We have a great permanent collection exhibition up right now called Midnight Party, organized by Joan Rothfuss, Adjunct Curator, with Eric Crosby, Curatorial Assistant. It’s a beautiful and diverse show, filled with “art whose content is primarily spiritual, visionary, enigmatic, or dreamlike—in a word, subjective.” Check out a creepy and mesmerizing video promo of the exhibition here. An interesting theme…

Hey, Harsh. Where are you from, originally? I was born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya up til age 9 or a bit later. My secondary years were spent in Texas. You were living in New York and you just recently moved to Los Angeles. How has that been? Any LA moments so far? No particular moments. It’s sort of a never ending impression process. Overwhelmingly positive, per my tastes. I’ll wait to see where it goes…

From the Walker archives: a group of typographic fliers (8.5 x 11) from the mid to late 70′s used to promote events like poetry readings, concerts, plays, and performances. We are currently reviving the flier system, if only as shadow marketing.

So this one’s a little different. We don’t normally make posts based around music we like, but when that notion is combined with thoughtful design and good people doing good things, it only seems right share the awesomeness with others, and what better way to do that than with a blog post! Recently Sims, a Minneapolis rapper and Minnesota native, released his second full length album titled, “Bad Time…

Insights, our annual graphic design lecture series, returns on Tuesday nights, starting tomorrow with Kevin Quealy and continuing during the next four weeks with Michael Hart, Julie Beeler, James Goggin, and Casey Caplow. Buy your tickets! These lectures will be webcast live and archived on the Walker Channel, where you can also view past lectures such as Experimental Jetset, Project Projects, Irma Boom…

The DEATH of led me to make .  I found that the DEATH was not that of the form of ; the DEATH was/is in the heads of most people who attempt to. Theis a mirror of the world. The world is falling apart.

Here is another (slightly overwhelming) group of images from our archives: a series of performing arts pamphlets from the late 1960′s/early 70′s that roughly sticks to the same system. The earliest pamphlet is from April 1968, a black and white flier for JAZZ at the Guthrie (which turns out to be one of the most interesting of the bunch). The last pamphlet we could find was from March 1972 for Merce…

We were recently invited to participate in The Way Beyond: Wide White Space, an exhibition at the Wattis Institute in San Francisco (January 20–February 5, 2011) that focuses on exhibition design, designers who curate exhibitions, and everything in between. The show is curated by Jon Sueda of Stripe SF, who is also the resident designer at the Wattis and teaches at CCA. “Historically, galleries and…