Ryan Gerald Nelson

Dinamo, winners of a 2017 Swiss Design Award for their eclectic body of type design, is the multifaceted practice of Johannes Breyer and Fabian Harb. Their typefaces—such as Favorit, Galapagos, and Ginto—are hits among graphic designers around the globe. Yet Dinamo has created a community and following for themselves that goes beyond the typefaces—a result of their efforts to translate their type design thinking into tangible objects through a parallel platform that they call Dinamo Hardware.

Redefine your understanding of graphic design with the Insights Design Lecture Series, presenting four leading designers from around the country: interdisciplinary studio PLAYLAB, INC.; legendary feminist designer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville; Nike’s chief marketing officer Greg Hoffman; and experimental print/digital publishing guru Paul Soulellis.

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.

Draw Down Books and Project No. 8 team up to present These Posters are Fireworks, a poster exhibition in NYC celebrating an impressive range of formal expression from a veritable lineup of graphic makers.

From Al Ruppersberg’s Colby Printing Co. posters, to diffuse sky radiation, to iridescent clouds, to photoelasticity and many more. In honor of this online publishing initiative that we call The Gradient, the following attempts to survey anything and everything related to the edgeless and ever-shifting phenomenon we know as the gradient.

Andrew Lister and Matthew Stuart of Bricks from the Kiln (BFTK) sit down with Paul Bailey (an Irish graphic designer, educator, and researcher based in London) to discuss the underlying approach and framings that have surfaced within BFTK and that are actively shaping an editorial direction and publishing practice for Andrew and Matthew.

A conversation with Geneva-based designer Mathieu Christe about precision, his collaborations, looking back on the history of Swiss type design, inventing a portmanteau, the study of typewriter typefaces in criminal investigations, affordable means of publishing, and what to expect in the forthcoming issue of Mathieu’s new type design periodical Footnotes.

Timo Gaessner of Milieu Grotesque, a Zurich-based independent publisher and distributor of typefaces, responds to ten questions regarding his and Alexander Colby’s practice as type designers. Timo, who made his start as a graphic designer, frames-out a healthy introspection (and even, at times, cautionary observation) of the discipline of graphic design and it’s interlaced relationship to type design.

Eric Hu and Harry Gassel of Talk Magazine share their opening essay from Issue 2, titled “Some Politics on Style.” Issue 2 of Talk Magazine “gathers a hodgepodge of writers, artists, designers, (and in this particular issue, comedians) to examine style and its effects on larger cultural forces” and which “continues [the] discussion about the politics of style.”