Includes index.

Introduction -- Ch. 1. Transcending boundaries -- Ch. 2. Content-dri ven approach. Marshall Arisman : personally invested -- Brad Holland : rebel with a cause -- Dave McKean : making a connection -- Ch. 3. Reint erpreting the visual landscape. Barron Storey : social consciousness -- Sensory connection : exploring graphic language -- David Mack : visual narrator -- Dynamic storytelling : the art of kabuki -- Ch. 4. Buildin g the surface. Kazuhiko Sano : illustrated haiku -- Altering the workin g ground -- Michael Mew : contemporary nostalgia -- Creating a tactile environment through collage -- Kathleen Conover : transformations : fro m chaos to order -- Toning the surface in inventive ways -- Rudy Gutier rez : wall medicine -- Mixing media -- Lynne Foster : inside out -- Usi ng custom transfers and xerography -- Fred Otnes : sum of the parts -- Ch. 5. Projecting forward. Lisa L. Cyr : visual poetry -- Dimensional s ubstrates and treated surfaces -- Cynthia Von Buhler : beneath the surf ace -- Kinetic accents -- Robert Maloney : deconstruction and reconstru ction -- Signature constructs and add-ons -- Susan Leopold : artistic d ialogue -- Sculptural and tactile surfaces -- A.E. Ryan : recasting the everyday -- Ch. 6. The digital realm. Matt Manley : paradoxical rhythm s -- Digital collage : from classical to experimental -- Stephanie Dalt on Cowan : narrative juxtapositions -- Embellishing the digital surface -- Richard Tuschman : passages of time -- Virtual assemblage -- Doroth y Simpson Krause : visual journalist -- Ink-jet printing : alternative surfaces and approaches -- Ch. 7. New media for a new world -- Contribu tors -- Manufacturers, suppliers & artist resources -- Index.