As part of the Walker’s Interdisciplinary Work Group, design director Emmet Byrne invited Julian Bleecker of the Near Future Laboratory to lead a workshop based on his ideas of Design Fiction, a practice he describes as existing in the “fertile muddle where fact and fiction reflect and influence each other.”

“Interdisciplinary activity, valued today as an important aspect of research, cannot be accomplished by simple confrontations between various specialized branches of knowledge. Interdisciplinary work is not a peaceful operation: it begins effectively when the solidarity of the old disciplines breaks down—a process made more violent, perhaps, by the jolts of fashion—to the benefit of a new object…

As an in-house design studio for a cultural institution, we’re always churning out something for our internal clients, whether it’s a shop coupon, a gallery guide, and everything in between. Here’s a selection of some of the printed matter we’ve been producing in the studio over the last couple of months: Artist-Designed Pint Glasses, brochure […] As an in-house design studio for a cultural institution…

Drucksache is a publishing house based in Stockholm, founded in 2010 by Jacob Grønbech Jensen, Rikard Heberling and Emi-Simone Zawall. So far they have published five works, focusing mainly on poetry, linguistics and artists’ books, all by contemporary Swedish writers, except for the most recent publication: the first Swedish translation of Martin Heidegger’s On the […] Drucksache is a publishing house…

Sandra Kassenaar (1982, South Africa), lives and works in Amsterdam where she runs a small graphic design studio. She graduated with a BA from ArtEZ in Arnhem in 2003 and an MA from the Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem (NL) in 2007. Besides running her own studio she regularly teaches at the graphic design department of the Willem De Kooning […] Sandra Kassenaar (1982, South Africa), lives and works in…

Live from the New York Art Book Fair! Literally fresh from the Toyko Art Book Fair just a week ago, Temporary housing + shelter is a collaboratively edited project between New Zealand-based split/fountain (organized by former Walker design fellow Layla Tweedie-Cullen) and Whatever Press. Thinking about the effects of the natural disasters in Japan and New Zealand […] Literally fresh from the Toyko…

It was probably sometime in 2003 when Eric Wrenn and I noticed that we were the only ones on LiveJournal that had “Josef Müller-Brockmann” as a shared interest. This is something that still is both a badge of honor, and perhaps, an embarrassing fact. But what was fascinating was the combination of our obsession with […] It was probably sometime in 2003 when Eric Wrenn and I noticed that we were the…

  Issue Press is small independent publisher and Risograph print shop based in Grand Rapids, MI. began as an extension of George Wietor’s poster-making practice in 2010 and has expanded to a variety of print endeavors, focusing primarily on artist-made publications and print editions. The following is an interview with George Wietor as part of […] Issue Press is small independent publisher and…

The Walker design studio was featured in an exhibition called The Way Beyond Art: Wide White Space at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. You can read an interview about the exhibition here. A catalog/reader based on the exhibition , edited and designed by Jon Sueda, is now published and available here. The exhibition investigates […] The Walker design studio was featured in an…