As it reads in the tiny squiggly type on the top corner of this poster for the National Design Conference of the American Institute of Graphic Arts in New Orleans: Why a headless chicken? Is it a metaphor for the profession? Should we stop running around like one and sign up for this very interesting conference? Is it a Voodoo symbol? Anti-technology? Will a mixture of telephone scribbles and turn-of-the-century Art Brut really be the hot new style replacing wood veneer, itsy-bitsy type in boxes, and round corners? Wasn’t New Simplicity supposed to come first? Euro-Techno?