Patrick J. Lynch
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Patrick J. Lynch is the Director of Yale University School of Medicine’s MedMedia Group. In his 33 years with Yale University he has been a medical illustrator, biomedical photographer, audiovisual producer, and for the past 20 uears a designer of interactive multimedia teaching, training, and informational software and Web sites. His recent work is in information and graphic design for the Web, enterprise identity and online marketing, and user interface design for network-based systems, for clients such as Yale-New Haven Hospital, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Yale University.
Lynch has won over 30 national awards for his medical illustrations, publications, and software design, including the 1992 Best-in-Show Award from the Health Sciences Communications Association and a Gold Medal, Silver Medal and Award of Excellence in the international INVISION Multimedia Awards. He has authored over 100 professional papers, magazine articles, and book chapters. He has been a consultant and invited speaker on Web design and Web communications issues to many universities, government agencies, corporations, and non-profits groups, and regularly does talks, workshops, and professonal papers in biocommuications, academic computing, medical illustration, biomedical visualization, and Web publication.
His book Manual of Ornithology, co-authored with Noble S. Proctor of Southern Connecticut State University, was published by Yale University Press in 1993. The Manual has won several national awards for editiorial and design excellence, and is currently one of the most widely-used texts in undergraduate and graduate ornitholgy courses.
In 2002 Yale University Press recently published the second edition of his book Web Style Guide, which he co-authored with Sarah Horton of Dartmouth College. With over 150,000 copies in print the Web Style Guide was Yale University Press’s best-selling book for several years, and it has been translated into 9 international editions, including Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and several Spanish-language editions. Reviewer Edward Tufte called the book “a style guide for the interface with real long-run value,” and the New York Times called the Web Style Guide “an Elements of Style for the Web.”
In April of 2005 Yale University Press will release Lynch’s latest collaboration with Noble Proctor, A Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife: Marine Mammals, Seabirds, Fish, and Other Sea Life. The new book contains over 100 full-color plates illustrated by Lynch of over 300 species of ocean wildlife.