I was interviewed in the inaugural issue of the Task Newsletter along with a bunch of other emigrés.

Identity package for fine artist and educator David Schafer.

Self-titled EP for Kind of Like Spitting.

Brochure design for Tokyo-based travel consulting and publishing group, Bespoke Tokyo.

Published by Pao&Paws in Taiwan, this book is bound in mauve, white, rose, or purple faux-crushed velvet covers. 

Edited and curated by Joshua Berger and Imin Pao

In the age of digital typography a designer has literally thousands of typefaces available to choose from. 30 Essential Typefaces is a book focused on thirty of the most useful and functional typefaces in use today. The typeface selections were arrived at after questioning of design department chairs at RISD, Art Center, Basel, Yale, and St. Martin. In an era where fonts go in and out of style in months not years, these thirty typefaces stand the test of time. 

30 Essential Typefaces collects leading contemporary design examples highlighting the usage of each of the typefaces. Each typeface contains historical information and specimen samples. The examples of usage vary greatly—and at times diverge completely from the type designer’s original intent.

Content includes essays by Cyrus Highsmith, Hank Van Assen, Wolfgang Weingart, Stanley Moss, Akira Kobayashi, and an interview with Matthew Carter. Featured works by Build, Lust, Chris Ashworth, Why Not Associates, Stephen Doyle, Margo Chase, Paul Sahre, Art Chantry, Rebeca Mendez, and others.

Within is also the results of an experiment I did by interpolating and combining all 30 typefaces, refining it into on globby piece of typographic PostScript muck. A brief essay I wrote accompanies the experiment.

Commissioned video piece for Scion’s 2008/2009 Installation tour. See the film here.

Art Space Tokyo acts as your 272 page personal guide and interpreter, connecting you with the neighborhoods and figures behind some of the most inspiring art spaces in this colossal city.

Each of the featured spaces has been rendered as a striking illustration by Nobumasa Takahashi. The book covers art spaces in neighborhoods all over Tokyo.

The neighborhood surrounding each art space has been meticulously mapped with recommendations for the best food, coffee and sights to enjoy in an afternoon of art viewing.

I contributed an essay to this book which discusses graffiti artist Barry McGee’s influence on a generation of young graffiti writers working in Tokyo, and looks at the way in which graffiti articulates the urban environment of Tokyo.

A music video for Portland, Oregon electronic musician Strategy’s song “Lower Macleay” off of his new album, Music for Lamping on Audio Dregs Recordings. View the video here.

Poster for ImPosters, a group show at Gallery Visio, the University of Missouri-St Louis’ art space. The show concept: posters for fake bands playing fake shows.

Mine is for a Misfits-y horror rock band named after the first director of the Bauhaus Design School in Germany, playing a show in the school’s first location.

Music video for Mold Recordings 7″ record release, “Day Ditty” by Craig Wedren & E*Vax. The footage was filmed by my grandfather, Edward Lynam, in the early 1950s. View the video here.