Adaptation: A Response to ______________. Side A

The first double sided volume in the GraphicHug series of visual and written themed responses. This series is a collected collaboration between graphic designers, writers and artists from around the world. Through this series GraphicHug hopes to share our thoughts, reactions, and feelings to changing topics of relevant interest. To kick it off GraphicHug chose to explore the theme of adaptation. We felt it both timely and multifarious enough to engage a wide range of responses. How does one respond and react to a year that never ceases to change? Never ceases to shift? A year that perhaps more so than others, is in such a dramatic state of flux. The answers we received to these questions delighted and impressed us, (the editors). The sheer range and ecelecticism collected in these pages, we hope, communicates a critical and dynamic riposte to the theme. We hope you feel the same. Enjoy. We love to hug. We love graphic design. We love to hug graphic design.