This annual illustrated anthology of the best work by U.S. graphic designs contains sections on typographic, book and advertising design. Covering the five competitions held by the American Institute of Graphic Arts during the last program year -- Books and Communication Graphics, Just Type, The Mental Menagerie, The Mental Picture and California Design -- the volume highlights new trends in this extremely volatile field. It presents both a current celebration of the state of the art and a record from which the inevitable judgements of history might be made