Andrew Blauvelt

As head of the Design Studio at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, ANDREW BLAUVELT is one of the most influential figures in US graphic design both as a practising designer and as a creative director commissioning other designers' work.
Ever since the 1930s, design has played a critical role in the development of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Every element of design at the Walker – from its design exhibitions to functional graphics like signage - is co-ordinated by the Design Studio under the Walker’s design director Andrew Blauvelt.
Regarded as a role model for best practise in design, the Design Studio at the Walker Art Center has won more than fifty design awards and was nominated in 2001 for the Chrysler Award for Innovation. With a staff of six full-time designers, two editors and two interns, it is responsible for everything from exhibition catalogues to monthly calendars and invitations.
Blauvelt and his team also collaborate frequently with specialists in different fields, notably Matthew Carter, the acclaimed typographer whose Walker typeface, created specially for the Walker Art Center, is not only renowned for its pleasing appearance and legibility but is seen as one of the most innovative typefaces of the 1990s.