This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th
International Symposium on Graph Drawing, GD 2010, held in Konstanz,
Germany, during September 2010.
The 30 revised full papers presented together with 5 revised short and 8
poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions.
The volume also contains a detailed report about the 17th Annual Graph
Drawing Contest, held as a satellite event of GD 2010. Devoted both to
theoretical advances as well as to implemented solutions, the papers are
concerned with the geometric representation of graphs and networks and
are motivated by those applications where it is crucial to visualize
structural information as graphs.