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.
2019Bráulio Amado
(B.A.D. Studio)
2018Greg Hoffman
(Nike, Inc.)
2017Andy Rementer
2015April Greiman
2007Lorraine Wild
2006Bill Grant (Grant Design Collaborative)
2006Richard Boynton & Scott Thares (Wink)
2005Masamichi Udagawa & Sigi Moeslinger (Antenna Design)
Archive
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 DeMartino
2002
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 Szyhalski
1997
Alicia Johnson & Hal Wolverton
J.otto Seibold
J. Abbott Miller
Andrea Moed
1996
Tucker Viemeister
Samina Qureashi
P. Scott Makela
Duane Michaels
1995
Emily Oberman & Bonnie Siegler
Matthew Carter
Randall Rothenberg
John Plunkett & Barbara Kuhr
1994
Dana Arnett
Rick Poynor
Michael Bierut
Nancy Skolos
1993
Fo Wilson
Massimo Vignelli
Judy Corcoran
Peter Goode & Patrick McCaughey
1992
John Jay
Chip Kidd
Jilly Simmons
Kent Hunter
Steven Doyle
1991
Katherine McCoy
Joe Duffy
Rudy Vanderlans
Kit Hinrichs
Steven Heller
1990
Alexander Isley
Michael Bierut
Pat Gorman
Judy Olausen
Stormi Greener
Lynn Geesman
1989
Tibor Kalman
Philip Larsen
Paula Scher
Stephen Frykholm
1988
Lorraine Wild
Keith Goddard
Clement Mok
Dugald Stermer
1987
Muriel Cooper
Douglas Scott
Bill Stumpf
Steven Heller
1986
Paul Prejza
Christopher Pullman
Peter Seitz
Jayme Odgers