Insights 2019 Design Lecture Series brings the country's leading designers to Walker Art Center

Redefine your understanding of graphic design with the Insights Design Lecture Series, presenting four leading designers from around the world. Dive in to the thinking behind their work, then hang out after the lectures to meet the speakers, grab a drink, and chat with your fellow design lovers. The lineup features designer/brand consultant Forest Young, fashion and culture guru Mirko Borsche, prolific illustrator Bráulio Amado, and magazine expert Gail Bichler.

Copresented by the Walker Art Center and AIGA Minnesota.
Sponsored by 10 Thousand Design.

Insights 2019
Design Lecture Series
Tuesdays, March 5–26, 7 pm
Walker Cinema

Tickets
Tickets go on sale Friday, February 1. Tickets for each lecture are $24 ($19 Walker and AIGA members; $10 students). To buy a ticket, visit walkerart.org/tickets or call the box office at 612.375.7600.

Save with an Insights Series Package
Discount ticket package includes all four Insights lectures. Series Packages are $72 ($57 Walker and AIGA members; $30 students).

After-Lecture Receptions
Directly following each lecture, meet the speakers, grab a drink, and chat with fellow design lovers in the Walker’s Main Lobby.

Watch Anywhere: Insights Viewing Parties
The lectures, with the exception of Bráulio Amado, will be webcast live and archived on walkerart.org. If you can’t make it here in person this year, consider having an Insights Viewing Party with a group of friends and send in your comments and questions for the speakers via Twitter (#InsightsDesign).

LECTURE SCHEDULE

Forest Young, Global Principal/Head of Design, Wolff Olins
March 5, 7 pm

Forest Young, a quintessential design thinker, is both global principal and head of design at Wolff Olins, the acclaimed branding firm named “the most innovative company of 2018” by Fast Company. Young brings together a love for psychology and humanity with an interest in design, technology, and culture. When he’s not working for global brands such as Uber, Google, or Microsoft, Young is writing on design and serving as a visiting critic for Yale’s MFA in graphic design program.

Bráulio Amado, BAD Studio
March 12, 7 pm

Amado’s prolific output manages to blend highly agitated typography with warped and wonderful illustration styles, all within a framework of rigorous layout, concept, and communication. Originally from Portugal, Amado moved to New York to work for design consultancy Pentagram, then moved on to Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, and finally advertising agency Weiden + Kennedy. Now with his own studio focused on illustration and design for cultural clients, his wildly diverse and constantly morphing work never fails to exude an overwhelming sense of joy.

Mirko Borsche, Founder, Bureau Mirko Borsche
March 19, 7pm

The work of Bureau Borsche seems to float effortlessly between contradictory worlds: the gridded rigidness of German newspaper design; the populist landscape of corporate clients such as Nike and BMW; the avant-garde experimentalism of the art world; and the luxurious conceptualism of fashion brands such as Balenciaga. In all of these spheres, Borsche’s typography and art direction shines through, always fresh and always relevant. Other clients include Zeit Magazin, Kaleidoscope magazine, Rimowa, and Hay, as well as the German daily newspaper Die Zeit, which Borsche himself creative directs.

Gail Bichler, Deputy Art Director/Design Director, New York Times Magazine
Mach 26, 7 pm

For years, New York Times Magazine has set a high bar for sophisticated editorial design, bringing together world class writing with daring typographic systems and captivating art direction. The publication channels design styles associated with much more experimental outlets, staying within the larger New York Times brand. Gail Bichler has worked for the Times in many roles: as a designer, an art director, and now currently as the magazine’s design director, leading a team of talented designers and typographers, while collaborating with some of the world’s best creatives.

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