This unusual typographic experiment explores the relationship between graphic design, typography and the reading of a page. It collects the responses of 70 international graphic designers to the same brief – to lay out the first page of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Of interest to designers and non-designers alike, readers will relish the attention to detail and charmed by the idiosyncratic approaches to this much-loved text.Each layout is accompanied by a short rationale explaining the decision-making process.