Aryn Beitz

“My first question was how might the concept of tracing become a conceptual thread that would formally tie the book together?” Aryn Beitz shares a behind-the-scenes look at the process that birthed the intricately layered, 448-page exhibition catalogue for Siah Armajani: Follow This Line, now on view at the Met Breuer.

“Reading is a civic act. As much as we are suckers for the oral, the written word manages to constitute a social body in ways too often lacking today: a rigor in terms of focus, a polyphony of voices.” In conversation with designer Aryn Beitz, the Berlin-based art collective Slavs and Tatars discusses its contributions to the Siah Armajani: Follow This Line exhibition and catalogue, both of which strive to attain what it claims Armajani has mastered: the ability to engage and create a public by suggesting reading, without actually requiring it.

Introducing Found/Seen, a series in which members of the Walker’s Design Department share their findings—be they noteworthy for their content, unusual in format, or simply beautiful in form—from the Walker’s Library and Archives.

After spending six months as a fellow at the American Academy in Rome researching and experimenting with Bruno Munari’s product-artwork, the Tetracano, David Reinfurt reflects on his research and how the Tetracono can act as a model for thinking through larger questions surrounding design, art, and the fertile grey areas in between.

Through its raw and candid, yet carefully composed memes, Screen Saviors has managed to poke fun at the idea that design can save the world while generating a compelling discourse on the design industry, contemporary culture, and the weird things that make designers tick.