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

Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design History 1875–1975 was reviewed in The Japan Times by Ray Masaki. Read it here: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/01/04/books/fracture-japanese-graphic-design/

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.