Graphic ISSUE 7 - Name your price

'Life from birth to death is a juggle of gain, loss and the soul, which is the last remaining unpaid accountant.' Jeff RiannFinally, Graphic Magazine dares to touch upon the tricky subject of. money. Yeah, that subject.nIn Re: Money our own Sebastian Campos (aka Aficionado) pays nothing and gets Paul Eliman, Jennifer Gange, Rafael Rozendaal & Christopher Pearson to help him produce a series of visual essays on that sore subject.nSebastian Campos (aka Aficionado) must indeed have been broke this time round as he then volunteers to interview the founders of groundbreaking Brooklyn art & design gallery Riviera. He wanted to do more, but we couldn't afford it.nMarc A Valli gets no money for his Green Hills of Lake Geneva piece. He was the first to admit it was not worth much anyway.nOn the other hand, Lachlan Blackley pays the rent by interviewing Hanna Melin, Kiyoshi Kuroda, whereas his comprehensive profile of NY-based graphic designer, illustrator, Tokion art-director, Neomu publisher (gosh, she must be making lots off money!) and all-round artist Deanne Cheuk will surely allow him to take a year off.nIn Magic Realism, the fabulously wealthy Mairie Duthie talks to Tom Dixon about production issue and other very concrete & material realities of design (as in Habitat).nVast sums of money have been invested in convincing leading visual creatives such as My K, Reed Anderson, Gum, Ersnt Fischer, Nawel, Mathias Hoene, Federico Garonzi, Giuliano Galvani, Ryan Wallace, Daniel Eatock, Patrick Duffy, Akinori Shimodaira, Value & Service, Yield & Kevin Devine to contribute exclusive work for this very rich & exclusive issue of Graphic.nAbake offers our readers (they do it for free!) the 10th issue of I Am Still Alive - We Buy A Carrot With A Potato (1).nIndependently wealthy Adrian Shaughnessy has been paid what is probably the equivalent of a whole month's salary for a worker (not a foreman) in a Sierra Leone diamond mine to tell us all about how designers relate to money.nUp and coming agency This Is Real Art tells us all about how they help their clients (with among them known millionaires such as Tom Hignstom, Michael C. Place/Build, Kim Hiorthoy, Rob Ryan, Johnny Hardstaff.) make stacks of money.nIn 'Insert Coin' Samuel Baker looks at the notion of imaginary currencies in computer games.nWe are glad to announce that one of our favourite writers, Jeff Ryan, has managed to spare a few quid to give to a tramp and a (in an even more generous impulse) also managed to spare a few hours of his extremely valuable time to write about it in this issue. nLast but not least, Darren Buckingham uncovers the mysterious tale of Yie Chien Wu. How much did he make?