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Featured Program

Insights 2013 Design Lecture Series

The Insights series brings leading designers from around the world to the Walker to share the thinking, methods, and processes behind their work. This year, we welcome Geoff McFetridge of Champion Studio, Los Angeles; Eike König of Hort, Berlin; Job Wouters, also known as Letman, Amsterdam; and Luna Maurer… More

Design’s “Dark Lord” Discusses the Walker Art Center Black Metal Logo

Christophe Szpajdel, who has created some 10,000 brand marks since the 1980s, may be among the more prolific logo designers anywhere. He may also be one of the most unusual: he creates identities for bands such as Pyre, Vomit of Torture, and Godrot. When… More

Julian Bleecker

2012: The Year According to Julian Bleecker

For a futurist, our request might have been unwelcome: look back. Thankfully, artist and technologist Julian Bleecker agreed, offering his top 10 moments from 2012 in a list that ranges from acts of God (Hurricane Sandy) to the… More

Latitudes

Expanding the Book: An Interview with Badlands Unlimited

Under the motto “books in an expanded field,” Badlands Unlimited aims to challenge ideas about publishing to encompass everything from art shows curated for the Kindle and iPad to experimental… More

Mason Riddle

The Next Frontier for Minneapolis Parks

Already known nationally for its parks system, Minneapolis stands to burnish that reputation with a new plan for the upper reaches of the Mississippi. RiverFirst aims to establish parks as an engine for economic development… More

Julie Caniglia

The Art of Placemaking

A new kind of planning process is focusing on cultural organizations, creative placemaking, and the insights of artists in order to reinvent downtown Minneapolis’ Hennepin Avenue. In the process, it’s bringing artists to the fore, and developing a sustainable… More

Paul Schmelzer

Fill-in-the-Blank: Candy Chang’s Urban Interventions and Open-Ended Questions

A graphic designer, guerrilla artist, and urban planner, Candy Chang has spent the last decade instigating site-specific interventions, from chalk stencils… More

Paul Schmelzer

Ice Land

Uncharted territories, even in a relatively sparsely populated state like Minnesota, are few and far between. But each January, when the average temperature lingers around 7 degrees Fahrenheit, one such place comes into being, briefly, on the frozen surface of… More