Designers in Seoul
Designers in Tokyo
Designers in Taipei
Column Four
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Japan
Ian
Lynam
Design
Design Research
Bio
Ian Lynam works at the intersection of graphic design, design education and design research.
He is faculty at Temple University Japan, as well as at Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA in Graphic Design Program. He operates the Tokyo design studio Ian Lynam Design, working across identity, typography, and design research.
Ian writes for IDEA (JP), Modes of Criticism (PT/UK), Slanted (DE) and has published a number of books about design.
Clients
DOTA2 typeface design, Google Tokyo interior graphics, Nestle typeface design, Ovice corporate identity, Impossibility of Silence: Writing for Designers, Artists & Photographers book, Icelandic corporate identity
Awards
STA100, D&AD, Asia Pacific Design Awards, VH1 HipHop Honors, Mead Show
More Speakers and Mentors
Yoshiko
Hada
Though this is about illustration, I think there is a tendency to prefer narrative and explanatory elements over visual (graphical ) interest. (But maybe things have changed a bit recently?)
Ian
Lynam
There are three different reading directions for typeset Japanese!
Jan
Diehl-Michalowski
In Poland, design is still in the development phase and there is currently no one specific dominant style characteristic only of our country. Until recently, we were trying to design correctly, and now we are looking at how to design incorrectly.
Lars
Harmsen
Many people think we Germans are perfect. What nonsense!