The next few days are going to be quite busy for designers in the Twin Cities! On Monday night, join Andrew and me for a brief discussion about the ideas behind the Graphic Design: Now in Production catalogue, followed by a book signing, and then step right next door and check out the closing night of the WOMN: Women in Minnesota Designexhibition. And before that goes down, there are three great…

French graphic designer, Fanette Mellier, has two pieces in Graphic Design: Now in Production. The first is her Specimen poster, a meticulous patterning of printer’s marks and color bars, and the other is a conceptual redesign of the book Bastard Battle, a novel by French author, Céline Minard. I recently emailed Fanette and asked her a few short questions about her work. I quickly realized that the…

Check out Daniel Eatock explaining his piece Felt-Tip Print, which is featured in Graphic Design: Now in Production. Also, don’t forget that we have Eatock’s new wrapping paper (and many other things) for sale in our Graphic Design Shop.

Gigantic poster / tape drawing (I think) designed by Inva Cota for Andrew Blauvelt’s workshop at Yale. Yeah I see the resemblance.

The Origin of Tux The concept of the Linux mascot being a penguin came from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux. Tux was created by Larry Ewing in 1996 after an initial suggestion made by Alan Cox and further refined by Linus Torvalds on the Linux kernel mailing list. Torvalds took his inspiration from a photograph he found on an FTP site, showing a penguin figurine looking strangely like the…

On the Self-Reflexive Page Louis Lüthi’s exquisitely authored and designed book On the Self-Reflexive Page (2010) documents the history of the page as a material arena to be foregrounded and exploited. This discourse of the page began with Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy in the eighteenth century…

In the week since logo designer Christophe Szpajdel arrived for last Friday’s opening of the exhibition Graphic Design: Now In Production, the Belgium-born, UK-based artist has completed nearly 50 new logos. Among marks for bands like Jucifer, Human Remains and Powerlord was a hand-drawn black-metal…

We’ve been trying to get Riley and His Story(which is featured in our current exhibition) on the design blog for a while now, so it was great to find this article posted yesterday on Twin Cities Metro. The designer of the book, Matthew Rezac, is a former Walker design fellow and a force to be reckoned with in the Minneapolis design scene. Here is Matthew’s description of the book: Riley and his story…

Another fantastic piece in the show is Konstantin Grcic´s 360°. As one of only two seating apparatuses featured in Graphic Design: Now in Production, this non-chair found its way into the gallery as part of a larger installation, Jürg Lehni’s Empty Words (separate post to come soon) and therefore does…