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As Tiffany Meyers observes in her overview of the 100 winners, one can’t peg 2009 as the year of any specific color or typographic convention. But the winning projects are reflective of today’s increasingly diverse design discipline. In fact, one has to wonder if there is any longer such a thing as a design discipline—in light of today’s fast-changing and even amorphous practice, the word discipline seems a little out of place.
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Learn about the fresh faces of design, their mentors, and the schools that made it all possible.

		ICON5: Illustrating the Big Picture September/October 2008 V24N5 Cat butts, dirty girls, orphan artworks, new markets: They were just a few of the topics covered at ICON5, held in New York City over the 4th of July weekend. A founder of the illustration conference reviews this year's proceedings, & artist-attendees present their impressions.

		Class Act - The Portfolio Matures September/October 2007 V23N5 A vision of the student portfolio as book has taken root at the Academy of Art University and is now spreading among design educators.

		Alleviating Crises Through Propaganda July/August 2006 V22N4 Indonesian graphic designers—along with artists from around the globe—banded together to help their own after the 2004 tsunami devastated their homeland.

		Social Entrepreneurship + Good Design May/June 2006 V22N3 Bill Strickland took a simply brilliant idea— give underserved people the best of design and fine arts and they will thrive— and built a state-of-the-art educational facility in Pittsburgh that’s inspiring replication efforts nationwide.

		THE 2005 ADAA WINNERS January/February 2006 V22N1 Open the floodgates and watch them steal your jobs.

		Every Design Tells A Story January/February 2006 V22N1 All student portfolios present a gallery of work. This one presents the work as a book, with explanatory text in a well-paced, editorial design that creates a personal brand for the graduate.

		Higher Education Nov/Dec 2005 V21N6 When no one else was looking, these women began to re-examine the role of education in design. Now it’s impossible to ignore what they’ve accomplished.

		Designing New Mentoring Nov/Dec 2005 V21N6 Escaping from the sugary mother-daughter relationship model into a more complex and more fun collaboration.

		The Education of Paul Sahre: Full Circle July/August 2005 V21N4 Paul Sahre’s story should be widely known by now. But he remains an enigma—or at least hard to characterize.

		Celebrating the Peculiar July/August 2005 V21N4 Museums of oddities offer something for everyone

		Schools of Thoughts 2: AIGA Educators' Conference May/June 2005 V21N3 Graphic design educators addressed various hot button issues that affect graphic design students, teachers, and the industry itself. Speakers included Bruce Sterling, Lorraine Wild and Kathy McCoy.

		The Care and Feeding of Emerging Talent, Part Two May/June 2005 V21N3 Two more creative directors tell us how they found and managed talent to grow their businesses.

		Field Guide To Emerging Design Talent January/February 2005 V21N1 Distinctive markings, calls, and flight patterns of 25 representative examples of today’s most talented fledgling designers, nominated by a committee of distinguished international designers and educators.

		The Care and Feeding of Emerging Talent, Part One January/February 2005 V21N1 Two creative directors tell us how to find and manage talent—and a former protégé gives thanks.

		Student Design Competition Winners January/February 2005 V21N1 The best from the student category of STEP's annual design competition.