My essay for Art Space Tokyo has found a new home, though one that is innately the same: the new web version of the book that is available for free and optimized for mobile devices, as well as in a number of formats for your downloading pleasure.

You can read my essay “Under the Influence: The Syntax of Tokyo Graffiti”here. The original version of the book’s blurb about my essay: “Designer and author Ian Lynam discusses graffiti artist Barry McGee’s influence on a generation of young graffiti writers working in Tokyo, and looks at the way in which graffiti articulates the urban environment of Tokyo.”

I pitched in on the writing and editing of the definitive monograph of Japanese photographer Masayoshi Sukita, along with Kiyonori Muroga of Idea. Sukita’s work chronicles much of rock and roll history from the late 1960s through today, with a heavy focus on the work of David Bowie, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Joe Strummer and the circle of friends surrounding Jim Jarmusch.

I pitched in on the writing and editing of the definitive monograph of Japanese photographer Masayoshi Sukita, along with Kiyonori Muroga of Idea. Sukita’s work chronicles much of rock and roll history from the late 1960s through today, with a heavy focus on the work of David Bowie, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Joe Strummer and the circle of friends surrounding Jim Jarmusch.

Lovingly designed by HeQuiti Harata, it’s a must-get.

I would like to extend a giant round of thanks to all of the attendees of our lecture on the work of Oswald Bruce “Oz” Cooper at TypeCon in Milwaukee. It was such a tremendous response and so appreciated.

If you’d like a copy of the text that the lecture was based on, you can order a copy of Idea #339 here from Wordshape.

Our studio has created revivals of many of the typefaces covered in the lecture. You can check them out here from Wordshape, here from MyFonts and here from YouWorkFromThem.

Thanks to the Society of Typographic Aficionados and the TypeCon board for having us come present. TypeCon2012 was amazing!

Web design for a book I wrote and self-published in 2008, then forgot to put in the portfolio. Four years later, it still looks really good for a micro-site for a book on obscure topics.

I have a ton of work in the new book Logolicious from HarperCollins.

My recent poster series with Chad Rea for Electricity Showroom is now available via Ecopop.

Trilingual (English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese) corporate identity, stationery and website for France and Taiwan-based art dealership Orsay Fine Arts.

Got a nice little shoutout in Eye Magazine’s blog today. Whoot!

I’ll be doing a piped-in lecture at Otis College of Design on Wednesday at 3pm PST. (Bum rush the show!)