For more than 30 years, the Walker Art Center and AIGA Minnesota have collaborated to bring leading design thinkers to the Twin Cities for the annual Insights Design Lecture Series. These designers are imagining new ways of working, redefining their respective industries, and in some cases, forging entirely new futures for design. Watch their lectures below, and find more conversations on contemporary design at the Walker’s online publication, the the Walker Reader.
WATCH THE TALKS
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2025Shannon Maldonado, Yowie
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2025Zeynep Orbay, Wieden+Kennedy
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2025Actual Source
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2025Odd Mart
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2025Unknown Unknowns
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2025Designer and Printer Collaborations
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2024Alex Lin
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2024Leila Taylor
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2024DIA Studio
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2024Twin Cities Zine Fest
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2024Temporary Services
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2023Grupa Ee
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2023Extreme Noise Records
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2023Angela Washko
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2023Serifcan Ozcan
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2023WeShouldDoItAll (WSDIA)
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2023Prem Krishnamurthy
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2022Tracy Ma
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2022Danielle Aubert
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2022Wael Morcos &
Jonathan Key -
2022Piotr Szyhalski
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2021Eric Timothy Carlson &
Aaron Anderson -
2021Heather Dewey-Hagborg &
Chelsea Manning -
2021Daniel DeSure
(Total Luxury Spa/Commonwealth Projects) -
2020Ruben Pater
(Untold Stories) -
2020Leland Maschmeyer
(Chobani) -
2019Forest Young
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2019Bráulio Amado
(B.A.D. Studio)
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2019Mirko Borsche
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2019Gail Bichler
(New York Times Magazine) -
2018Archie Lee Coates IV
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2018Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
(Yale University/SheilaStudio) -
2018Greg Hoffman
(Nike, Inc.) -
2018Paul Soulellis
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2017Rob Giampietro
(Google Design) -
2017Andy Rementer
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2017Clara Balaguer and Kristian Henson
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2017Richard Turley
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2016Sulki and Min Choi
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2016Brian Roettinger
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2016Jon Sueda
(Stripe S.F.) -
2016Susan Sellers
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2015Andrew Blauvelt
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2015April Greiman
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2015K-HOLE
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2015Bart de Baets
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2015James Langdon
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2014Lance Wyman
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2014Sara De Bondt
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2014Martine Syms
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2014Henrik Nygren
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2013Geoff McFetridge (Champion Studio)
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2013Eike König (Hort)
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2013Job Wouters (Letman)
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2013Luna Maurer (Moniker)
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2012Aaron Draplin (Draplin Design Company)
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2012Khoi Vinh (Lascaux Co.)
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2012Michael Lejeune
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2012David Pearson
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2011Kevin Quealy (New York Times)
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2011Michael Hart (Mono)
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2011James Goggin (Practise)
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2011Julie Beeler (Second Story Interactive)
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2011Casey Caplowe (Good)
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2010Eddie Opara
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2010Peter Buchanan-Smith (Best Made Co.)
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2010Irma Boom
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2010Stefan G. Bucher (344 Design)
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2009Eric Olson & Nicole Dotin (Process Type Foundry)
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2009David Reinfurt
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2009Marieke Stolk & Danny van den Dungen (Experimental Jetset)
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2009Ellen Lupton
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2008Marian Bantjes
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2008Alejandro Quinto & Lorraine Gauthier (Work Worth Doing)
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2008Prem Krishnamurthy & Adam Michaels (Project Projects)
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2008Ed Fella
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2007Daniel Eatock
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2007Stuart Bailey, Michael Bierut & Debbie MIllman
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2007Lorraine Wild
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2007Jop van Bennekom
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2006Bill Grant (Grant Design Collaborative)
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2006Richard Boynton & Scott Thares (Wink)
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2006Armand Mevis & Linda van Deursen (Mevis & Van Deursen)
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2006Chip Kidd
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2005Masamichi Udagawa & Sigi Moeslinger (Antenna Design)
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2005 Maureen Mooren & Daniel van der Velden (MM&DVDD)
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2005 Paul Sahre (The Office of Paul Sahre)
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2005 John Christakos and Maurice Blanks (Blu Dot Design)
1986–2004
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2004
Paula Scher (Pentagram)
Michael Byzewski & Dan Ibarra (Aesthetic Apparatus)
Scott Stowell (Open)
Thomas Castro, Jeroen Barendse & Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen (LUST)
Andrew Stevens (Graphic Thought Facility)2003
Jessica Helfand & William Drenttel (Winterhouse)
Rick Valicenti (Thirst & Thirstype)
Thomas Widdershoven (Thonik)
Charles S. Anderson & Laurie DeMartino2002
Janet Abrams (Design Institute, UMN)
Lisa Strausfeld (Pentagram)
Jonathan Hoefler & Tobias Frere-Jones
Michael Rock (2×4)2001
John Maeda
Wolfgang Weingart
Jennifer Sterling
Geoff McFetridge (Champion Graphics)
Denise Gonzales Crisp -
2000
Mikon van Gastel (Imaginary Forces)
Cornel Windlin
Aura Oslapas (IDEO)
Gael Towey (Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia)1999
Why Not Associates
Susan Yelavich
Elliott Peter Earls (The Apollo Program)
Marlene McCarty (Bureau)1998
Lauralee Alben
James Victore
ReVerb
Piotr Szyhalski1997
Alicia Johnson & Hal Wolverton
J.otto Seibold
J. Abbott Miller
Andrea Moed1996
Tucker Viemeister
Samina Qureashi
P. Scott Makela
Duane Michaels -
1995
Emily Oberman & Bonnie Siegler
Matthew Carter
Randall Rothenberg
John Plunkett & Barbara Kuhr1994
Dana Arnett
Rick Poynor
Michael Bierut
Nancy Skolos1993
Fo Wilson
Massimo Vignelli
Judy Corcoran
Peter Goode & Patrick McCaughey1992
John Jay
Chip Kidd
Jilly Simmons
Kent Hunter
Steven Doyle1991
Katherine McCoy
Joe Duffy
Rudy Vanderlans
Kit Hinrichs
Steven Heller -
1990
Alexander Isley
Michael Bierut
Pat Gorman
Judy Olausen
Stormi Greener
Lynn Geesman1989
Tibor Kalman
Philip Larsen
Paula Scher
Stephen Frykholm1988
Lorraine Wild
Keith Goddard
Clement Mok
Dugald Stermer1987
Muriel Cooper
Douglas Scott
Bill Stumpf
Steven Heller1986
Paul Prejza
Christopher Pullman
Peter Seitz
Jayme Odgers
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