"I don’t have one favourite piece of print, I love all print and there is so much amazing stuff out there. Things that inspire me though are old wrestling posters, and we’ve used that kind of thing in our Vintage imagery. The reason is simple: my dad is Billy Two Rivers and he was a champion heavyweight wrestler in the 1950s and 1960s"
Wayne Hemingway of Hemingway Design was founder of iconic fashion label Red or Dead and regularly appears in the media discussing issues such as fashion and social housing

"I love Dodo Pads and always have loved them, since I was little"
Emma Thompson, Academy Award-winning screenwriter and BAFTA-winning actress

"Sorrell & Son, a novel by Warwick Deeping. It was published in 1925 and my father loved the book. As a young jew making his way in east London, and to combat anti-semitism, my father decided to change his Russian (Ukrainian) name - and Sorrell was the name he chose"
Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive at WPP, one of the world’s biggest ad agencies

"Without question it’s Audubon’s Birds. I am an art dealer and I am enjoying the book, but there is someone who stands behind me who will be enjoying it longer than I will. What makes it very special for me is that when I’m not an art dealer I am an ornithologist. The birds are deeply familiar to me and part of the fabric of life"
Michael Tollemache, purchaser of the world’s most expensive printed book – Audubon’s Birds of America – sold at auction at Sotheby’s last year for £7.3m

"Everyone knows about the famous Harry Beck Underground map from the early 1930s, but the one by Fred Stingemore is more beautiful. It’s also a little more confusing and cropped, but as I live between Belsize Park and Hampstead, I’m not too worried. Beck made his Tube ‘diagram’ look like a circuit board, but this one, from 1927, looks like a map drawn by a clever child, and I love the curves and colours. And there are other wonders, including stations called Down St, Praed St and British Museum. Whatever happened to those, and whatever happened to Fred Stingemore?"
Simon Garfield, author of Just My Type, a book about fonts

"I have subscribed to the New York Review of Books for more than 20 years. I know of no other publication in the English language which covers such a diversity of subjects so well. It does, of course, lean to the left, but the writing is usually superb; the essays are particularly strong on foreign policy; and the polemics in the letters column fought out with a passionate and acerbic intensity"
Sir Christopher Meyer, KCMG former British ambassador to the US and current president of The Printing Charity

"I don’t remember where I got this poster [depicting Ronald Reagan embracing Margaret Thatcher in a Gone With The Wind spoof], or what happened to it, but it was stuck, tattered, to my wall when I was a teenager, along with various photomontages that I later found out were by Peter Kennard. The 1980s were an interesting decade in retrospect; the normalisation of destruction and the concurrent devastation of egalitarian politics were a result of the rightward drift of the economics and politics of the time. But look at the lovely couple: the Iron Lady and the Gipper. Oh, happy days"
Stanley Donwood, artist whose work includes all of Radiohead’s album and poster art

"My son Freddie drew the Laverstoke image, now called ‘Mr Laverstoke’, when he was four years old, and gave it to me for my birthday as I talked about farming all the time. We thought it was just a mistake, but nine years later he got the number-one art scholarship at Radley College. We spent a whole holiday negotiating a royalty!"
Jody Scheckter piloted his Ferrari to victory and became F1 World Champion in 1979. He now runs Laverstoke Farm in Hampshire and ‘Mr Laverstoke’ features on all its packaging and brand materials

"Apart from the Financial Times - pink, perky, stylishly smart - I do love the New York Review of Books, described as the ‘premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language’. The broadsheet format exudes authority as does the thickness of the newsprint, the font sizes and the overall Clarendon and Mrs Eaves’ typeface"
Lionel Barber, editor, Financial Times

"The Dark Summer by Bob Carlos Clarke. I first saw this book at Coliseum Books in New York City when I was at university studying painting and photography. This book captures the 1980s with its carefully planned black-and-white and hand-coloured images – where fashion meets rock ’n’ roll. The models included London glamour model and singer Sam Fox and New York nightclub personality Dianne Brill posing in London’s Brompton Cemetery. This was and still is an inspiration for my photographic work"
Vincent Connare, typographer and photographer, and designer of the font Comic Sans

When this ad I created ran in Life Magazine in 1960, Advertising Age (I've since called them "Advertising Old Age") wrote an editorial attacking me and the ad. "No photograph! No body copy! No Package shot! No logotype! No nothing!", they exclaimed. "George Lois, now at his own ad agency, Papert Koenig Lois, is destroying advertising as we know it. Where can the advertising of the future be headed?! The Coldene ad shocked the establishment, the media, ad agencies and advertisers. But consumers loved it and Coldene sales exploded. Ad Age obviously sensed something revolutionary was happening in realm of creative art direction – and they were right. That ad, and hundreds that followed, sparked the Creative Revolution of the 1960s. Within 5 years, along with Doyle Dane Bernbach (the first creative agency in the world) and after Papert Koenig Lois, four other creative agencies were founded in America, making the 1960s the Golden Age of Advertising. The biting, humorous satire of the Coldene ad depicting the male chauvinism of the day, was a startling statement in the America of 1960, and the impact of modern graphic design by visualizing the scene in a solid black room, along with the chutzpah to leave out the traditional product shot, body copy, logotype, etc. knocked readers, and the ad industry, on their ass."
George Lois – American advertising legend and designer of the iconic covers of Esquire magazine during the 1960s

"Victo Nagai is a young illustrator based in New York; she graduated two years ago from Parsons School of Design with an incredibly accomplished body of work. The influence of Japanese woodcuts combined with a strong narrative style give her work a very distinctive aesthetic. She effortlessly combines traditional, handmade techniques and digital technology to create illustration that reflects her diverse cultural influences. She’s definitely one to watch."
Sarah Mann, curator of the upcoming Pick Me Up print exhibition at the Embankment Galleries, Somerset House

"War and Peace – which is great for printers because it is so bloody long!"
Martha Lane Fox, co-founder of Lastminute.com and the UK’s "Digital Champion"