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Ian Lynam Design finishes new project for Adobe

June 21, 2015

VCFA MFA Program in Graphic Design Chair Ian Lynam’s multidisciplinary design studio has just launched a new project for Adobe’s Typekit webfont service. After a number of years in development, Adobe has launched support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean webfonts with the most significantly reduced loading times ever—a world first!

Sample specimen website for Adobe Typekit

Sample Japanese webfont specimen website for Adobe Typekit

In the guise of a restaurant in his neighborhood of Hatagaya, Shibuya in Tokyo, Ian and ace developer/designer Thien Huynh have crafted a responsive site that takes advantage of Adobe’s new webfont offerings while also highlighting some fancy CSS trickery.

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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.