I have some work in the latest issue of RRR.

My essay “With A Spatula in Her Hand” was just published on the website for Modes of Criticism, a new design criticism magazine. I will have another essay in the inaugural print issue, out soon.

PechaKucha Night Tokyo X Tokyo Design Week just finished up a few days ago – one of the biggest PechaKucha events ever! 1,000 folks hanging out and listening to presentations by designers from all over the world.

For us, one of the most exciting things was seeing our logo design for PechaKucha Night projected h-u-u-u-u-ge across the interior of a geodesic dome.

R. Buckminster Fuller is one of our heroes and the geodesic dome one of the most appealing structures in architecture, so to have our design applied to one, even a temporary one, was fantasic.

Photos by the amazing Michael Holmes Photo.

I designed a new “wire” variant on the YACHT logo for Jona and Claire today for the band’s tenth anniversary, oddly enough occuring on my 40th birthday. Flyer below not by me.

Our new ad campaign for NASA and The Washington County Museum launched this month. Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe opens on November 17.

We’ve been knee deep in a fair amount of identity work lately, as well. We crafted up a logo and identity system for Michael Holmes Photo of Tokyo.

Just finished, as well, is the identity and environmental design for Le Comptoir Occitan, a new Basque restaurant in Daikanyama within Hillside Terrace. More photos coming soon.

I won an Asia Pacific Design Award again. Whoo! And I didn’t even pick myself!

Some exciting news: I am joining the faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts, teaching in their MFA graphic design program as of October. The university is a low-residency program and I’ll be teaching both in Vermont and from home base in Tokyo.

Japanese Graphic Design: Not in Production, a new piece of design criticism I wrote has been posted at Néojaponisme. It will be followed by six supplementary posts showing the best that Japanese contemporary graphic design has to offer.

One small, subtle design change has been added to our website, but one that is huge and took a whole lot of work: ianlynam.com is now bilingual in English and Japanese.

Giant thanks to Yamane-san for plowing through miles of project translations, consulting with us on arcane typographic terms and just generally being amazing. Equally gigantic thanks to Yuki for collecting project text, editing through the sweaty summer, coordinating the whole project and making it all go smoothly. Go team!!!

宜しく!

One of the most exciting projects we’ve been working on as of late is developing the identity and user interface/user experience for Videogram, a brand spanking new integrated iOS app and web app created by the amazing team at Cinemacraft.

Videogram allows you to convert your personal iOS video, YouTube and Vimeo videos to interactive sequential art (comics!). Videos become sequences of still which you can click through to view video.

Revolutionary stuff, debuting this weekend at TechCrunch in San Francisco!

Working on Videogram has been an amazing iterative process – nothing is written in stone and everything is up for grabs!