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VCFA’s Ian Lynam debuts new Japanese art travel book

March 29, 2017

VCFA Co-chair Ian Lynam just designed a new English language tourism guide in book and website form for the Japanese National Tourism Organization. The project is called 99+1: Traveling Through Art, Design and Architecture.

Ian Lynam's new book and website for the Japanese National Tourism Organization

Within, 99 major art, design and architecture sites in Japan are broken down geographically by Renna Okubo, Ian’s partner in their new curation-oriented studio Corinthians.

Ian Lynam's new book and website for the Japanese National Tourism Organization

The listings are supplemented by additional listings and superb essays by Editor-in-chief Roland Hagenberg, one of Tokyo’s leading architectural critics and writers. The typography for the book highlights the type design of VCFA faculty Hammer for the logo and headlines.

Ian Lynam's new book and website for the Japanese National Tourism Organization

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The Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design is one of the nation’s first low-residency programs in graphic design that is built around a student’s individual interests and goals.

The MFA in Graphic Design is an immersive two-year graduate program that synthesizes five intense, one-week residencies with four six-month semesters of independent study with a range of faculty mentors. We educate students towards the broader context of design in order to investigate and reveal relationships. We see Graphic Design as a social tool and design education as a process of social transformation.

Our innovative, highly effective pedagogical model has its roots in the progressive educational philosophies of John Dewey. Our student-centered approach allows students to develop individualized study plans, addressing design issues that support their particular interests, values, and goals.

MFA students in our Graphic Design program will develop skills in form, content and craft, deepen and expand critical ability, build fluency in contemporary design discourse, and expand their ability to drive content with their work.

Graduates emerge with new research methods, critical acumen, and a body of design work that is personal and relevant; one which enhances their professional and academic path. They will have learned to continuously rethink design by considering cultural context, relationships between designers and their work, and the nature of education within design.