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Ian Lynam (born 1972, Averill Park, New York) is a contemporary graphic designer, writer, critic, teacher and design historian. Lynam graduated from Portland State University in 2002 with a BS in Graphic Design and from California Institute of the Arts in 2004 where he studied under Edward Fella, Jeffery Keedy, Gail Swanlund, Michael Worthington, and Louise Sandhaus.

Lynam moved to Tokyo in 2005 and established the design studio Ian Lynam Design. His commercial design practice includes the interior graphic design of Google’s Tokyo offices and YouTube Space Tokyo, and the identity for the Apple-acquired Topsy Labs. Lynam designed the identity for Portland restaurants Le Pigeon, Little Bird and Canard. With collaborator Craig Mod, he created the first webfont integration demonstration page for Mozilla in 2009. He has been a regular contributor to the German design magazine Slanted from issue 11 in 2010 onward with his writing appearing in nearly every issue since. He has been a regular contributor to Japanese graphic design magazine IDEA since 2005 and was featured in a 32-page feature in IDEA #385.

He is the author of numerous books and publications about graphic design including Cannibals, Parting It Out, Start Somewhere, The Thing, Visual Strategies for the Apocalypse, and Total Armageddon. Lynam was a designer at Plazm, the art director and designer of Rap-Up, and a regular contributor to PingMag, Japan’s first design blog. Lynam is a co-founder of Néojaponisme alongside author W. David Marx. He writes for the design journal Modes of Criticism.

He has taught at Temple University, Japan Campus since 2009. He joined Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA in Graphic Design Program in 2012 and has served as Faculty, Chair, and Co-Chair. Lynam has been faculty at Meme Design School in Tokyo since 2013 and was appointed Visiting Critic at CalArts in 2019. Lynam is also a type designer and operates the type foundry and publishing house Wordshape.