The Walker Art Center and AIGA is pairing up again to have their March graphic design lecture series. Insights usually host no surprises for me these days. You’ll have a mix of academia, hip, highly theoretical, and your dull lecturers. Normally I find my self saying, OK, ya, nice work. But it ends up feeling [...]
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year)
The screening @ the Walker will include a Q&A with Gary Hustwit, the director.
Doesn’t look like this is on the Walker’s calendar yet. I’ll update this [...]
I was lucky enough to attend the Chuck Close discussion at the Walker last weekend. (July 24, 2005)
Chuck Close as an artist has quite a bit to give our community. He works from photographs he has taken of large heads of people that he knows.These photos include many of himself. In fact, that is [...]
The new Walker Art Center is very cool looking. As I walked by this afternoon, I saw a maintenance person weed whacking the twenty or so perfect circles of grass.
Yes, the green dots contrast nicely to the square, pale sidewalk and the other architectural elements. Seriously, though, making something cool shouldn’t make it more [...]
I have yet to take the time to survey all that is new at the walker; however, while attending the recent Insight Series I was pleased to find a more “open” approach to their lectures.
This may have existed before, but you can find lectures webcast at channel.walker.org.
Blu Dot designs and manufactures modern furniture and furnishings. Its founding partners, John Christakos, Maurice Blanks, and Charlie Lazor—whose backgrounds range from architecture and art to marketing—created the company in Minneapolis with the desire to make quality modern design available to everyday people. Their humanist and populist approach to modern furnishings dovetailed with the democratization [...]
After a few unsatisfying stints designing for others, Paul Sahre established his own design studio, first in Baltimore and then in New York, where he has been since 1995. Consciously maintaining a small office, he has nevertheless established a large presence in American graphic design. The balance he strikes, whether between commercial and personal projects [...]
Daniel van der Velden is a graphic designer and writer based in Amsterdam who, since 1998, has been collaborating with Maureen Mooren on a variety of design and editorial projects. Among a new generation of influential Dutch graphic designers, they have developed a reputation for work that engages and challenges its readers by making aspects [...]