Originally published as "Design school confidential: extraordinary class projects from international design schools".

Includes index.

Introduction the gold standard -- Anatomy of a successful project -- The projects -- Helvetica nation -- VCUQatar 10th anniversary publications -- Cradle to grave -- Visual identity for the 25th biennial of graphic arts in Ljubljana -- On trial -- Product identity -- Locale -- Turning data into information -- Sacral design -- New identity for the academy of fine arts of Bologna -- Boston and Suzhou: a cultural concept book study -- Water, politics, and hope -- Town of split workshop -- My first political poster design: Chile, the other September 11th -- To die for -- South African stories -- The formal language of a display typeface -- Visualizing various information types across multiple channels -- X box -- Breaking the rules in interactive media design -- Medical information design -- Human rights, human wrongs -- Illustrating a fiction spread -- Prague souvenirs -- User-centered communication -- Creating meaningful graphics -- Make a chair -- Books for travel -- Collage poster workshop -- Research project -- Undaunted courage -- Development of type families for magazines -- Type as metaphor -- Horsepower -- What happened? -- Think: the credibility of information in the digital age -- Listen carefully -- Interactive music or musician's website -- Beyond the surface -- Pattern magazine -- Color y carnaval -- The transparent cover -- Reading the urban landscape -- Comic sequence -- Senior degree project in graphic design -- Modular type -- Communication design program -- Major design project -- Graphic design with any media -- The one -- Stop global warming -- Ways of seeing (sequential image making) -- Beatrice Warde and you.