“This book invites you to collaborate with 15 Minnesota artists—a project conceived in the spirit of Drawing Club at Walker Open Field, where artists and the public add to a pool of collectively created artworks. Rip a page out and color it for yourself, hang it up on your wall and photograph it, or tear it up and use it to make a new piece—but whatever you do, share it by uploading the results…

We often have the pleasure of entertaining visitors to the Design Studio. However, this is the first time–to our knowledge–that said visitors sent thank you cards composed of deconstructed Walker print ephemera: Thank you Margot Harrington of Pitch Design Union and Chad Kouri of The Post family !!

Take our new Walker Art Center Design Studio ART TEST to see if you’re a good match–there’s a special message for candidates who answer all 18 questions correctly. Since 1980, the Walker Art Center Design department has maintained a graphic design fellowship program that provides recent graduates (both undergrad and grad) the opportunity to work in a professional design studio environment…

Signage on the east wall at The Hollywood Burger Bar, 4211 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR 97213. One example of how in the course of this design we went a decent distance in a circle, to arrive not far from where we started, but considerably more informed. So much for being sui-generis, first to the apple, the original progenitor. I mean, dig how deeply sunk in our subconscious this place…

David Pearson began work at Penguin Books in 2002, and ever since he’s been making seemingly traditional designs that can be both unorthodox and unexpected, such as all-typographic book covers for Penguin Classics or the rainbow spectrum applied to the spines of Pocket Penguins. Here he discusses his love of printed ephemera, including Eastern European matchbox labels, which informs his work.

Minneapolis and Los Angeles transportation histories run parallel: both had extensive streetcar systems, now dismantled, and both are now working to rebuild that infrastructure. In a new interview, Metro LA creative director Michael Lejeune and Hennepin County planner Lisa Middag discuss transit, opportunity, and jettisoning, as Lejeune puts it, “that road rage that’s sucking up your soul.”

Aaron Draplin’s enthusiastic 76 minutes of tall tales are now online at the Walker Channel, and you can check it out here.

I was able to catch up with graphic designers Zak Klauck and David Yun to talk a little bit about WAX, a bi-annual print magazine with writer Aeriel Brown that explores the unique intersection of art, culture and surfing in and around the city…New York City to be specific. Growing up in Los Angeles and living in Laguna Beach for a fair bit of my life, skate and surf culture influenced the way…