Featuring Chicago's VSA Partners who use chaos to keep their work fresh; Illustrator Vivienne Flesher whose taste for travel brings inspiration and spontaneity to her work; San Diego-based VitroRobertson whose creative team works outside the typical advertising agency structure; Paris-based design collective Atelier de Création Graphique; Southern California photographer Pete McArthur who turns simple still lives into photo/illustrations; the 1994 exotic-locale-inspired color predictions; selections from the Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition. Bill Borders discusses the evils of pre-testing; Mike Hicks laments over why designers are seldom financially secure.