From the catalogue for Graphic Design: Now in Production: Albert Exergian’s Iconic TV series of more than fifty posters mixes the high-minded, abstract, and minimalist style of classic Swiss modernism made famous by the likes of various mid-twentieth-century practitioners such as Josef Müller-Brockmann, Armin Hoffman, and Max Bill with the pop cultural excesses of American television programming. A…

1: poster installed in Walk Around Time: Selections from the Permanent Collection 2002/2003; 2: poster installed in Graphic Design: Now in Production 2011/2012 This poster by M/M (Paris) is one of two works in our graphic design show to have been previously exhibited at the Walker (the other is Re- Magazine by Jop van Bennekom). The M/M (Paris) poster in fact is in our permanent collection as part of…

Alison and Peter Smithson et al., Parallel of Life and Art, installation at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1952   © 2011 Tate, London From the catalogue for Graphic Design: Now in Production: In 1953, Alison and Peter Smithson, along with Nigel Henderson, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Ronald Jenkins mounted the exhibition Parallel of Life and Art at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London…

From the catalogue for Graphic Design: Now in Production: The merger of personalized messages and automated design is the subject of LUST’s Poster Wall for the 21st Century (2007/2011), a projected scrim of ever-changing posters. Using local websites to scavenge images and texts, computer algorithms produce designs for up to 600 posters a day. Viewers can send messages to a computer, which are then…

This is part 3 of an ongoing survey. See part 1 here, part 2 here. As a design candidate in the MCAD MFA program I was asked to write an “artist statement” which, as a designer, I found inherently problematic. In response I contacted designers whose work inspired and influenced me in some way, asking: Is there such a thing as a “designer statement,” and if so, how would you go about creating one? I received…

This is part 2 of an ongoing survey. See part 1 here. As a design candidate in the MCAD MFA program I was asked to write an “artist statement” which, as a designer, I found inherently problematic. In response I contacted designers whose work inspired and influenced me in some way, asking: Is there such a thing as a “designer statement,” and if so, how would you go about creating one? I received responses…

As a design candidate in the MCAD MFA program I was asked to write an “artist statement.” Producing an all-encompassing articulation of my work posed a challenge—aside from a certain violence inherent in definitions, the idea of an “artist statement” seemed somewhat problematic for a designer, having worked primarily on client-based projects for a number of years since receiving my BA. When I…

Mark your calendars! On Thursday, December 1, Anthony Burrill will lecture at the Walker. Walker Cinema, 7 pm FREE tickets are available from 6 pm at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk. Above, page 98 of the Graphic Design: Now in Production catalogue featuring Burrill’s posters. Anthony Burrill is a graphic designer living and working on the Isle of Oxney in England. He designs and prints posters that…

Check out the opening-day talk for Graphic Design: Now in Production that took place October 22, 2011. The lecture is in the Pecha Kucha style (20 slides, 20 seconds each) and features presentations from all of the curators as well as some designers in the show. It’s fun to see people talk so fast . . .