The Thing is a brand new 80-page booklet by Ian Lynam about Things—Things we’ve designed, designed Things that we have inherited, and Things so woven into our societies and cultures that we cannot extricate Them.

Also, The Thing is a book that glows in the dark.

The Thing is about the problematics of design, designers, and design history.

Lovingly offset printed and screen printed in a mix of three colors, The Thing mixes graphic design history, memoir, object studies, dismembered limbs, virgin tears, and blood sacrifice applied to some of the silkiest Japanese papers available.