“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…

Syracuse University just launched the Marcel Breuer archive, a repository for 30,000 digitized drawings, photographs, and letters by the modernist architect, including blueprints and models for his iconic 1961 Abbey Church at Minnesota’s St. John’s University.

The Walker took home six prizes at the AIGA Minnesota Design Show. Our website and the catalogue for Nathalie Djurberg’s show (now at the New Museum) were among winners. A seventh went to design director Emmet Byrne and Michael Aberman for Postcards from America.

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…