This book is a compilation of essays dealing with graphic design. J. Abbott Miller and Ellen lupton contribute an essay titled "A Natural History of Typography" in the section Looking Closer: Modernism and its Malcontents. Steven Heller writes of typographic nostalgia in his essay, "The Time Machine." Other sections of the book include Language and Dialects; Surface and Style; Form Follows Function; Sex Lies and Stereotypes; In the End, It's Education. Michael Dooley traces the development of Emigre by Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko in his essay "Kicking up a Little Dust." The essays contained in this volume were previously published in Print, Eye, Emigre, I.D. Magazine, AIGA Journal and other graphic design publications, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.