Redefine your understanding of graphic design with the Insights Design Lecture Series, presenting five leading designers from around the world. The 2020 lineup features features branding expert Leland Maschmeyer, LA multidisciplinarian Daniel DeSure, hyper-aesthete Hassan Rahim, magazine expert Veronica Ditting, and a special, bonus lecture from design ethicist Ruben Pater.
From catalogue chapter headings inspired by jazz gig posters to the graphic identity for LOOP magazine, here's a look at the designs for the Walker's Jason Moran exhibition, created by 12:01—Office of Hassan Rahim.
"My first question was how might the concept of tracing become a conceptual thread that would formally tie the book together?" Aryn Beitz shares a behind-the-scenes look at the process that birthed the intricately layered, 448-page exhibition catalogue for Siah Armajani: Follow This Line, now on view at the Met Breuer.
Resident photographer Bobby Rogers introduces Walker Photo, a new series of dispatches from the museum's in-house photo studio, with a look at recent projects, from floral-themed band portraits and performance documentation to lookbooks and in-gallery instructional photography.
Redefine your understanding of graphic design with the Insights Design Lecture Series, presenting four leading designers from around the world. The 2019 lineup features designer/brand consultant Forest Young, fashion and culture guru Mirko Borsche, prolific illustrator Bráulio Amado, and magazine expert Gail Bichler.
Bootlegging Al: Designing the Catalogue for Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968–2018
How do you bootleg contemporary art? In designing the catalogue for Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968–2018, Ben Schwartz started with the exhibition's title, which nods to the theme of copyright that spans the artist's 50-year oeuvre. Referencing pop cultural traces in the work—borrowed, copied, stolen, and subverted—he set out to create "a giant cultural bootleg filtered through a Ruppersbergian lens."
Redefine your understanding of graphic design with the Insights Design Lecture Series, presenting four leading designers from around the country: interdisciplinary studio PLAYLAB, INC.; legendary feminist designer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville; Nike’s chief marketing officer Greg Hoffman; and experimental print/digital publishing guru Paul Soulellis.
Over seven decades, Merce Cunningham reshaped dance into a new kind of art form—one that embraced technology, the creative potential of chance, and a dedication to cross-disciplinary collaboration.
The Avant Museology symposium explored artistic practices, sociopolitical contexts, and historical complexities associated with the contemporary museum. "We wanted to create an identity that would serve as a container for the questions posed—a system designed in anticipation of the discourse that the symposium would yield," says designer Jas Stefanski.
Widening the Scope: On Intangibility, Embodiment, and Ephemerality
In 2015, the Walker Shop released Intangibles—a line of products and artworks with no physical form. Participating artists and designers included Martine Syms, Alec Soth, CFCF, and K-HOLE.
Dante Carlos looks at Autoconstrucción, a method of home construction. The Autoconstrucción Suites is the latest survey of artist Abraham Cruzvillegas’s decade-long investigation of this phenomenon and how it informs his work. Carlos takes a closer look at it.
