I have a new essay on the work of Japanese editorial designer Yukimasa Matsuda in the new issue of Idea- #349.

Matsuda is one of my absolute favorite writers and designers and I’m really excited to have been able to contribute writing about his canon of work to the greater corpus of design writing.

I also edited essays about Shoji Ohtomo, Masaru Uchida and Joost Grootens for the new issue.

Leaving in a few hours for the U.S. for an exhibition in Portland and lectures in Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Updated lectures dates, times and locations follow!

“Space Is The Place”
Graphic Design by Ian Lynam
Land Gallery, Portland, Oregon

Opens Friday, October 7, 2011 at 5pm

Runs through October 30, 2011

The show’s a selection of work from the past 12 years of graphic design, featuring a bevy of poster designs, music packaging, book design, broadcast design and animation and tons of odds and ends. 1,000 zine-style catalogs will be given away at the exhibition that features recent writing and some more fun/experimental assignments from the design classes I teach to balance out the design work.

Land Gallery, located in the historic Mississippi Neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, features new, original work from a fantastic stable of upcoming and established independent artists.

For any more information on Land or for preview images for this show, please contact: Pat Castaldo @ 503-477-5704 or gallery@landpdx.com

Land

3925 N Mississippi Ave

Portland, OR 97227 USA
Landpdx.com

LECTURES

A mini-barrage of lectures on Japanese typography, recent projects, writing on graphic design, and the state of Design in Japan today.

• October 4, 5PM at CalArts (California Institute of the Arts), Valencia, CA Room A100
• October 5, 5PM at Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA Ahmanson Building, 6th Floor
• October 6, 12PM at Portland State University, Portland, OR Show & Tell Lecture Series, PSU Art Annex – Room 160, 1990 SW 5th Ave, Rm. 160
• October 10, 7PM at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CARoom GC-4, Graduate Building, SF Campus

Facebook link for all events here.

Two new posters out in the Poster Initiative series: one solo and one with artist Bwana Spoons. Above: solo. Below: mit Bwana.

New installment in the Poster Initiative series- this time a collaboration between myself and artist Bwana Spoons. Bwana drew a series of cats in hats and I collaged together a series of drawings of moles with wings. Printed in 2 spot colors.

Latest self-initiated poster in the Poster Initiative series. An abstract composition using found and drawn/generated imagery. Printed with 3 spot colors.

This is a title treatment I did a bit ago for a new short film starring pal Jai West of Survive Style 5+ fame. Coming to the big screen soon…

Wordshape fonts featured in Extensis’ latest extension of its WebINK web font service. Exciting!

New essay for Néojaponisme about early Japanese Modernism and how the design of promotions for Onitsuka Tiger fits into the continuum of Japanese design history.

I wrote a new essay for Néojaponisme about early Japanese Modernism and how the design of promotions for Onitsuka Tiger fits into the continuum of Japanese design history.

A set of the two label designs I did for Whisk-e last year. You can obtain the whiskeys here for a stunningly affordable price. The 13-year Bowmore is delightful, in particular. To have designed packaging for something of this quality is mind-boggling to me.