I wrote the first essay in the book, called “Uemura Shoen: The Pine that Stands Alone yet Which is One of Many”. The essay is a biography of Uemura Shōen 上村松園 (1875–1949), an artist, illustrator, and occasional graphic designer.

I am happy that my writing is included among design historians whose work I incredibly respect and enjoy, such as Tasheka Arceneaux Sutton, Margo Halverson, and Stephan Rosger. Women Graphic Designers was generously initiated and edited by designer, design educator, and design historian Elizabeth Resnick.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/women-graphic-designers-9781350349261/

Fracture was just written up over at the Slanted blog. Check it out here: https://www.slanted.de/slanted-fracture-japanese-graphic-design-1875-1975/

I was interviewed about the Fracture exhibition and book in Design Week. Read it here: https://www.designweek.co.uk/new-show-tells-a-more-inclusive-story-about-japanese-graphic-design/

A very sweet writeup of Fracture—both the book and exhibition—in Creative Bloq!

Read it here: https://www.creativebloq.com/design/graphic-design/im-dangerously-obsessed-with-this-japanese-graphic-design-book

Really lovely writeup of the Fracture book from @setmargins and exhibition at @ultrasupernew in @creativereview !!!

Read it here: https://www.creativereview.co.uk/fracture-japanese-graphic-design-ian-lynam/

I was just interviewed by @thedailyheller about Fracture as both book and exhibition at @ultrasupernew . Within, Steven Heller and I speak in-depth about *why* Japanese graphic design looks the way that it does, my Japanese Graphic Design History class at @templeunivjapan , why exactly the book covers the century that it does, what I’m referring to by “fracture”, and a ton more!

Check it out here: https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-japanese-designs-schizophrenic-place-in-history/

Fracture reviewed in JAGDA’s GDR Books section: https://gdr.jagda.or.jp/articles/82/

Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875–1975 was reviewed in Eye no. 108!

I have a new essay “The Syntax of Seeming Destruction” in the latest issue of Slanted devoted to experimental type and typography. Check it out here: https://www.slanted.de/experimental-type-3-0/

Folks keep asking me about the process of putting together my new book Fracture, so I wrote an essay about it which you can read here: https://medium.com/@ianlynam/i-blame-the-sun-the-making-of-a-book-about-japanese-design-history-ee6de726181b