For over 75 years, the Walker Art Center has explored the cutting edge of publishing across form and content. This continues today through our print and digital publishing endeavors.
Since its founding, the Walker Art Center design team has produced a wide range of catalogues, magazines, and publications that explore this evolving medium.
Reframing Sophie Calle: An Interview with Julia Born
Swiss graphic designer Julia Born sits down to discuss how she employed an intricate typographic and graphic system int he exhibition catalog Sophie Calle: Overshare.
Designer of the exhibition catalogue for Pacita Abad, Mỹ Linh Triệu Nguyễn explores how the artist's woven trapunto paintings, maximalism, and Philippine pre-colonial scripts influenced the creation of this unique book.
From Homer to Joyce and even shards of wood, designer Ben Schwartz traces their influences and process of creating the catalogue for Jannis Kounellis in Six Acts.
A Warm, Lazy Day: Paul Chan Interviews Brian Huddleston on Designing the Catalogue for Paul Chan: Breathers
The Walker Design Studio recently worked with artist Paul Chan to design the catalogue to accompany his upcoming exhibition, Paul Chan: Breathers. In this reverse interview, Paul Chan talks with catalogue designer Brian Huddleston about his beginnings in type design and the process of creating the typeface he designed for the book.
"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.
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.
