Coloring Inside the Lines. Coloring Outside the Lines.⁣ Available at www.draw-down.com⁣ ⁣ A zine for the impending graphic design graduate. Designer and author Ian Lynam provides a sorely needed, eminently readable handbook that provides practical advice for identifying potential employers; job hunting; writing emails to folks you want to work for; portfolios; CVs; interviews; sex; crime; and self-doubt. In essence, all of the things they don’t teach you in school. ⁣ ⁣ #graphicdesign #typography #graduate #handbook #IanLynam (at Tokyo, Japan) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8qzzLYnVzx/?igshid=1r6xn6rgym82a

The Thing: ⁣ The Opposite of Solving Design Problems⁣ Available at www.draw-down.com⁣⁣ ⁣ A booklet about Things—Things we’ve designed, designed Things that we have inherited, and Things that are so woven into our societies and cultures that we cannot extricate Them. The Thing is about the problematics of design, designers, and design history. Lovingly offset printed and screen printed in a mix of three colors, The Thing mixes graphic design history, memoir, object studies, dismembered limbs, virgin tears, and blood sacrifice applied to some of the silkiest Japanese papers available. Topics include Vikings; Netflix binge-watching as a metaphor for lived experience; problematic relationships with objects; earthquakes which became firestorms; which then claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people; Japanese graphic design history; picking locks; secrets behind the art of editing; nostalgia; guilt, and shame. ⁣ ⁣ #IanLynam #DesignProblems #designhistory (at Tokyo, Japan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Byz2RQjHy44/?igshid=18n4p2rno6oyb

Visual Strategies for the Apocalypse⁣ Available at www.draw-down.com ⁣ ⁣ A zine about overcoming what author (and graphic designer) Ian Lynam terms “Creative Constipation.” Lynam writes “The act of making can feel largely irrelevant, especially for those of us who make visual form professionally. Maybe you've felt this way, but quite possibly not. I wrote this booklet for those of us who have ever felt stuck, because somehow, it can feel like The Apocalypse... Doomsday. Ragnarok. Armageddon. (Or at least for me it has on occasion.)” Visual Strategies for the Apocalypse gets past that by examining why and how the visual form is defined and dealt with, as well as how we might re-engage ourselves with it. Topics include: the relationship between Big Tech and child labor; the even more complicated relationship between fast fashion and Thor, god of Thunder; space, time, and selfishness; contrast, cropping, and partying; chance processes; imitation, flattery, history, and desktop publishing; collage as strategy; the function of drawing; ornament, and making things up. With contributions from leading designers and design educators: Matthew Scott Barnes, Natalia Ilyin, Nikki Juen, Yoon Soo Lee, Matthew Monk, David Peacock, Michael Scaringe, and Lorena Howard-Sheridan, along with Laura Bernstein, James Chae, Taylor Giali, James Hultquist-Todd of JTD Type, James Edmondson of Oh No Type Co, visual artist Griffin McPartland, Adolf Loos and the late Koichi Sato.⁣ ⁣ #IanLynam #Creative #making #VisualStrategies⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bypk1DFnYDt/?igshid=1nfn08jw6iewr

Start Somewhere⁣ Available at www.draw-down.com⁣ ⁣ "Start Somewhere: A Handbook of Dubious Exercises, Tips and Rants About Becoming a Designer Who Writes" is designed as a friendly guide for designers grappling with generating their own content. This zine is about how to write and most importantly, how to get started. Includes fourteen hybrid design and writing exercises, numerous helpful tips, and many illustrations. ⁣ ⁣ #graphicdesign #typography #IanLynam #designwriting https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxrrqh1nVEh/?igshid=1qm7do5qbbjhl

Last day to save 10% on EVERYTHING! Use code: “NEEDTHIS” — Start Somewhere by Ian Lynam / Available at draw-down.myshopify.com / "Start Somewhere: A Handbook of Dubious Exercises, Tips and Rants About Becoming a Designer Who Writes" is designed as a friendly guide for designers grappling with generating their own content. This zine is about how to write and most importantly, how to get started. Includes fourteen hybrid design and writing exercises, numerous helpful tips, and many illustrations. Published by Wordshape, 2016. 76 pages #graphicdesign #typography #IanLynam #designwriting #writer #guide #zine #StartSomewhere #StartToday https://www.instagram.com/p/BuSK51-H55D/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jbi98xabyixt

Save 10% on EVERYTHING! Code: GIFTME / Start Somewhere by Ian Lynam / Available at www.draw-down.com / “Start Somewhere: A Handbook of Dubious Exercises, Tips and Rants About Becoming a Designer Who Writes” is designed as a friendly guide for designers grappling with generating their own content. This zine is about how to write and most importantly, how to get started. Includes fourteen hybrid design and writing exercises, numerous helpful tips, and many illustrations. Published by Wordshape, 2016. 76 pages #graphicdesign #typography #IanLynam #designwriting #writer #guide #zine #StartSomewhere #StartToday (at Tokyo, Japan) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrAWpQ7AH9v/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=df4vrxfgwrtq

Back in Stock! Start Somewhere by Ian Lynam / Available at draw-down.myshopify.com / "Start Somewhere: A Handbook of Dubious Exercises, Tips and Rants About Becoming a Designer Who Writes" is designed as a friendly guide for designers grappling with generating their own content. This zine is about how to write and most importantly, how to get started. Includes fourteen hybrid design and writing exercises, numerous helpful tips, and many illustrations. Published by Wordshape, 2016. 76 pages #graphicdesign #typography #IanLynam #designwriting #writer #guide #zine #StartSomewhere #StartToday

Start Somewhere by Ian Lynam / Available at draw-down.myshopify.com / "Start Somewhere: A Handbook of Dubious Exercises, Tips and Rants About Becoming a Designer Who Writes" is designed as a friendly guide for designers grappling with generating their own content. This zine is about how to write and most importantly, how to get started. Includes fourteen hybrid design and writing exercises, numerous helpful tips, and many illustrations. Published by Wordshape, 2016. 76 pages #graphicdesign #typography #IanLynam #designwriting #writer #guide #zine #StartSomewhere #StartToday https://www.instagram.com/p/BoZAHphhayo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1voxek7a9664z