DIY is great, but it has its dark side. That’s the message behind an installation by Aesthetic Apparatus, self-described as “Minneapolis’ best totally unknown design super team,” in the window of the Walker Shop. Installed Oct. 12, the display includes 150 screenprinted posters hanging to dry — some completed by the design duo on site — and the tools of the printing process, the team’s silkscreen materials…

Walker Expanded, the Walker’s graphic identity, functions like a typeface, but “instead of individual letterforms, each character equals a word or a pattern. Walker Expanded is a tool that generates strips of words and patterns. Like a roll of tape, it can be can be applied to virtually any surface, from printed matter and screens to merchandise or even architecture.” The identity will be featured in the…

01 Magazine highlights Letterheady, an all-letterhead-all-the-time Tumblr blog. A few samples from the arts and culture submissions.

For several decades, the Walker’s Design Studio made its home on the top level of the Edward Larrabee Barnes–designed building in a space that hosted an array of graphic designers, editors, curators and guests. Sometime in the late 1980s, one section of wall was conscripted to tally the presence — and heights — of the many people who passed through the studio’s doors. That tradition continued until 2004…

Breast milk, cake frosting, melted wax, viscera, piss, blood, mud, and egg yolks: This is how exhibition co-curator Eric Crosby describes Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg’s newest project, . With her musical collaborator Hans Berg, the Berlin-based couple has created an environment populated by more than eighty individual bird sculptures, each with wildly varying colors and mish-mash anatomies. The flock is…

Mexico City-based Pedro Reyes’ Walker exhibition, Baby Marx, is an in-gallery film production studio featuring the founders of communism and capitalism. The artist and curators Camille Washington and Bartholomew Ryan chose a Playbill-influenced direction for the gallery guide, featuring the all-puppet cast “bios” and project chronology. And as theater programs often have advertisements, we decided to…

I’ve been digging through a lot of online image libraries recently, and thought I might post a few of them up here. The New York Public Library runs a Digital Gallery featuring over 700,000 images of photos, maps, scientific illustrations, illuminated manuscripts, and whatnot. Above is a selection from a great series of astronomical illustrations by Eteinne Leopold Trouvelot. The library also offers…

From July 1942 to the end of 1944, Marguerite Duras worked in Paris for the state authority that controlled the distribution of paper to publishers in German-occupied France. Acting as a censor, the Paper Allocation Agency (P.A.A.) determined which manuscripts were appropriate for print. Source: Laure Adler and Anne-Marie Glasheen, Marguerite Duras: A Life (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1998), 101. “It was…

Last fall I was enlisted to make a Photoshop file with the artist Goshka Macuga which would be made into a woven tapestry and hung in one of the Walker’s galleries. Needless to say, I was very excited to be involved in the production of such an unusual piece. To clarify, this wouldn’t be made by having ink from an inkjet printer sprayed on blank white fabric. The image in this case would actually…