For more than 25 years, the Walker Art Center and AIGA Minnesota have collaborated to bring leading design practitioners to the Twin Cities for the annual Insights Design Lecture Series. Since 2005, Insights lectures have been webcast and are available through the Walker Channel.
2012
- Aaron Draplin (Draplin Design Company)
- Khoi Vinh (Lascaux Co.)
- Michael Lejeune (LA Metro)
- David Pearson
2011
- Kevin Quealy (New York Times Graphics Department)
- Michael Hart (Mono)
- James Goggin (Practise/Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago)
- Julie Beeler (Second Story Interactive Studio)
2010
- Eddie Opara (Map Office)
- Peter Buchanan-Smith (Best Made Co.)
- Irma Boom
- Stefan G. Bucher (344 Design)
2009
- Eric Olson & Nicole Dotin (Process Type Foundry)
- David Reinfurt (O-R-G/Dexter Sinister)
- Marieke Stolk & Danny van den Dungen (Experimental Jetset)
- Ellen Lupton
2008
- Marian Bantjes
- Alejandro Quinto & Lorraine Gauthier (Work Worth Doing)
- Prem Krishnamurthy & Adam Michaels (Project Projects)
- Ed Fella
2007
- Daniel Eatock
- Stuart Bailey, Michael Bierut, Debbie Millman
- Lorraine Wild
- Jop van Bennekom
2006
- Bill Grant (Grant Design Collaborative)
- Richard Boynton & Scott Thares (Wink)
- Armand Mevis & Linda van Deursen (Mevis & Van Deursen)
- Chip Kidd
2005
- Masamichi Udagawa & Sigi Moeslinger (Antenna Design)
- Maureen Mooren & Daniel van der Velden (Maureen Mooren and Daniel van der Velden Design)
- Paul Sahre (The Office of Paul Sahre)
- John Christakos and Maurice Blanks (Blu Dot Design)
2004
- Paula Scher (Pentagram)
- Michael Byzewski & Dan Ibarra (Aesthetic Apparatus)
- Scott Stowell (open)
- Thomas Castro, Jeroen Barendse & Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen (LUST)
- Andrew Stevens (Graphic Thought Facility)
2003
- Jessica Helfand & William Drenttel (Winterhouse)
- Rick Valicenti (Thirst & Thirstype)
- Thomas Widdershoven (Thonik)
- Charles S. Anderson & Laurie DeMartino
2002
- Janet Abrams (Design Institute, UMN)
- Lisa Strausfeld (Pentagram)
- Jonathan Hoefler & Tobias Frere-Jones
- Michael Rock (2x4)
2001
- John Maeda
- Wolfgang Weingart
- Jennifer Sterling
- Geoff McFetridge (Champion Graphics)
- Denise Gonzales Crisp
2000
- Mikon van Gastel (Imaginary Forces)
- Cornel Windlin
- Aura Oslapas (IDEO)
- Gael Towey (Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia)
1999
- Why Not Associates
- Susan Yelavich
- Elliott Peter Earls (The Apollo Program)
- Marlene McCarty (Bureau)
1998
- Lauralee Alben
- James Victore
- ReVerb
- Piotr Szyhalski
1997
- Alicia Johnson & Hal Wolverton
- J.otto Seibold
- J. Abbott Miller
- Andrea Moed
1996
- Tucker Viemeister
- Samina Qureashi
- P. Scott Makela
- Duane Michaels
1995
- Emily Oberman & Bonnie Siegler
- Matthew Carter
- Randall Rothenberg
- John Plunkett & Barbara Kuhr
1994
- Dana Arnett
- Rick Poynor
- Michael Bierut
- Nancy Skolos
1993
- Fo Wilson
- Massimo Vignelli
- Judy Corcoran
- Peter Goode & Patrick McCaughey
1992
- John Jay
- Chip Kidd
- Jilly Simmons
- Kent Hunter
- Steven Doyle
1991
- Katherine McCoy
- Joe Duffy
- Rudy Vanderlans
- Kit Hinrichs
- Steven Heller
1990
- Alexander Isley
- Michael Bierut
- Pat Gorman
- Judy Olausen
- Stormi Greener
- Lynn Geesman
1989
- Tibor Kalman
- Philip Larsen
- Paula Scher
- Stephen Frykholm
1988
- Lorraine Wild
- Keith Goddard
- Clement Mok
- Dugald Stermer
1987
- Muriel Cooper
- Douglas Scott
- Bill Stumpf
- Steven Heller
1986
- Paul Prejza
- Christopher Pullman
- Peter Seitz
- Jayme Odgers