I co-edited and contributed a few essays to Idea Magazine‘s new feature about New Wave/PostPunk independent publications, on newsstands any day now…

One is called “Dot Gain” and is an introduction to independent publications in the late 70s and the early 80s.

The second is a hybrid essay/interview with WET magazine founder Leonard Koren about WET and his life and times.

Special thanks to Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein for their assistance in researching the essay!

Just did a quickie project for the notorious Tokyo Art Beat: some quick OpenType scripting to swap out lining numerals for non-lining numerals in their house font.

An oldie but a goodie: my typeface Rubber Vloeren in use in a commercial by Brand New School for the American National Pork Board circa years ago. See it here.

I have a whole heap of writing in the new issue of Slanted Magazine. My dear friend and roomie Patrick Tsai is featured, as well.

My latest deck graphic for Lesque just came out- it’s Junichi Arahata’s latest pro model. In use: my font Pompeian Cursive.

I received a few samples of recent projects done by Bruce Brand of the fabulous Arthole in the mail- excellent examples of my Wordshape fonts in use! Bruce has done tons of great design work for folks like Wreckless Eric, The Whites Stripes, Thee Headcoats, The Darkness and others.

Fancy new signage by Joshu+Vela.

Ages ago I designed a tee shirt for the British clothing startup Yutaka Tajima and it just saw the light of day here.

Thanks to Bob and the team for making it happen.

Also, we recently designed, animated and produced a small promotional screencast-based video for myGengo, an exciting Tokyo-based startup which has an exciting track record of providing really amazing human-based translation services. You can see the animation here.

Big thanks to Hiroto, Lisa, Matt and the myGengo team!

(And seriously, use them for translation.)

You can see a recent PechaKucha Night lecture I did about Cuban lettering here.

For the month of March, my new typeface family SmytheSans is on sale over at MyFonts- get the entire family for only $120 instead of the usual $300.

I have some work in the new book chronicling the shifting identity of Yutaka Tajima, a small British apparel concern run by Sanderson Bob (ex-The Designers Republic) and friends.

Do you enjoy reading about graphic design? Then, boy, do I have a treat for you!

Until they’re gone, essentially, I’ll send you a copy of The Space Is The Place Supplement – my 52-page booklet of writing about design, aesthetics and architecture for free- you just have to pony up the cost of postage (¥200 in Japan, $3.00 internationally via Paypal to ian@ianlynam.com).

The booklet was printed in an edition of 1,000 using a gradated split-fountain technique, creating gradated printing throughout. 500 were printed with fluorescent green cover stock and 500 with fluorescent yellow cover stock.

Within, you’ll find writing on the work of designer Kiyoshi Awazu, Japanese Modernism, Arcosanti and a fair amount of other concerns.