Many brilliant young designers have emerged from China in recent years and Chinese design is progressing every second. The material produced there by young designers is original, striking and cutting edge. Thunderbolt is an aggregate that describes the new generation, new forms, new concepts and new styles of graphic design. It introduces the graphic, design and illustrative work of some of China's freshest faces; all the work included has been produced by designers born after 1980 and illustrates the future of design in Asia. A biography of each young designer is included. AUTHOR: Yang Liu graduated from the Visual Communications Department at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, where she now teaches. ILLUSTRATIONS 500 colour