Liminal: An Examination of Graffiti in Tokyo

I recently self-published a 32 page zine that covers the scope of Tokyo street graffiti to coincide with a lecture I did recently for the Artalking series of contemporary art gatherings in Tokyo.

The zine features an illustrated essay in English about Tokyo graffiti while simultaneously operating as a sort of "birdwatching guide" to help readers identify different graffiti writers' work.

Liminal was printed in an edition of 125 and each is hand-numbered. You can pick one up for $12.00 postpaid (shipping included) via Paypal to ian(at)ianlynam.com or email me.

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Brand New Wood Type

How often do you get to say something like that? Matthew Carter designed Carter Latin, his first wood type back in 2002 and it has taken this long for the Hamilton Wood Type Museum to manufacture it. The process was recently accelerated by increased sophistication in laser cutting technology. The big unveiling happens November 20-22 at the Wayzgoose Weekend, a gathering of wood type aficionados.

More info here.

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Can I just say Kay Rosen is awesome?

No props in type circles (that I have seen) until this feature in iDN.
I am humbled to have work in the same issue.

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The Potential of Web Typography

Firefox 3.5 is out now- go get that sucker!

The Mozilla Japan team asked that Craig Mod and I jointly write and design this demo page of what is now possible using Firefox's new @font-face, a CSS rule implemented in Firefox's latest 3.5 release which allows web designers to reference fonts not installed on end user machines.

(In other words: it allows web designers to store fonts on their server and reference them in CSS , regardless of what fonts the user browsing the page has installed.)

Look at it in Firefox- it is designed for that. It looks OK enough in Safari, but we'd rather have you see it in all its glory. Click around a bit and see what the future of typography for the web looks like....

We lucked out in getting Underware to agree to being our foundry partners in making this demo happen. The demo coincides with the release of their new typeface, Liza.

Original referring page on Mozilla's site is here.

Thanks to Craig for dropping crazy hours with me on getting this project together. Shoutouts to Mozilla for their support, encouragement, and sheer radicalness!

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Font-of-the-Day

A day-by-day calendar conceived of by Lars Harmsen and Raban Ruddigkeit at Slanted. You can buy a physical desktop calendar or download a desktop / iphone widget for free. They have opened up the floor for submissions to the 2010 edition. Check it here.

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