'Insights' Lecture Series at the Walker

Tuesdays in March '11

Minneapolis

This March, the Walker Art Centre celebrate 25 years of Insights, one of the Walker’s longest-running partnerships. The series brings leading designers and critics from down the street and around the world to the Twin Cities to share the thinking, methods, and processes behind their work.

This year's schedule includes:

Kevin Quealy- Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Kevin Quealy is a member of the New York Times graphics department, a 25-person team of visual journalists that explain, illustrate and contextualize the news for the newspaper and nytimes.com. Kevin has helped create some of the Times' best-known graphics, including visualizations of the 2010 Congressional elections, the interactive "Budget Puzzle" and many others. The department has won many national and international awards, including the National Design Award for Communication Design.

Michael Hart- Tuesday, March 8, 2011

After successful careers at leading ad agencies, Michael Hart, Chris Lange, and James Scott founded Minneapolis-based Mono, a firm specializing in inventive communication solutions for a variety of clients, including Herman Miller, Apple, Blu Dot, Airstream, and USA Network. Mono was named Small Agency of the Year by Advertising Age in 2010.

James Goggin- Tuesday, March 15, 2011

James Goggin established Practise, a London-based studio that garnered acclaim for its work with clients such as Tate Modern, Channel 4, Artangel, and the Design Museum. He was art director of the British music magazine The Wire, has served as tutor at the Werkplaats Typografie in the Netherlands and at ECAL in Switzerland, and has written for publications such as Dot, Dot, Dot. In 2010, Goggin became director of design, print, and digital media at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art.

Julie Beeler- Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Since 1994, Julie Beeler, cofounder of Portland, Oregon’s Second Story, has become a leading developer of unique interactive solutions for a variety of clients. Known for its technical savvy and ability to craft compelling stories into immersive experiences, Second Story has won numerous awards and critical acclaim for its interactive installations, websites, motion graphics, and three-dimensional visualizations.

Casey Caplowe- Tuesday, March 29, 2011

A three-time finalist for the National Magazine Awards, Good is a diverse enterprise with a printed magazine, a Web platform, and a convener of events. With the tagline, “For People Who Give a Damn,” Good has become a catalyst for more socially engaged thinking around issues of health, food, the environment, and design. The Los Angeles–based Casey Caplowe is a cofounder of Good and serves as creative director.

These lectures will be webcast live and archived on the Walker Channel.