#Ian Lynam

[jacobwren]

“Over the course of writing this, Kevin and I had a conversation that resulted in him helping to shift my ideological stance in regard to why I am a designer and design teacher. An earlier version of this essay talked about “helping people,” which he really kicked back against. He stated, “I prefer not to use the frame of helping people, though I feel what you’re saying and if it applies to your self-thinking, that’s fine, but with our work, I think of it as working in solidarity with… and an understanding that I’m doing this as much for myself as for others is really important to me.” It was really refreshing for me to hear, but also made me question certain aspects of what the hell I’ve been doing as a designer, teacher, and writer. For some reason, over the past handful of years, I had deluded myself into thinking that I was designing and teaching and writing in order to “help people,” which sounds honourable, but actually articulates a locus of superiority and privilege. Kevin was nice enough not to spell it out for me, but I get what he implied: we don’t need any more self-cast saviour types – there are already enough self-appointed messiahs out in the world.” – Ian Lynam, Debts [From the forward to the book Design against Design: Cause and Consequence of a Dissident Graphic Practice by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo]

[freespiritnews]

Holy smokes we made a book!!!!!!This hefty tome “Realistic Future Nudes and Other Issues: A Free Spirit News Anthology 2012-2021” contains all fourteen issues, including photos, ephemera and other related nonsense. Published in collaboration with Floating World Comics and Container Corps Press, the book should make a wonderful coffee table book, door stop, and a supremely effective bathroom reader.

The Free Spirit News editorial staff includes Joshua Kermiet, Corey Lunn, Raf Spielman, Jeffrey Kriksciun and Eric W. Mast. Thanks to the grants that helped fund this project: The Andy Warhol Foundation (2014) and RACC Make Learn Build Grant (2021). Introduction by Eric Isaacson. Foreword by Ian Lynam.

Order yours here:

[mirandamckenni1]

How America Bought Ireland There's a petrol station in Ireland dedicated to Barack Obama?? That's weird! I wonder why that would be. Patreon: https://ift.tt/r7vANyl Ko-fi: https://ift.tt/zvr8hjK Librapay: https://ift.tt/fjSiQGz Neil's Twitter: https://twitter.com/theleftistcook Sarah's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SariboCook Discord: https://ift.tt/29GUbzL Thank you to our incredibly talented voice readers. Please check out their channels: @JoseMariaLuna @CogitoEdu @HogandDice @lily_lxndr @alexander_avila Becky Cheatle Miles De Wilde (https://ift.tt/Yy0mq4T) Ian Lynam (https://ift.tt/ljRUtz0) Check out some other Irish proverbs at duchas.ie via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE1dGuokz54

[imnothinginparticular]

#finishedbooks War with Myself by Ian Lynam. Aye Ian's latest book is out, such an insane output. They are deceptively long reads something I think just seeing the book on social media doesn't fully show. There are approximately 17 essays beginning appropriately with "Why Write?.” Which is the very same reason why I write these reviews, to simply get these ideas out of my head and organize them out into perhaps ambitious terminology for myself but critical form. Also, I simply just forget if I don’t write it out, but more so simply to learn better through writing things out. This really becomes the theme for the book for me. A lot of these topics in the book he has covered before but with the book here he gives complete contexts...sometimes almost to the point where I get lost in the fascinating contexts. When he finally gets back to the point I will have happily and completely forgotten it lost in all the history he provides. The complete Mingei context relating it to Muji design there after was very informative where I feel I got bits but never a complete context that was very revealing the conclusions he draws in regards to the marketed nationalism and revealingly pretentious way we consume them. I like his essay on the post George Floyd induced decolonization of design. I have seen these books popping up and you can see them in some past reviews that has been a fun read-questioning for me in again the context of design history going away from the academic Eurocentricity. Which is also really dope because Ian essentially is an academic but unlike the connotation is constantly questioning it, which i just love. But in the article he questions the catch phrases "creativity" and creativity’s idiot cousin "innovation" haha. The problem he points is in its vague use while hinting to moral and virtuous good. An unmanned drone is innovation. For me with Apple, Tesla, and all these other "innovative" companies that everyone worships... as long as they are dependent upon those unnamed African and South American workforces then what has really been innovated? It is all suppose to move us forward instead it remains an analog racist exploitation. So when I always hear it design terms etc I whence with this in mind and glad I found it in the context of his decolonization of design essay. Plenty of gems in this book, seriously DM him for a copy.

