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
HyoJun
Shim
It's not unique to Korea; a one-sided relationship has no future, so please work with people who respect and acknowledge each other's value.
Patryk
Hardziej
In Poland after World War II, many designers were active in creating graphic symbols. Due to specific political conditions, these projects could be much more free and artistic than in the West. Besides the Polish poster, it is the graphic symbol that is particularly noteworthy when it comes to design in Poland.
Yui
Takada
The typsetting is unique. The ability to use hiragana, katakana, kanji, and alphanumeric characters in both vertical and horizontal writing is, we feel, unique in Japanese design culture.
Ian
Lynam
There are three different reading directions for typeset Japanese!