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!

New shirt design for Blunt Mechanic (ex-Kind of Like Spitting). The vikings from the World Record album cover make an appearance in yellow, white, grey, and black on a lime green shirt.

Pick up a shirt here.

Now out: A Guide To Picking Locks Volume Two, published by Crimethinc. I designed a snazzy two-color cover for this second volume, picking up where I left off with Volume One.

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.

Also new:

I have a handful of projects featured in the new Choi’s Gallery Magazine.

New shirts out for Blunt Mechanic.

Also new: Migraine, my decade-dead publishing imprint resurfaced from the grave this month to release an illicit edition of Al Burian’s comic Al Burian Goes To Hell. All I can say is that I was responsible for the design, and that I hope Al doesn’t kick my teeth in.

Now out: A Guide To Picking Locks Volume Two, published by Crimethinc. I designed a snazzy two-color cover for this second volume, picking up where I left off with Volume One.