Designers in Seoul
Designers in Tokyo
Designers in Taipei
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Motto
I came for love and I stayed for the food... then I found love again.
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
Michal
Piernikowski
Polish design consistently marks its presence on global markets, combining diferent perspectives that reflects the cultural context of Poland, while perfectly adapting to the expectations of customers from all over the world. Today polish design not only draws on its history and regional motifs, creatively reinterpreting patterns from the past, but also develops by embracing new values like: innovation, responsibility, resourcefulness, locality, and nostalgia.
Miroslaw
Klis
In the world of graphic design Poland is known for Polish School of Posters active in 1950s-1980s with expressive solutions based mainly on illustration. In the last years we finally started discovering the unknown heritage in logo design and typography with great masters such as Karol Śliwka, Ryszard Bojar and many more.
Jakub
Kozniewski
We're getting there.
Oksana
Shmygol
While the most known and celebrated inspirations from the Polish graphic design history is the 1950-80s Polish School of Posters, there is also a less known history of great logo design and typography, which we only started discovering recently. Nowadays Poland has amazing and internationally renowned designers in different fields - illustration, branding, typography and more. The community of professionals - individual designers and studios - is strong and friendly, we learn from each other and give each other advice, but also consciously build market standards together.