Three new collaborative posters with copywriter Chad Rea for Electricity Showroom.

Nice new business cards for Joshu + Vela in San Francisco.

A quick update on my lecture tour in the U.S. in early October:

He walks. He talks. He projects his voice and waves his hands around! Glib, incisive commentary 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
• October 5, 5PM at Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
• October 6, 12PM at Portland State University, Portland, OR
• October 10, 7PM at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

“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.

Printing for the poster section of the exhibition was kindly provided by Roland Japan- giant thanks to Shimizu-san and the team!

Lots of things I’ve designed over the years will be available for sale at the show, including a brand new button set, new posters and assorted books and projects.

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

I’ll be doing a brief lecture tour while in the U.S., including lectures at CalArts and Otis in Los Angeles, CCA in San Francisco and PSU in Portland. More information on these lectures shortly.

Photos of the just-ended Arcosanti exhibition at United Bamboo Daikanyama.

The latest issue of Too Much features a fairly massive essay I wrote about Arcosanti accompanied by drawings by Paolo Soleri, photographs by myself, my dad Bill Lynam and Cedrick Eymenier.

I wrote a new essay titled “Japanese Modernism Reconsidered” for the latest issue of Slanted Magazine, as well as contributing my latest song and dance about Japanese typography.

I wrote a new essay titled “Japanese Modernism Reconsidered” for the latest issue of Slanted Magazine, as well as contributing my latest song and dance about Japanese typography.

You can view The Lean Alternative, a video I shot and edited with music by E*Rock to accompany the release of TOO MUCH Magazine #2 here.

The Arcosanti-themed installation for TOO MUCH Magazine opening was a smash hit. It will be open for one week. Please come down to United Bamboo in Daikanyama and have a look!