[bronva]

‘Call me Wrighty!’ – Ian Wright aims dig at Des Lynam following bizarre criticism of Laura Woods

‘Call me Wrighty!’ – Ian Wright aims dig at Des Lynam following bizarre criticism of Laura Woods

Woods was backed by her colleague ‘Wrighty’ (Picture: Getty) Ian Wright appeared to hit back at Des Lynam following criticism of Laura Woods, urging his friend and colleague to refer to him as ‘Wrighty’. Woods, who is fronting ITV’s World Cup coverage, was slammed by Lynam in his column for the Daily Telegraph, bizarrely taking offence over her friendly rapport with the Arsenal legend.   The…

[ianlynam]

Thank you to @vcfalibrary for assembling the Ian Lynam Collection, a collection of categorized zines, comics, books, oddball publications, & graphic design/subcultural ephemera that I’ve donated to the Gary Library over the past decade-plus. I feel so honored. (at Montpelier, Vermont) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClBI7wxruQ5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[garadinervi]

Akogare 憧れ, LogoArchive Extra Issue 4, Edited by Richard Baird, Designed by Hugh Miller, Essay by Ian Lynam & Iori Kikuchi, Published by BP&O, Printed by Identity Print, 2020. Paper: Takeo Tela & Takeo Pachica

[quixoticclown]

Pics of me telling my lil neurodivergent jokes that happen to be hells aesthetic

[drawdownbooks]

Coloring Inside the Lines. Coloring Outside the Lines. / Available at www.draw-down.com / A zine for the impending graphic design graduate. Designer and author Ian Lynam provides a sorely needed, eminently readable handbook that provides practical advice for identifying potential employers; job hunting; writing emails to folks you want to work for; portfolios; CVs; interviews; sex; crime; and self-doubt. In essence, all of the things they don’t teach you in school. #graphicdesign #typography #graduate #handbook

[myfontz]

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[yacht]

The original YACHT logo, designed with Ian Lynam, symbolized our intention to always anchor our work in love. We've rescued two dozen heart anchor logo tees from our archive and bleach-dyed them by hand. The look is very summery, in a subtle creamy off-white and white swirl. American Apparel tees in both "women's" and "men's" sizes—see photos to behold the difference in silhouette. Limited sizes available. Free shipping within the USA. 100% of the sales of this very much out-of-print tee will benefit Summaeverythang Community Center, which provides organic produce box donations to communities in Watts and South Central Los Angeles: summaeverythang.org

[eiginleiki]

Ian Lynam Design

[jarrettfuller]

On this week's episode of my podcast, Scratching the Surface, I have a great and wide-ranging conversation with Ian Lynam. Ian runs his own design studio, teaches at multiple schools, writes for magazines like Idea and Slanted, and runs a boutique type foundry and online shop. In this conversation, Ian and I talk about his early interest in writing and designing zines, the state of design discourse and the problems with the sort of design writing you find on sites like Medium today as well as the role of writing in his own practice and how he teaches design theory to his students.

I've long enjoyed Ian's work and writing and was looking forward to talking to him for some time. This was a fun conversation and one that got me thinking about all sorts of new things. I hope you enjoy it!

[gdbot]

GET READY 2019! Start Somewhere by Ian Lynam / Available at... http://bit.ly/2VmQXuM

[scratchingthesurfacefm]

113. Craig Mod

Craig Mod is a writer, photographer, and designer based in Japan. He’s written extensively about books, publishing, walking, and technology for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Medium. He also publishes two newsletters, Roden and Ridgeline, and hosts On Margins, a podcast about making books. In this episode, Jarrett and Craig talk about his background as a designer and programmer, the evolution of his own writing and where he’d like to take it, and taking the longview in all of his work.

Show Notes:

Craig Mod

@craigmod

GF1 Field Test — 16 Days in Himalayas

iA

Web Design is 95% Typography - Oliver Reichenstein

Books in the age of the iPad

Sharka Hyland

Edward Tufte

Robert Bringhurst

Art Space Tokyo

39. Ian Lynam | Scratching the Surface

Hitotoki: Narrative Mapping the World

Designer Fund

Dept. of Speculation - Jenny Offill

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays - Alexander Chee

Tokyo Neapolitan: The New Wave of Japanese Pizza

The 'Future Book' is Here, but it's not what we Expected

George Nakashima

Teju Cole

Sam Anderson

George Saunders

The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald

Martha Gelhorn

The Incendiaries - R.O. Kwon

What Belongs to You - Garth Greenwell

My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh's Otherworldly Ficion - Ariel Levy

Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi - Hayden Herrera

The Noguchi Museum

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