Merz to Emigre and beyond: avant-garde magazine design of the twentieth century

Introduction: The paper avant-garde

The old vanguard: the power of the press

Futurism and its malcontents: a revolution in print

The art of anti-art: the magazine as clarion of protest

Protest and resistance: Berlin from World War I to the Third Reich

Rational radicals: modernism and the New Typography

Guerrillas of commerce: the journals of radical design

Art attack: Aesthetics and the cultural revolution

Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and politics: the influences of the American underground

Pixel pirates: the desktop era

Epilogue: A few loose ends.