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For your delectation this month we have

The final piece in Anna Gerber's series of articles on Design and Sustainability, this month looking at how visual communicators can make visible the hidden stories of products and their journey into our hands

An exclusive interview with Projector's Koichiro Tanaka whose Uniqlock project won just about every ad award going last year

An appreciation of graphic design's, if not forgotten, then certainly not as widely known as he should be genius, Barney Bubbles

A look at how the Choque Cultural gallery in São Paulo is attempting to breathe fresh life into the Brazilian tradition of Lambe-Lambe letterpress posters

And a special supplement on all the winners of the British Television Advertising Craft Awards

Plus, in Crit, David Crowley examines a new compilation of political imagery

Michael Johnson wonders what's going on with the new wave of self-obsessed graphic designers

And we discuss the blight of twee commercials soundtracks and ask what musical trends are next

And if you are a subscriber, you can enjoy our latest Monograph, this time featuring Satoshi Minakawa's beautiful shots of Japanese Dekatori

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