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Insights 2025 Design Lecture Series

A birds-eye view of runners crossing a line on a running track
Actual Source, Penn Relays 2024 For On, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

Expand your understanding of graphic design with the Insights Design Lecture Series, presenting leading designers and design thinkers from around the world. Exploring the theme of the evolving studio through a variety of perspectives and approaches, this year’s Insights pairs four in-person lectures with expanded programs that range from virtual workshops to articles, special projects, and more.

This year’s in-person lineup features collaborative Actual Source, Yowie founder Shannon Maldonado; Zeynep Orbay, Amsterdam-based creative director for Wieden+Kennedy; as well as Odd Mart, a local “store of the strange” and epicenter for new approaches to comics and illustration.

Expanded programming includes workshops exploring the possibilities of creating tangible, physical forms using digital learning, breaking past the unadventurous inherent in AI writing, and collaborating with printers to discover new processes. In addition, a guest-edited series on the Walker Reader by Unknown Unknowns explores the perpetually mutating relationship between physical and digital publishing.

Copresented by the Walker Art Center and AIGA Minnesota.

Poster printing provided by Shapco.

Shannon Maldonado, Yowie
A cluttered table with papers, glue, flowers, and people crafting and cutting out magazine images.

Wed, Mar 5, 2025

Talks and Lectures

Shannon Maldonado, Yowie

Zeynep Orbay, Wieden+Kennedy
A hand with gold nails holds a mango with cocktail ingredients printed on its skin, above more mangoes.

Wed, Mar 12, 2025

Talks and Lectures

Zeynep Orbay, Wieden+Kennedy

Actual Source
A set of ten colorful film script books standing upright in a row on a white background.

Wed, Mar 19, 2025

Talks and Lectures

Actual Source

Odd Mart
An illustration of a monster.

Wed, Mar 26, 2025

Talks and Lectures

Odd Mart

Experimenting with Analog Forms and Online Systems
Two books titled Reading Like a Computer and Seeing Like a Computer with eye illustrations on the covers.

Sat, Mar 29, 2025

Workshops

Experimenting with Analog Forms and Online Systems

Designer and Printer Collaborations
A hand pointing to a graph of some kind on a table

Sat, Apr 5, 2025

Workshops

Designer and Printer Collaborations