Ian Lynam Livres

How to write about your work--an expert's guide to the craft Ian Lynam's The Impossibility of Silence is a book for artists, photographers and designers interested in approaching writing about their vocation and culture. Drawing upon decades of experience as a writer, designer, artist and teacher, Lynam offers up a plethora of inspirational and concrete approaches to writing about creative fields. Called "the Hunter S. Thompson of design writing," Lynam uses his industry knowledge to convey his philosophy on writing specifically in a professional creative setting. Ian Lynam (born 1972) is faculty and former co-chair at Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA Graphic Design program. He writes for Idea, Slanted and Modes of Criticism, is a cofounder of the online journal Néojaponisme and the associated print journal NJP, runs Wordshape, a hybrid type foundry, and is one-half of Corinthians, a Tokyo-based art and design curatorial practice.

How to write on your art: a guidebook for artists, designers and photographers.Despite the seemingly common expectation that art should be able to speak for itself, creators are often asked to explain the process behind their work, their experiences in their vocation, and, perhaps most dauntingly, the meaning conveyed by any particular piece. Drawing upon his own unique career trajectory across multiple fields as a writer, designer and teacher, Tokyo-based artist Ian Lynam offers readers a variety of approaches to writing about creative fields.Called “the Hunter S. Thompson of design writing,” Lynam uses his industry knowledge and sharp sense of humor to convey his philosophy on writing specifically in a professional creative setting. This volume is not so much a straightforward how-to guide on how to write an artist’s statement as it is an honest meditation on how difficult―and how important―it is for creators to have the facilities to articulate the ethos behind their own work. Lynam encourages readers to think of the blank page as another sort of canvas, a space of potential, a landscape on which an artist may explore themselves and their work farther than they thought possible. Lynam provides both inspirational text as a jumping-off point for readers as well as concrete techniques in terms of craft.

"Ian Lynam is the Hunter S. Thompson of design writing." -Sereina Rothenberger A personal book about material anxiety in creative work, The Failed Painter discusses singular and multiple production processes, perfectibility and imperfectability in times of virtual surface, and hunger for authenticity. Writing in the persona of the titular "failed painter," Ian Lynam, author of The Impossibility of Silence: Writing for Designers, Artists & Photographers (2021), directly addresses design practitioners by calling them to investigate how the material components of their practice are sourced, delving into everything from the labor conditions of manufacturers to the intricate processes of production and distribution. Lynam grounds his investigation in the day-to-day with a collection of essays on design and art spanning culture, race, nation and sheer vandalism. This highly curated yet various assortment of approachable writing on aesthetics touches on space exploration, mercenaries, puberty, instant nostalgia, precarious labor and, of course, zombies.

"WAR WITH MYSELF" is a wide-ranging collection of essays spanning design, authenticity, Empire, decolonisation, and history. Hot on the heels of his books The Impossibility of Silence: Writing for Designers, Artists & Photographers and The Failed Painter (or Unchained by Material Anxiety), designer, writer and teacher Ian Lynam’s latest body of work is an urgent and impassioned examination of the contemporary condition.

TOTAL ARMAGEDDON behandelt Design, Kultur und Komplexität sowie den Umgang der globalen Zivilisation mit Themen wie Science Fiction, Social Media, Ästhetik und Big Tech. Es ist eine Sammlung herausragender Essays aus früheren Ausgaben von Slanted Magazin und neuen Texten, verfasst von bedeutenden internationalen Stimmen in Design und Kultur, darunter Steven Heller, Piotr Rypson und Yoon Soo Lee. Das Buch feiert 15 Jahre unabhängiger Verlagsarbeit und vereint die besten Autoren und Essays aus 32 Ausgaben des Magazins. Die Finanzierung über Kickstarter hat das Publikum in den kreativen Prozess einbezogen, um eine Veröffentlichung für treue Leser und neue Designenthusiasten zu schaffen. TOTAL ARMAGEDDON umfasst Beiträge von zahlreichen Autoren, darunter Can Altay, Eran Bacharach, Simon Baker und viele mehr, die verschiedene Perspektiven und Einsichten zu aktuellen Themen bieten. Die Essays reflektieren die Vielfalt und Komplexität der heutigen Design- und Kulturlandschaft und laden die Leser ein, über den Einfluss von Ästhetik und Technologie auf unsere Gesellschaft nachzudenken.