotic charge and at the same time makes merciless fun of these conventions. This is art that you have to respond to. The audience was struck dumb for a moment.

A »wanderer between the worlds« of graphic design, Patrick Waterhouse's drawings, prints, photographs and art books - such as the recently published edition of Dante's »Inferno« (made together with Fabrica) - testify to his wide spectrum appeal. As editor-in-chief of COLORS, a monothematic magazine with six bilingual editions, he proposes ideas about content: a series of interconnected narrative structures published as COLORS survival guides.

»The really interesting approaches come if and when the individual is ready to accept his evolutionary plan.« Commenting on his initial thesis in the same breath, Mike Meiré dryly and concisely states: »I know that at first this sounds like shit...« The explanation is actually quite simple, as the values most important to the designer, once hyped as a child prodigy of design and today established in the international industry, are really rather old fashioned: Attitude. Subjectivity. Personality. »Things tend to polarise because they are so subjective. They have to.