“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!

I just finished a new 50-page booklet with the unwieldy title “Prototype for an Exhibition Catalog: Recent Writing on Aesthetics with Excessive Footnotes and Some Assignments” for the Tokyo Book Art Week exhibition at Temple University Japan. The book is a collection of recent writings from Slanted Magazine, Too Much Magazine, and a few books, as well as a few as-yet unpublished pieces with some of the homework assignments from my design classes mixed in. As the title denotes, it’s a work-in-progress for my upcoming solo exhibition at Land Gallery in Portland, Oregon in October.

The exhibition will be called “Space Is The Place” and will feature a selection of graphic design work from the past 12 years of professional practice. As I approach design work from a critical perspective comprised of designing, writing and teaching, 1,000 copies of a version of this catalog will be available for free at the gallery.

I’ll have work in the pop-up Megane Zine Shop in the Lumine 2 department store from September 27 through October 31st. Big thanks to Yoshi for inviting me to participate!

Also, I’ll be participating in a group exhibition for Too Much Magazine at United Bamboo in Daikanyama starting on August 26, showing a new short film I shot and directed on Arcosanti, the Arizonan experimental architectural community. 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.

Stop the presses! Apparently in 2007, the website we designed for Rap-Up magazine was blessed by VH1 with the “Best Designed Website in HipHop” award via their HipHop Honors awards thingie. Who knew? (Answer: Not me.)

I edited the catalog for the exhibition Pacific at Scion’s gallery in Culver City in Los Angeles. Curated by PMKFA and Antonin Gaultier, the exhibition is a great overview of emerging Japanese contemporary artists. Read all about it here.

While the art itself is great, I think the catalog is a real slam-dunk. Designed by PMKFA, the book features writing by some of the best emerging critics in Japan, most notably Cameron Allan McKean. His lengthy essay on the work of artist Kyohei Sakaguchi, “Down By The River, I Built My Shelter”, is an exceptional piece of prose.

Beyond berating the writers involved and nagging art director Micke about widows and hyphenation, I contributed a lengthy essay on the work of Sweden-based artist Yuri Suzuki.

The artists involved in the exhibition are:
Atsuhiro Ito, Kyohei Sakaguchi, Megumi Matsubara, Motoyuki Daifu, PMKFA, Takashi Suzuki, Teppei Kaneuji, Ujino, Yotaro Niwa and Yuri Suzuki.

The official blurb about the exhibition:
“Cutting through the layers of reality and challenging the notion of what most of us consider as “everyday”, Pacific brings together ten artists that give their interpretation on what many ignore in the rush from point A to B or simply don’t see. In Pacific, the audience is invited to witness how; the mundane transforms the poetic; the unwanted morphs into the amusing and the practical ends up as the beautiful.”