Major Feature: Alternative Desire
Beauty is, as they say, in the eye of the beholder. It is also, very often, an acquired taste. This is true of the worlds of literature, poetry, drama, music, painting and sculpture. Because their means if expression went against the classical cannons of their time, these artists' works were howled down when they fi rst appeared. The difficulties of getting boundary-stretching work accepted apply equally to designers, of course.

In the major feature that follows, we take pleasure in presenting five designers from different fi elds who have in common the fact that what they do is regarded as difficult, disturbing, upsetting, outrageous or just plain weird by some mainstream arbiters of taste but highly acclaimed by many others. We will leave it up to you to decide whether you think the creations of these designers are beautiful or not.

Featured Artists include Henrik Vibskov, Mark Holthusen, Nicholas Di Genova, Ray Caesar and Stefan Sagmeister.

Specifications
- 110 Pages
- Paper Back
- Colour throughout
- DVD-ROM included
- US$15

It's Playtime! Making fun out of art
Welcoming the 2006, IdN announce "no-one needs to look for an excuse to 'have fun' anymore!" It is Playtimes all the time when there is creative design. IdN's latest issue introduces the creative products by hanging the work of seven humorous designers from different fields. With the fully shown up of the designer's attitudes to their work and their audience, you will know playtime is just everywhen.

Featured Artists � Atypyk/ Fernando & Humberto Campana/ Francois Chalet/ jorg gatjens/ kit grover/ smith and jones/ marc newson

Creative Country: Influencing the World
Australia , one of the most exciting countries to be living in right now, invigorates your creative senses from every its cities or towns. Try to get into the senses by 15 of the local designers' idea bring; you will know how their involvement in life and design change the international design community to increase the look to Australia .

Interactive: Eureka! They've found Nanika
Hi-ReS!, the most creative interactive design studios sets up a new company that exclusively focuses on physical-interaction design. How will it work?

Music: Much more than just composing
In this issue of the music column, we will be looking at the world of electronic music and the environment it's played in. We have the artists engaged in a lot more than just their music, but offering an interesting perspective on how they look at the artist field.

Look who's drawing? Don't cry for them, Argentina
Volume 13 Number 1, IdN featured dozen of Argentinian illustrators. Across the illustrators' works, they speak out the devastating economic crisis their country has just been through. For as so often happens in an emergency, the extremity of what was happening to them forced an extreme reaction - and the result has been nothing short of a revolution on the design scene in Argentina, both in the kind of art being produced and the way in which it is being produced or, more to the point, marketed.

More Must Read Content:

Variety is the Spice for Rinzen
Rinzen, the best know Australian design group, appeared their works in books and magazine published around the world and commissioned by clients like Absolut Vodka, Diesel, Nylon, Bruts and Mooks. One of the member, Rila Alexander even launched its clothing label recently.

Perception- (How perceptive was that?)
Jeremy Lasky (design director), Brendan Werner (editorial director) and Daniel Gonzalez (effects director) formed their company in 2002. They raised "It's not just how creative you are design-wise, but how creative you can be with the technology".

Lovely Productions - (Talented Trio produce lovely work)
On 2003 summer, Lovely Productions formed. The members shall a mutual passion for creating original entertainment and content for all platform: TV, 3G devises, the web, airlines and cinema.

DVD Rom Content
Azul de Corso
Julianna Pedemonte
Decent Days & Nights - The Futureheads by Stardust
Honda Motor Europe by Lost in Space
Slippery Town - made for Panasonic Olympic campaign
Shilo
Atheltics
Perception
Lovely Productions
J-Power by MK12
J- Railways by NAKD
Lexus Is "Any Roadi" by A52
Nike "Blue Wins" by Wieden + Kennedy
Nissan "Soar" by Stardust

Specifications
- 95 Pages
- Paper Back
- Colour throughout
- DVD-ROM included
- Languages: English, Chinese, Japanese available