This is part 4 of an ongoing survey. See part 1 here, part 2 here and part 3 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…

“We are interested in the ways in which Facebook and government, Facebook and employers, Facebook and friends, Facebook and enemies constitute a power arrangement, and the way in which this constellation might influence politics, currency, and the social contract.” So says Metahaven of Facestate, a Walker-commissioned project in the exhibition Graphic Design: Now in Production. An Amsterdam-based…

Our catalogue for Graphic Design: Now in Production is now available. Above is the illustrated colophon for the book which gives a lot of detail about the production so click in at your leisure! With more than 250 artists and some 1,400 images, this ambitious catalogue and exhibition survey the vibrant landscape of graphic designers who have seized the means of production and are rewriting…

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…