Speaker: Ian Lynam | Associate Professor of Graphic Design, Temple University Japan

Moderator: Benoit Hardy-Chartrand | Senior Lecturer Temple University Japan & ICAS Faculty Fellow

Overview:

“At Home & Abroad” (or “From Kirin to Casa Brutus”)

This presentation examines the history of a few Japanese graphic designers whose enduring work has helped shape our notion of Japanese design and visual culture over the past century. It is also an oddly elliptical story that shows the historical connections between the posters in izakaya today that were originally designed in the 1920s to lifestyle magazines that help define Japanese pop culture today.

Ian Lynam works at the intersection of graphic design, design education and design research. He is faculty at Temple University Japan. He operates the Tokyo design studio Ian Lynam Design and the type foundry Wordshape, working across identity, typography, and interior design. Ian writes for IDEA (JP), Modes of Criticism (PT/UK), Slanted (DE) and has published a number of books about design, including Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875–1975.  More: ianlynam.com