“Stephanie DeArmond makes ceramic sculpture and installations that combine the honesty of traditional craft and its methods with a sly humor that places her work in a thoroughly contemporary context. Her use of text and illustration betrays an often macabre sense of reality that suggests mundanity may be aggression in disguise.” –Diana Kim. Her current work confuses mediums even further by…

Nearly two years ago I designed a poster for a typeface named Pistilli Roman in my Design Systems class at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.[1] Since then, I have received over 20 email inquires concerning the typeface. Most of these inquiries include comments and simple questions[2] about how one goes about obtaining Pistilli Roman (I usually respond by telling people that the typeface…

As an attempt to discover new books and ideas, I (along with my fellow design fellow, Vance) have been making a habit of visiting the Walker Art Center’s expansive library every Friday afternoon. Never before having such a rich resource available to us, we inevitably stumble upon many, blog-worthy, printed materials. Pending their level of worthiness as well as their state of ‘oh-snap-ness’, we will…

There is something so money about seeing rap lyrics contextualized in such an analytical format. Here are a couple favorites:

Kyle’s post at Arkitip about Maurice Scheltens triggered a happy memory of seeing photographer Uta Eisenreich’s work for the first time. Since the last time I checked she’s apparently designed a sweet website that’s structured like a pin-up board. Uta sets up conceptual situations often based on meticulously contrived (though loosely executed) human interaction, and then photographs the results. Her…

The recent opening of the Walker-curated exhibition Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love at the Whitney has seen a flurry of press in publications such as the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the cover of Art in America, and all I really care about, really, is how this affects our amazon.com sales for the catalogue. In that spirit, here is a reflection I wrote for the May/June…

One of the more recent projects we have undertaken here at the Walker is the exhibition Frida Kahlo, opening on October 27. This is one of the larger exhibitions of the year and one that has a lot of print collateral, including: billboards, transtops, a host of various advertisements, bilingual gallery graphics, passes, guides, signs, etc … but for us what all of this work really begins with is the design…

Scott Ponik and I were Walker Design Fellows from fall 2004 through fall 2006. When asked to stay on for an additional year [amidst the grand-(re)opening of the Walker expansion in 2005] we were left with a print budget from what would have been the 2005–2006 Design Fellowship poster (someone at some point will post these in the Flat File section, hint hint). In lieu of the poster we were asked to…

I just remembered I had these photos i thought i’d share. The photos are from last February when Andrew and Emmet visited NC State. They did a very nice presentation of projects done at the Walker’s Design Department dating back to 1998. Above: One of the slides in the presentation: Poster for Allan Wexler exhibition designed by Daniel Eatock. It was indeed a mini-Walker reunion when we went for…