iPhone3G backgrounds based on the Poster Initiative series of prints.

Poster Initiative 001
Poster Initiative 002
Poster Initiative 003
Poster Initiative 004
Poster Initiative 005

To save on iPhone, click the link above to launch the image in a new window. Touch the image and hold your finger until it says “Save Image” contextually appears. Navigate to your Photos on your iPhone, find the image, touch the box-arrow icon next in the bottom left of the screen and select “Use as Wallpaper”.

iPhone4 backgrounds based on the Poster Initiative series of prints.

Poster Initiative 001
Poster Initiative 002
Poster Initiative 003
Poster Initiative 004
Poster Initiative 005

To save on iPhone, click the link above to launch the image in a new window. Touch the image and hold your finger until it says “Save Image” contextually appears. Navigate to your Photos on your iPhone, find the image, touch the box-arrow icon next in the bottom left of the screen and select “Use as Wallpaper”.

iPad backgrounds based on the Poster Initiative series of prints.

Poster Initiative 001
Poster Initiative 002
Poster Initiative 003
Poster Initiative 004
Poster Initiative 005

To save on iPad, click the link above to launch the image in a new window. Touch the image and hold your finger until it says “Save Image” contextually appears. Navigate to your Photos on your iPad, find the image, touch the box-arrow icon next in the bottom left of the screen and select “Use as Wallpaper”.

I’m excited to announce my new signature keitai kisekae/cellphone theme for WKTokyoLab’s mobile device shop. Kisekae are sets of images that users can download to create a holistic theme for their phone.

The theme I created for the TokyoLab music label is called “Utopia” and is based on a music video that I did in collaboration with the Lab folks for NHK a few years ago. It is an animated modular pictorial utopian vision of Tokyo in the future.

The theme is completely animated, with custom-designed icons for battery power and signal strength, a smart display that analyzes the time of day and generates one of four different appropriate images (morning, afternoon, evening, night), mail sending screen, mail receiving screen, incoming and outgoing call screens, typographically considered menus, and a ton more stuff.

In Japan, you can use your phone to browse to this address and download the theme.

Many thanks to Bruce, Yoko, and the WKTokyoLab team for making such a cool project happen!

I have an interview in the new issue of Xerography Debt zine, available via Microcosm.

New cover and inside cover design for the Dreamwhip collection, published by Microcosm.

New poster for Blunt Mechanic, on Barsuk Records

Critical Mass
Compiled by Ian Lynam + Idea magazine

An inquiry into contemporary critical practices in graphic design featuring:
Mark Owens, Zak Kyes, Jon Sueda, Brian Roettinger, Daniel Eatock, Scott Ponik, Michael Worthington, Yasmin Khan, Metahaven

Subterranean Modernism: A Critical Retrospective
By Randy Nakamura + Ian Lynam

On the Uselessness of Design Criticism
by Randy Nakamura

You can pick up a copy here.

New brochure design for the Dill Pickle Club, Portland’s fun culture club!

One podcast I have a particular affinity for is NPR’s Planet Money. They recently had a show about tee shirts, which was basically a giant intro to a pitch to their listeners to participate in a graphic design contest to make, surprise surprise, a Planet Money tee shirt.

This is my submission, which just went out via email to the show.

Above is legendary sumo wrestler Konishiki with the live painting that I made for Whisky Live 2010 at Tokyo Big Sight a few months ago. The big guy and I chatted over a live broadcast for Japanese TV after I interpreted the taste of some Scottish whiskey in painted format for 90 minutes.

Interview coming in the next issue of Whisky Magazine Japan. Thanks to Julia Barnes, Clint Taniguchi, and David and Dave at Whisky Mag!