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

I have a new essay in Slanted no. 44, all about typography integrated into fashion.

The essay is called “The Blob, or A Tale of Two Cities”.

It is about a streetwear brand that I started in Portland which failed miserably and Sailosaibin, the shop/clothing brand that Yuki and I do today in Tokyo.

15 years in the making, my book Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875–1975 is available for pre-order now!

We made a trailer for my new book. You can view the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc63GInFDT8. It was shot, directed and edited by Kyle Broyles.

My contributions to Unrealized Archive no. 4 were collected in a print edition from Stripe.

I have a new essay called “Crossed Wires in Slanted no. 42.

It is an essay about books. You can obtain it here: https://www.slanted.de/product/slanted-magazine-42-books/

I contributed what I hope is the first of many retrospectives on the work of Rick Froberg to Idea no. 404 recently.

The 16-page feature contains heaps of Rick’s design work for assorted records, as well as a biographic essay about his life and career. You can obtain a copy here: https://wordshape.com/idea-404-co-creation-between-ai-and-us/

I wrote the preface for the new book Collision by Lars Harmsen, published by Slanted. Check it out here!

I have two new essays in The Nest by Scott Massey.

The Nest is a book about process—the process of designing, and how it changes both what we make and who we are. The Nest is also a book about memory—how memory builds up in layers and influences our experiences, as well as the things we make. The focus of The Nest is a series of posters created in celebration of the exhibition Inside Out & Upside Down: Posters from CalArts 1970–2019. The Nest documents Scott Massey’s use of appropriation, collage, layering and re-working to generate 200 unique and vibrant compositions that each tell a different story about creative discovery. 

Obtain The Nest here.