“Space Is The Place”
Graphic Design by Ian Lynam
Land Gallery, Portland, Oregon

Opens Friday, October 7, 2011 at 5pm

Runs through October 30, 2011

The show’s a selection of work from the past 12 years of graphic design, featuring a bevy of poster designs, music packaging, book design, broadcast design and animation and tons of odds and ends. 1,000 zine-style catalogs will be given away at the exhibition that features recent writing and some more fun/experimental assignments from the design classes I teach to balance out the design work.

Printing for the poster section of the exhibition was kindly provided by Roland Japan- giant thanks to Shimizu-san and the team!

Lots of things I’ve designed over the years will be available for sale at the show, including a brand new button set, new posters and assorted books and projects.

Land Gallery, located in the historic Mississippi Neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, features new, original work from a fantastic stable of upcoming and established independent artists.

For any more information on Land or for preview images for this show, please contact: Pat Castaldo @ 503-477-5704 or gallery@landpdx.com

Land

3925 N Mississippi Ave

Portland, OR 97227 USA
Landpdx.com

I’ll be doing a brief lecture tour while in the U.S., including lectures at CalArts and Otis in Los Angeles, CCA in San Francisco and PSU in Portland. More information on these lectures shortly.

Photos of the just-ended Arcosanti exhibition at United Bamboo Daikanyama.

雑誌『Too Much』の最新号の目玉記事は、私が執筆したアーコサンティに関する大がかりなエッセイであり、パオロ・ソレリによる図、そして私、私の父ビル・ライナムおよびCedrick Eymenierによる写真が添えられている。

雑誌『Slanted』の最新号に、“Japanese Modernism Reconsidered” (日本のモダニズムの再検討) という新しいエッセイを執筆した。

I wrote a new essay titled “Japanese Modernism Reconsidered” for the latest issue of Slanted Magazine, as well as contributing my latest song and dance about Japanese typography.

You can view The Lean Alternative, a video I shot and edited with music by E*Rock to accompany the release of TOO MUCH Magazine #2 here.

The Arcosanti-themed installation for TOO MUCH Magazine opening was a smash hit. It will be open for one week. Please come down to United Bamboo in Daikanyama and have a look!

I just finished a new 50-page booklet with the unwieldy title “Prototype for an Exhibition Catalog: Recent Writing on Aesthetics with Excessive Footnotes and Some Assignments” for the Tokyo Book Art Week exhibition at Temple University Japan. The book is a collection of recent writings from Slanted Magazine, Too Much Magazine, and a few books, as well as a few as-yet unpublished pieces with some of the homework assignments from my design classes mixed in. As the title denotes, it’s a work-in-progress for my upcoming solo exhibition at Land Gallery in Portland, Oregon in October.

The exhibition will be called “Space Is The Place” and will feature a selection of graphic design work from the past 12 years of professional practice. As I approach design work from a critical perspective comprised of designing, writing and teaching, 1,000 copies of a version of this catalog will be available for free at the gallery.

I’ll have work in the pop-up Megane Zine Shop in the Lumine 2 department store from September 27 through October 31st. Big thanks to Yoshi for inviting me to participate!

Also, I’ll be participating in a group exhibition for Too Much Magazine at United Bamboo in Daikanyama starting on August 26, showing a new short film I shot and directed on Arcosanti, the Arizonan experimental architectural community. The latest issue of Too Much features a fairly massive essay I wrote about Arcosanti accompanied by drawings by Paolo Soleri, photographs by myself, my dad Bill Lynam and Cedrick Eymenier.

Stop the presses! Apparently in 2007, the website we designed for Rap-Up magazine was blessed by VH1 with the “Best Designed Website in HipHop” award via their HipHop Honors awards thingie. Who knew? (Answer: Not me.)

ロサンゼルスのカルバーシティにあるScionのギャラリーで開催された展覧会『Pacific』のカタログの編集を行った。PMKFAおよびアントナン・ゴルチェによって監督されたこの展覧会は、躍進する日本の現代アーティスト達の素晴らしい概要を示す。ここでその全てを確認いただける。

アートそのものも素晴らしいが、このカタログは本物のスラムダンクだと思う。PMKFAによってデザインされた本書は、日本でも最も躍進的な何人かの評論家たちによる記事を含み、中でも最も特筆すべきはキャメロン・アラン・マッキーン氏だ。彼による、アーティスト、坂口恭平の作品に関する長文エッセイ “Down By The River, I Built My Shelter” は、並外れた散文だ。

叱責の域を超えて、執筆者達は孤立行およびハイフネーションに関してアートディレクター、ミッケを取り囲んでしつこく文句を言い、私はスウェーデンで活躍するアーティスト、スズキユウリに関する長文エッセイを寄稿した。

この展覧会に関わったアーティスト達は、伊東篤宏、坂口恭平、松原慈、題府基之、PMKFA、鈴木崇、金氏徹平、Ujino、丹羽陽太郎、スズキユウリであった。