2017 Insights
Design Lecture Series
Tuesdays in March 7:00pm cst
Insights is a design lecture series for progressive creatives. A unique collaboration
between the Walker Art Center and AIGA Minnesota for over three decades, Insights embraces
the unexpected to present diverse, exploratory, and contemporary lecturers.
Featuring perspectives from around the world, Insights avoids TED-style talks and portfolio
presentations in favor of giving voice to adventurous design thinkers and makers. These
designers often pose challenges and push the edges of their profession, in turn inspiring us to
identify new perspectives in our own work.
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Host a Viewing Party
Can’t make it to the Walker? Whether you’re a design studio, a student group, or an AIGA
chapter, hosting a viewing party is a great (free) way to provide inspiration to your people with
engaging talks that will spark thoughtful conversations and an energetic exchange of ideas.
Live webcasts are a great way
to offer free programming.
Julie Beeler (2013),
Aaron Draplin (2012) and
Geoff McFetridge (2013) are just
some of the designers who have
taken the stage at Insights.
For AIGA Chapters
Looking for an intriguing event to supplement your chapter programming? Insights
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viewing parties are an easy way to bring in world-class design for no cost at all.
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a perfect way to introduce members to diverse designers and ideas.
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Host a student group viewing or incorporate these lectures into your curriculum. The — a monitor or projector and speakers
designers we present do what they do with passion and conviction, and represent a
culture of self-initiated and self-critical design practice.
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Participate in the lecture, live. Tweet your questions for our speakers at #insights17 — A few minutes before the start
during the lecture and our moderator will select a few for the speakers. Make sure
to include where you’re watching from.
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If you plan on hosting an Insights viewing party, we want to hear about it! Send an — From there, navigate to the event’s
email to
[email protected] and tell us who you are and what you’re up to. If
you take photos during your event, we’ll post them to the Walker design blog after Facebook Live feed
the series.
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Insights Archives
Check out the growing archive of past Insights design lectures at the Walker — Tweet questions at #insights17
Channel, channel.walkerart.org.
This is a live webcast and may not be recorded. Videos will be
archived on channel.walkerart.org a few days after the events.
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Rob Giampietro
Insights Design Lecture
Tuesday
Rob Giampietro is the Creative Lead and Design Manager at Google Design
as well as a designer, writer, and professor.
What can interaction designers learn from a stonecutter? How can design be under-
stood as an act of translation? How might the Sapir Whorf hypothesis apply to content
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management systems? When must we learn to unbuild, instead of building? Designer and
writer Rob Giampietro lives these questions, consistently drawing connections between
disparate design fields over the course of his diverse career. In his current position as
creative lead and design manager for Google (New York), Giampietro’s mission is to
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infuse an appreciation for design into Google’s culture, and by extension, the company’s
billions of users. He and his team are responsible for communicating major Google design
initiatives, such as Material Design (Google’s expansive interface program, inspired by
tangible interactions with paper, light, layering, and movement) and Google Fonts (their
open-source collection of digital typefaces).
Before joining Google, Giampietro spent much of his career inhabiting the art and cul-
ture sectors, designing for cultural institutions, and writing about design in both pragmatic Walker Art Center Cinema
and esoteric ways, often commissioned by independent visual culture journals such as
Dot Dot Dot, Mousse Magazine, and Kaleidoscope. From 2010 through 2015, Rob was a
Principal partner at renowned New York design studio Project Projects where he headed
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up many of their interactive initiatives; and between 2003 and 2008, he led his own firm, bit.ly/insights17
Giampietro+Smith, creating work for clients such as Knoll, Target, and others. For his
Insights lecture, Giampietro will give us a glimpse into his idiosyncratic synthesis of design
ideologies while offering a look into the evolving design culture at Google. Speaker Q&A
design.google.com linedandunlined.com
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Andy Rementer
Insights Design Lecture
Tuesday
Andy Rementer is an illustrator and painter whose work has been featured in a
number of high-profile brands and publications, from Apartamento magazine
to the New York Times, Wired to Lacoste.
Rementer honed his particular style while studying at Fabrica in Treviso, Italy. He has
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stated in interviews that his color-blindness inevitably brings him back to his frequently
used bright hues, no matter how hard he tries to adopt a muted palette. This has become
vital to his output—the pastel and poppy color schemes camouflaging the prevalence of
loneliness, isolation, and ambivalence in his work.
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His projects often subvert or expand their intended format, whether a furniture
catalogue masquerading as a comic book or a set of postage stamps that investigates
the decidedly un-epistolary phenomenon of online dating. Rementer will talk us through
his practice and give us a glimpse into his collaborations with some of the world’s most
celebrated brands. Walker Art Center Cinema
andyrementer.com
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Speaker Q&A
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Office of Culture & Design /
Hardworking Goodlooking
Insights Design Lecture
Tuesday
The Office of Culture and Design, a studio based in Manila, is a social practice plat-
form for artists, designers, writers, and assorted projects in the developing world.
How can the act of publishing be democratized in developing countries? How can local vernacu-
lars be celebrated in the face of globalized aesthetics? What is the cultural significance of EXTREME
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DROP SHADOWS? The Office of Culture and Design is a studio based in Manila, led by artist Clara
Balaguer. Running in parallel to the OCD, Hardworking Goodlooking is a publishing and design practice
Clara leads with designer Kristian Henson. Balaguer describes the OCD as “a social practice platform
for artists, designers, writers & assorted projects in the developing world.” With their wide network
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of collaborators, Balaguer and Henson embrace contemporary art and design as necessary tools for
progress with the hopes of affecting real change. This occurs by way of social innovation experiments,
workshops, conferences, events, and feasts. Projects include product development initiatives designed
to enhance the livelihoods of Filipino craftsmen as well as microgrants that they receive and redistribute.
Frequently produced in cottage industry presses in the streets of Manila and utilizing the most
DIY production values, Hardworking Goodlooking’s books embody the uncertain and insecure task
that authors face, when trying to self publish critical content in the developing world. They also lead Walker Art Center Cinema
book-making workshops in which they teach people how to edit, design, and print their own books in a
week or less, using inexpensive and readily available tools.
In their lecture, Balaguer and Henson will present case studies from their practice thus far, and
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discuss the fraught and fractured history of Filipino graphic design, which Balaguer recently wrote about bit.ly/insights17
in her essay “Tropico Vernacular” for Triple Canopy magazine.
officeocd.com Speaker Q&A
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Richard Turley
Insights Design Lecture
Tuesday
Wherever Richard Turley goes, he figures out a way to not have to play by the
rules. Best known as the art director who reimagined Bloomberg Business-
week magazine as an edgy, design-forward publication, Turley recently ended
a stint as MTV’s first senior vice president of visual storytelling and deputy
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editorial director.
At MTV Turley oversaw a horde of designers whose basic mission was to create
“strategic anarchy,” personifying the corporation’s desire for self-critique and, in his
words, “de-brand”-ing the network. The studio generated new TV idents and bumps on a
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daily basis, using whatever content they felt was appropriate as long as it was immediate
and of the moment. Turley has described the approach as a form of social media, simply
executed through the channel of a broadcast network. The segments range from abstract
chaos to surreal mundanity, live social media conversations with viewers to bluntly worded
statements directly responding to current events. Walker Art Center Cinema
In his new position as executive creative director of content and editorial design at
Wieden + Kennedy, Turley will bring his unique talent for visualizing ideas to the world of
branding. Free Facebook Live Webcast
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