Influences looks at who and what is influencing and provoking graphic designers’ working methods and research processes today. Two hundred of the best, established and up-and-coming graphic designers around the world reveal their inspirations. From Charles and Ray Eames to John Cage, teaching to yawning, Frank Zappa to Ghandi, Charlie Chaplin to Kraftwerk – the collected answers show the influences driving contemporary design practice. Taking the form of a lexicon, the entries are indexed alphabetically with a list of biographies in the appendix.