A wide-ranging collection of essays spanning design, decolonization and history Hot on the heels of his books The Impossibility of Silence and The Failed Painter , designer, writer and teacher Ian Lynam’s latest body of work is an urgent and impassioned examination of the contemporary condition. War with Myself is a wide-ranging collection of essays spanning design, authenticity, empire, decolonization and history. Originally hailing from New York, Ian Lynam holds a BS in graphic design from Portland State University and an MFA in graphic design from CalArts. He is faculty and former cochair at Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA Graphic Design program. Lynam is a cofounder of the critical cultural online journal Néojaponisme and the associated print journal NJP . He is a Mead Show winner and a two-time winner of both the STA 100 and the Asian Pacific Design Awards.