Studio Lin:
Graphic Design,
Art Direction

OMA New York’s self published monograph reviewing over 10 years of work.

With over 5,500 images, each project is presented in extreme detail.

For each project, existing powerpoint presentations are used to create the basic narrative structure. Additional images, diagrams and sketches fill in the gaps.

OMA NY Monograph

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I Can Make You Feel Good, Tyler Mitchell’s first monograph. No white space, every surface printed.

The limited edition comes in a linen box containing an unbound newsprint booklet with thoughts and anecdotes on every image in the ICMYFG book.

Tyler Mitchell ICMYFG

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Project documentation for OMA New York. Images and transcribed text from Powerpoint presentations. Saddle stitched individual project booklets can be wired together as compilations.

OMA NY Booklets

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1,000 representations of the human figure in architectural drawings, removed from their architectural context

An Encyclopedia of ...

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Monograph spanning the first decade of John Edmond’s photographic practice

Higher John Edmonds

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Slipcase containing booklet and posters for the 6 nominees of the 2018 Hugo Boss Prize

Guggenheim Hugo Boss Prize

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Exhibition graphics and type for 44 Low-resolution Houses, curated and designed by MOS Architects.

Catalog for 44 Low-resolution Houses printed on 100lb cover paper, the same material the scale house models were made of.

44 Low-resolution Houses

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Justified rags for “Naoya Hatakeyama, Excavating the Future City” published by Aperture.

Excavating the Future City

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Unboxing New York

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Book & website with a collection of 100 surveillance related photo books, all indexed by year of publication, title, photographer, description, size, & code.

Surveillance Index Book and Website

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Books introducing contemporary and historical works by both emerging and established Japanese and Chinese photographers.

Session Press Books

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A website for the Canadian Centre for Architecture representing the institution as an editorial project through ideas, not by information or facts.

The new website for the Canadian Centre for Architecture creates a robust platform for the digital publication of architectural content. The site is divided into 3 distinct containers; editorial, institutional, and search. The primary face of the website is the editorial section, in which the institution's interests and output can be presented in a myriad of ways. Insitutional content is contained within an expanding blue bar and contains a comprehensive timeline, exhibitions & events and general information. The search is able to query content from a wide variety of sources, which previously had to be searched individually.

www.cca.qc.ca

CCA Website

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Utilizing on-demand printing to create materials designed with a stripped-down, generic quality.

MOS Print Materials

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Identity, book, website and signage for a boutique devoted to exclusive limited editions & unique works of art and design.

Chamber

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About

Studio Lin is a graphic design practice in New York City. We create books, identities and websites for local and international clients. Our work applies a visual language that is thoroughly researched yet easily assimilated. Our transparent work process, and the fact that many of our clients are engaged with art and design, often means that projects are more collaborative than commissioned.

Alex Lin founded Studio Lin in 2009. He holds an MFA in graphic design from Yale University. Noah Beckwith joined the studio in 2021.

Current projects include books with MOS Architects, MoMA, Capricious, Harvard GSD, Whitney Museum, ICA Miami and Theo Wenner. Website and identity projects with Untitled Art, forA on the Urban and flamingo.

Select Clients

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Abruzzo Bodziak, Aperture, Austrian Cultural Forum, Capricious, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Cero9, Chamber, Columbia GSAPP, Dashwood Books, The Drawing Center, DKNY, Google, Guggenheim, Harvard GSD, Instagram, ICFF, Klein Sun Gallery, Kid O, kinder MODERN, MoMA, OMA NY, Phaidon, Princeton SOA, The Shed, Session Press, Sight Unseen, Studio Museum in Harlem, Rockwell Group, Roll & Hill, Mary Ping, The New York Times, Tunica Magazine, Tyler Mitchell, MOS Architects, Whitney Museum, Nike.

News:

September 2018 “Plan your work and work your plan”

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September 2018 “Plan your work and work your plan”

“44 Low Resolution Houses” graphic design for exhibition by MOS Architects on view at Princeton University, 9/11/2018 through 11/9/2018. 44 scale models and 50+ feet of fuzzy iron on type.

January 2018 “Be on the lookout for coming events; They cast their shadows beforehand”

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Surveillance Index Edition One travels to LE BAL, Paris to be presented as Surveillance Index Performing Books One. Over 200 photo books all related to surveillance. Opening on January 10, 2018. Photo by David Brandon Geeting.

December 2017 “You will have a pleasant surprise”

Mao Ishikawa Red Flower a book we designed for Session Press has received a few distinctions including: 2017 Shortlist for Arles photo book contest, 2017 Best Books: Jim Goldberg, and 10 best books of the year by Libération. Thank you!

November 2016 “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”

“An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures without Architecture” is a 1,600 page book we designed with MOS Architects for the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial. The book features scale figures from architects spanning from Le Corbusier to OMA. All scale figures are shown with the actual architecture removed.

October 2016 “Integrity is the essense of everything successful”

We had the honor to design and illustrate Regarding Cocktails, the only book from the late Sasha Petraske, the legendary bartender who changed cocktail culture with his speakeasy-style bar Milk & Honey. For each of the 85 cocktail recipes, we created a true to ratio illustration with a different pattern for every ingredient.

“Anticipation over gratification, care and quality before convenience, and fairness and generosity governing ambition”

— Sasha Petraske

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October 2016 “Elegant surroundings will soon be yours”

Part I of Chamber Collection #3 "Just What Is It?" curated by Matylda Krykowski opened this month. Named after the iconic 1956 artwork by Richard Hamilton, “Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?”, “Just What Is It” at Chamber explores groups of objects that are possibly as desirable now as the items featured prominently in Hamilton’s work were half a century ago, at the dawn of the modern consumer age. Hamilton pasted images onto a page, and Krzykowski places objects in a space, creating a collage of contemporary works in real life. We'll be designing a catalog for the show after all four parts are completed in 2017. www.chambernyc.com

May 2016 “Do not let ambitions overshadow small success”

In 2015, we gave the International Contemporary Furniture Fair a new logo and set of printed materials. This year, we designed a prospectus and calendar. (with illustrations by Andy Rementer) We wish we could have also worked on the signage and website, but are happy to report that ICFF had a record attendance in 2016.

October 2015 “All the preparation you've done will finally be paying off”

Chamber Collection #2 exhibit 1 launches. Curated by Andrew Zuckerman, the collection features 46 objects from all over the world ranging from a dinosaur bone to a tea set re-imagined by Chen & Kai. Chamber is a boutique devoted to exclusive limited editions & unique works of art and design. Studio Lin has worked with Chamber on identity, print and website since its launch in 2013. www.chambernyc.com

September 2015 “A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking”

Studio Lin's new website has partially launched with selected projects. We chose a few projects to shoot in a context where the work might actually be seen. The photo shoot took us around NYC with stops in Harlem, Long Island City and Brooklyn. Complete project archive for the site to be completed towards the end of this year.

May 2015 “The gambler is like the fisherman, both have beginner’s luck”

Our catalog designed for Chamber’s inaugural collection has been awarded a yellow pencil by D&AD. We are grateful to Chamber’s founder Juan Garcia Mosqueda for the opportunity.

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